Creating WordPress Pages on the fly.

WordPress Pages on the fly

Ever wanted to create WordPress pages pragmatically? Here’s how.

Recently while developing WordPress plugins I have found the need to create posts and pages for “special content”. Such as action pages or posts for external APIs.

This is done using the wp_insert_post() function (full spec here). To set up a basic post is really very simple and can be done using the following code:

$args = array(
  'post_type' => 'page', //the post type. Default Post
  'post_title'    => 'Post Title', //The title of the post or page
  'post_content'  => 'This is my post.', //The content of the post or page
  'post_status'   => 'publish', //The status
  'post_author'   => 1 //The author, 1 is generally the ID of the site creator
);

// Finally create the post
wp_insert_post( $args );

That’s it all done! Tip: Very usefully shortcodes can be added in the post/page content at the time of creation:

'post_content'  => '[my-shortcode]'