wp_insert_post ADD post_meta data

  • This is a cutdown version of the code I am using to pull data from a database and insert into WP as a post

    <?php

require('wp-blog-header.php');

$post_title = $title;
$post_status = 'publish';
$post_date= current_time('mysql');
$post_date_gmt= current_time('mysql', 1);
$post_author=1;

$post_content="Blahblahblah";

$category_slug = $country; 

$post_category=array($category_ID);

$tags_input= array($mytags);

$post_data = compact('post_content','post_title','post_date','post_date_gmt','post_author','post_category', 'post_status', 'tags_input');
$post_data = add_magic_quotes($post_data);
$post_ID = wp_insert_post($post_data);

if ( is_wp_error( $post_ID ) )
echo "\n" . $post_ID->get_error_message();
}
?>

    My question is…

    I now need to populate a custom data field in wp_postmeta

    Custom field will be called “photourl” and data held in script as $picurl

    Is there an easy way of doing this ?

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  • Thread Starter supahoopsa

    (@supahoopsa)

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    Is his harder than I’d imagined

    I was looking around for modifying the date properly on inserting posts and found this old post. I hope you figured it out! But if not, it is very simple and all you need is the post id and you get it wit the above code.

    $post_ID will be the post id from the code above and to update post meta just do this

    update_post_meta($post_ID, 'custom_field_name', $custom_field_item);

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