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evbailey
evbailey

Reputation: 371

Wordpress hook to pre-populate the content field on post-new.php?

I'm writing a plugin which will help administrate a question-answer database. 'Candidate' questions are stored in a custom DB, and I'm working on a function by which a user can promote a db question to a fully fledged knowledgebase article (custom post type).

I'd like to populate the content field on post-new.php based on the content of my $_POST data, so a user can click a 'promote' link associated with a candidate and have the information already there.

What's the appropriate filter hook to use for this, or is there a better way?

*Edited title for clarity

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1481

Answers (3)

amstegraf
amstegraf

Reputation: 597

I think you need to hook into default_content like this

add_filter( 'default_content', 'my_editor_content' );
function my_editor_content( $content ) {

   $content = "This is my default content!";

   return $content;
}

as stated here

Upvotes: 0

evbailey
evbailey

Reputation: 371

It turns out the filter hook I was looking for is the_editor_content, which will (as its name suggests) let me manipulate the content that gets placed in the editor.

Upvotes: 1

Cups
Cups

Reputation: 6896

Not exactly sure I have grasped your point, but if the difference between an Q and A entry and a KB entry is more than just a flag in the table, eg it is a largely a copy operation from one table to another: Couldnt you simply use Mysqls INSERT INTO ability? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/insert-select.html which is triggered by the user posting back just the id of the Q and A article?

Upvotes: 1

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