Reply To: Add default Fields to Post programmatically

• MarcoAtMoon

• May 13, 2020 at 5:59 pm

I tried something else because I don’t want to create such a big wall of code for this task.

I have started with a empty post that is my template for this task. Then I get all the meta info with get_post_meta(template-post). Now I can add everything again to the new post that I created programmatically.

Because I also don’t want to have a empty post inside WordPress I exported the results from get_post_meta()to a .json file. Now I use it as a template. This is my code for this task.

// Insert the post into the database.
$post = wp_insert_post( $new_post );
//add meta template to new post
$templateJson = json_decode( file_get_contents(get_theme_file_path('/json-templates/v1.json')));
foreach ($templateJson As $metaKey => $metaValue) {
    $value = $metaValue[0];
    add_post_meta($post, $metaKey, $value);
}