Question

I’m rephrasing my question about creating pages using a WordPress plugin. Hopefully I do a better job.

Most WP plugins instruct the the use to add a page manually and then add a shortcode. This is a very flexible approach in general. BUT, what I’m wondering, is if there’s a way to basically do that for them programmatically. Essentially create a page for them with a specific url e.g “plugin-name/fancy-page” if it doesn’t already exist.

Answer 1

You can do something along the lines of:

$new_page = array();
$new_page['post_title'] = 'Example Page';
$new_page['post_content'] = "Example Page - [shortcode]";
$new_page['post_status'] = 'publish';
$new_page['post_type'] = 'page';

$id = wp_insert_post( $new_page );