By: Prem Tiwari | Last Updated: | In: WordPress, WordPress Beginners, WordPress Snippets
If you want to create some demo pages OR Posts during your custom wordpress theme installation, then you can use the wp_insert_post() function inside your functions.php file.
Open functions.php file of your theme’s folder and copy paste below code at the end of the file. Below code will create a new page when code will execute. And of course It will be work for POST and other custom post type. You need to change 'post_type' => 'post'.
wp_insert_post function will returns the ID of the newly-created page or post in $new_page_id variable. If it will occure an error, it will return 0 in $new_page_id variable.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 | <?php //define your page content in below array $new_page = array( 'slug' => 'this-is-my-new-page', 'title' => 'Write a Headline that Captivates', 'content' => "Enter the body Content for your Page here" ); $new_page_id = wp_insert_post( array( 'post_title' => $new_page['title'], 'post_type' => 'page', 'post_name' => $new_page['slug'], 'comment_status' => 'closed', 'ping_status' => 'closed', 'post_content' => $new_page['content'], 'post_status' => 'publish', 'post_author' => 1, 'menu_order' => 0 )); ?> |
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Prem Tiwari is the founder of FreeWebMentor.com and also a professional developer who has vast experience in PHP and open source technologies. Apart from this, he is a blogger by hobby and also he has been a regular speaker of WordPress sessions in various IT Companies. View all posts by Prem Tiwari
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