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WP Auto Post Client is a simple API client library written in PHP which allows creating new posts programatically by using Wordpress REST API, without the need to login to the dashboard.

Requirements

• Nginx/Apache server configured with PHP 7.4 or higher
• Composer package manager
• Working installation of Wordpress 5.6 or later with the support for Application Passwords. Follow this link to learn how to obtain an application password. If you can't see the application passwords section at the bottom of your wordpress user profile, you may have to enable it manually.

Installation

composer require ak86/wp-auto-post

Basic Usage

// Require composer autoloader
require_once '/path/to/vendor/autoload.php';

// Import the library
use Ak86\WPAutoPost;

// Set required config vars
$wp_post_endpoint = 'http://yourwordpresssite/wp-json/wp/v2/posts';
$wp_media_endpoint = 'http://yourwordpresssite/wp-json/wp/v2/media';
$wp_auth_username = 'your_wordpress_username';
$wp_auth_password = 'your_wordpress_application_password';

// Initialize the client instance
$wpap_client = new WPAutoPost($wp_post_endpoint, $wp_media_endpoint, $wp_auth_username, $wp_auth_password);

// creating a new post: set post image url 
$imageUrl = 'http://url/to/image.jpg';

// creating a new post: upload the image
$uploaded_image = $wpap_client->upload_image($imageUrl);

// creating a new post: set post data
$postData = array(
    "title" => 'Sample Post Title',
    "content" => 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit ...',
    "status" => "publish"
);

// creating a new post: submit post data
$wpap_client->add_wp_post($postData, $uploaded_image->id);

Example App

Please checkout below repository for a functional demo project showing how to use this library.

https://github.com/amilak86/wp-auto-post-demo

License

MIT

Author

Amila Kalansooriya

References

• https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/
• https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/11/05/application-passwords-integration-guide/
• https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/383244/application-passwords-not-working-on-localhost