Create Post with Meta Field – WP REST API

This is my Ajax Code, all other fields working fine except meta value is not being added in post

jQuery( document ).ready( function ( $ ) {
    $( '#post-submission-form' ).on( 'submit', function(e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        var title = $( '#post-submission-title' ).val();
        var excerpt = $( '#post-submission-excerpt' ).val();
        var content = $( '#post-submission-content' ).val();
        var status = 'draft';
        var meta = array(
                'key' => 'video_url_url',
                'value' =>'abc'
            );

        var data = {
            title: title,
            excerpt: excerpt,
            content: content,
            status: status,
            meta: meta

        };

        $.ajax({
            method: "POST",
            url: POST_SUBMITTER.root + 'wp/v2/posts',
            data: data,
            beforeSend: function ( xhr ) {
                xhr.setRequestHeader( 'X-WP-Nonce', POST_SUBMITTER.nonce );
            },
            success : function( response ) {
                console.log( response );
                alert( POST_SUBMITTER.success );
            },
            fail : function( response ) {
                console.log( response );
                alert( POST_SUBMITTER.failure );
            }

        });

    });

} );

• This reply was modified 7 years, 12 months ago by Mian Shahzad Raza.

Did you register your meta field to be exposed in REST? This must be done to be able to read or write meta data. See Working with Meta & register_meta near the bottom of the page.

Once done, I believe you set the value with var meta = {video_url_url: "abc"};
I’ve yet to set meta values with REST myself, so this is untested and only speculation.

Hi,
Thank you so much, it worked..