Setting a featured image while creating the post

Question

I am creating a post with wp_insert_post/wp_update_post. The post should have a featured image. But to set a featured image I need the postID. The problem is I do not have any postID. What I am doing is. I create a "profile page" for every user. Therefore the user just updates his data in the backend. The post is created automatically out of the data.

I tied things like:

set_post_thumbnail( wp_insert_post($post), $thumbnail_id );

But is does not work. Surprisingly set_post_thumbnail( wp_update_post($post), $thumbnail_id ); works. But in case I want to create a pot the first time, I need wp_insert_post.

I can provide the full code on request. Any ideas?

Thanks and regards Nico

Answer 1

As far as I know you can't add the thumbnail in the first array you send to create the post, you'll need to grab the post ID after the wp_insert_post, then run update_post_meta after the first part of the function.

If you post your function here we might be able to help a little further.