Title: Setting post_parent during wp_insert_post
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Setting post_parent during wp_insert_post

 *  [lehket](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lehket/)
 * (@lehket)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-post_parent-during-wp_insert_post/)
 * I’m working on a plugin that creates pages based on searches that are run. I 
   want the new pages to be children of a common results page. For some reason, 
   wp_insert_post is not setting post_parent when pages are created. The relevant
   parts of the code are as follows:
 * class wm_mypost {
    var $post_title; var $post_content; var $post_status; var 
   $post_author; var $post_name; var $post_type; var $post_parent; var $comment_status;
   var $post_category; var $tags_input; }
 * function createPost($searchTerms, $parentID) {
    $wm_mypost = new wm_mypost();
   $wm_mypost->post_title = $searchTerms; $wm_mypost->post_content = “[” . $searchTerms.“]”;
   $wm_mypost->post_status = ‘publish’; $wm_mypost->post_author = 1; $wm_mypost-
   >post_type = ‘page’; $wm_mypost->comment_status = ‘open’; $wm_myPost->post_parent
   = $parentID; $wm_mypost->tags_input = $searchTerms;
 *  $post_ID = wp_insert_post($wm_mypost);
    return $postID; }
 * I’ve verified that $parentID contains the correct value when this function is
   called, but the new page always ends up with a parentID of 0. What am I missing?
   Thanks!

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 *  [rustedwire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rustedwire/)
 * (@rustedwire)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-post_parent-during-wp_insert_post/#post-1152932)
 * Just want to double check the last two lines for you…
 * $post_ID = wp_insert_post($wm_mypost);
    return $postID;
 * You are missing an underscore in return $postID;
 *  Thread Starter [lehket](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lehket/)
 * (@lehket)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-post_parent-during-wp_insert_post/#post-1152952)
 * Oh yeah . . . thanks! I actually caught that, too, sometime after I had posted
   the message. The main problem remains, however. post_parent is not set in the
   database after the call to wp_insert_post, even though it is set in the $wm_mypost
   object.
 *  Thread Starter [lehket](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lehket/)
 * (@lehket)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-post_parent-during-wp_insert_post/#post-1152973)
 * Quick update: I can get post_parent set by first using wp_insert_post() to create
   the page and then wp_update_post() as follows:
 * `
    $my_post = array(); $my_post['ID'] = $post_ID; $my_post['post_parent'] = $
   parentID; wp_update_post($my_post);
 * But this is a workaround for what looks to me like a bug in wp_insert_post().
   So I’m leaving this unresolved at the moment to see if anyone can either (a) 
   point out what I’m doing wrong or (b) confirm that wp_insert_post() really isn’t
   setting post_parent as it should or (c) possibly even indicate that wp_insert_post()
   was never meant to set the post_parent (although that seems unlikely).
 * Thanks again.

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 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [lehket](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lehket/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-post_parent-during-wp_insert_post/#post-1152973)
 * Status: not resolved

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