auto-create page upon activation of plugin

  • Ok so I have a plugin that I would like to have automatically create a page on activation, but every piece of code I have tried has yet to work. Every once in a while, it will decide to add the page, but I can never get it to repeat itself. (deleting page, deactivating, then reactivating plugin to test)

    Here are the scenerios I have tried.

    <?php
wp_insert_post( $new_page );

$new_page = array(
'post_title' => 'Employees',
'post_name' => 'employees',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post_type' => 'page',
'post_author' => $user_ID,
'post_parent' => 0,
'menu_order' => 0
);

	//if we have created any new pages, then flush...
	if ( $newpages ) {
		wp_cache_delete( 'all_page_ids', 'pages' );
		$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
	}
  ?>
    <?php
if ($_GET['activated']){

    $new_page_title = 'This is the page title';
    $new_page_content = 'This is the page content';
    $new_page_template = ''; //ex. template-custom.php. Leave blank if you don't want a custom page template.

    //don't change the code bellow, unless you know what you're doing

    $page_check = get_page_by_title($new_page_title);
    $new_page = array(
        'post_type' => 'page',
        'post_title' => $new_page_title,
        'post_content' => $new_page_content,
        'post_status' => 'publish',
        'post_author' => 1,
    );
    if(!isset($page_check->ID)){
        $new_page_id = wp_insert_post($new_page);
        if(isset($new_page_template)){
            update_post_meta($new_page_id, '_wp_page_template', $new_page_template);
        }
    }

}
?>

    And the one wordpress has posted in the codex:

    <?php
// Create post object
  $my_post = array(
     'post_title' => 'My post',
     'post_content' => 'This is my post.',
     'post_status' => 'publish',
     'post_author' => 1,
     'post_category' => array(8,39)
     'post_type' => 'page' /* this actually makes the entire backend to disappear so I have to put it in $defaults=array( for it to reappear. The page doesn't always want to show up though.*/
  );

// Insert the post into the database
  wp_insert_post( $my_post );
?>

    With this last bit, I can get the pages to appear, but posts are also created…I don’t need them!

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  • Thread Starter rcvaughn

    (@rcvaughn)

    Hi rcvaughn!

    Try getting rid of your declaration for ‘post_category’

    From your code above, I see that you’re setting the ‘post_category’ and right below setting the ‘post_type’ to ‘page’. You should eliminate the post_category value as it’s only associated to posts and not pages.

    Declaring this could be why you’re creating both posts and pages, and/or confusing the loop to basically do what it wants.

    I’m developing something similar with this coding so should have some more results to share shortly.

    Hope this helps!

    ~ Shawn

    Hey BorelliDesigns did you ever develop something? I am looking to atuto create page templates for custom post types, but I’m using the Custom Post Type UI. But something should be available because you can make a default template for categories. Anyway, let me know.

    Hi vabmedia!

    For our project we decided just to use shortcodes and create buttons for inserting these though the visual editor.

    Below is an untested code you could use to auto-create pages with a plugin or theme. Basically, you want to create the post/page, then insert it with a global WP function.

    $my_page = array(
	'post_title' => 'Our New Auto-Created Page',
	'post_content' => 'This is a new page. You can add any content you want here, including shortcodes.',
	'post_status' => 'publish',
	'post_type' => 'page',
	'post_author' => 2,
	'post_date' => '2012-08-20 15:10:30'
);

$post_id = wp_insert_post($my_page);

    Check out this post for more info: https://www.problogdesign.com/wordpress/how-to-create-wordpress-posts-in-themesplugins/

    Hope this helps!!
    ~ Shawn

    Thanks Borellidesigns!! Appreciate the code! I’ll try it out

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