Set Facebook wordpress plugin fields while using wp-insert-post

Question

I am using wp-insert-post to create posts dynamically in wordpress. The script is in an external file and I have included the wp-load.php file to make use of the wordpress functions there. My query is that while using the wp-insert-post function, we can make use of the default parameters, but how can we include the parameters that are used by the plugin (Facebook, in this case).

I wish to set this parameter: facebook_page_message_box_message

I tried using:

$post = array();
$post['post_type']     = 'post'; 
$post['post_title']    = 'Custom title';
$post['post_content']  = 'Custom content';
$post['post_author']   = '1';
$post['facebook_page_message_box_message'] = 'Custom Title (to be displayed on the Facebook timeline, when the post is published)';

$post_id = wp-insert-post($post);

But this is not working. I also tried using wordpress functions like, Wp_set_object_terms, but even that didn't work.

The wp-insert-post uses default parameters, why dont you try `add_post_meta` — Vidya L, Feb 19 '15 at 06:06
@VidyaNair I tried using add_post_meta. But that too, didn't work. That's because perhaps, it is used to add 'custom' meta data to a post. What I need here is to set the data which has been used by the Facebook plugin itself. — Pratik Kapasi, Feb 19 '15 at 06:20

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 19 '15 at 06:19

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https://github.com/facebookarchive/wordpress/blob/master/admin/social-publisher/publish-box-page.php

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answered Feb 19 '15 at 06:19

Rakesh Vekariya

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Set Facebook wordpress plugin fields while using wp-insert-post

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