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Kevin Lee
Kevin Lee

Reputation: 1089

How do I make a custom post interface in Wordpress?

my wordpress blog is about musics, and everytime i post a music in my blog i follow the same routine which is very tiresome. So I want to know how can i speed up the process.

Here's my routine when I'm posting new music to my blog:

  1. Go to Media and upload a new picture for the new music.
  2. Go to the background post type, and create a new background post type for the new music.
  3. go to Posts->add new and attach the previously created background post type and the picture to this post and publish the post after inputting details for this new music.

So these 3 steps are very tiring, because each time i add a new music in my blog i need to follow 3 steps. i want to know if there's a way to put all these steps in one page, this page will have input boxes for media, background post type and add new post.

Please tell me how i can do this. thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 546

Answers (1)

Gundars Mēness
Gundars Mēness

Reputation: 498

Well, you could have a plugin, in admin panel form with fields like browse for media, post type, additional image browse etc. Then have some dynamic function, which takes this form data in variable and on $_POST creates post/registers metas/media etc. using built in worpress functions.

Might also look at template feature of wordpress, might use it in plugin help with the background thing.

This is just an example of using Wordpress built in functions to create post:

<?php
function create_posts_from_serialized_array() {

//Inyour case it will be $_POST not these two lines
$dude_wheresmyarray = 'LOCATION OF YOUR UNSERIALISED ARRAY'; //Dude, where's my array?
$original_array = unserialize (file_get_contents($dude_wheresmyarray));      // Load array

// Create categories, return variables containg newly created category ids

$category = array('cat_ID' => '', 'cat_name'=> utf8_encode('Cat1'), 'category_description' => '', 'category_nicename' => 'cat1', 'category_parent' => '');          $cat_id10 = wp_insert_category($category, true);

$aid = 0; //foreach array begin with 0 and ++ later on

foreach ($original_array as $each_array) {

/*
* Variable for new post on left, variable from $original_array on right
*/
$new_post_title = $original_array[$aid]['title'];
$new_post_content = $original_array[$aid]['description'];
$new_category = $original_array[$aid]['category'];
$new_name = $original_array[$aid]['name'];
$new_address = $original_array[$aid]['address'];
$new_phone = $original_array[$aid]['phone'];
$new_web = $original_array[$aid]['web'];
$new_mail = $original_array[$aid]['mail'];

if ($new_category == 'a')    {$assign_cat = $cat_id1;}

/*
* UPDATE POST
*/

$my_post = array();
$my_post['ID'] = ''; // Integer here WORKS ONLY IF THERE ALREADY IS A POST WITH THAT ID!
$my_post['post_type']      = 'post';
$my_post['post_title']      = utf8_encode($new_post_title);
$my_post['post_content']  = utf8_encode($new_post_content);
$my_post['post_status']   = 'publish';
$my_post['post_author']   = 1;
$my_post['post_category'] = array($assign_cat);

$pid = wp_update_post( $my_post ); //Update post, return new post ID

/*
* UPDATE META
*/

update_post_meta($pid, 'name',      utf8_encode($new_name));
update_post_meta($pid, 'address',   utf8_encode($new_address));
update_post_meta($pid, 'phone',     $new_phone);
update_post_meta($pid, 'web',       $new_web);
update_post_meta($pid, 'mail',      $new_mail);

$aid ++; //loopidy loopin

}
}

?>

Upvotes: 1

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