My theme uses a custom template to render some contents. To use this template, I’m hooking into after_switch_theme
to create my own page after the theme is activated, and then assign this template to it.
This is how I do it:
$new_page_title = __('Custom page');
$new_page_content="";
$new_page_template="page-custom.php";
$page_check = get_page_by_title($new_page_title);
$new_page = array(
'post_type' => 'page',
'post_title' => $new_page_title,
'post_content' => $new_page_content,
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post_author' => 1,
'post_slug' => 'my-custom-slug'
);
if( !isset($page_check->ID) ){
$new_page_id = wp_insert_post($new_page);
if(!empty($new_page_template)){
update_post_meta($new_page_id, '_wp_page_template', $new_page_template);
}
}
However, the page’s slug is always following the title. It means, the slug is always custom-page
. Seems like wp_insert_post()
doesn’t support post slug, since there isn’t any in the code reference.
I need to set the slug since the page’s title is something very popular, and there might be another page with the same slug already existing.
How can I do this?
The parameter to insert a custom slug is:
'post_name' => 'my-custom-slug'
Not post_slug
as one would think! 🙂