Oh, I just now got another request that would benefit from the same thing.

We are using “MailPress” for mailings, and it can generate automatic newsletters based on site updates. But it will probably ignore EME events?

If ordinary posts were triggered (mimicking the EME events) then MailPress, too, would be able to pick up on them and turn them into “newsletters”.

Well, I managed to have a test WP post get generated by the end of function eme_db_insert_event in eme_events.php . First try, too. Maybe I should be using eme_insert_event_action instead.

But I really do NOT like mucking with the EME source code, because I don’t know what I’m doing. 🙁

Oh, wait, I can use your hook to call my wp_insert_post code? Why didn’t I think of that. Thank you!

But before I saw your reply, after a lot of testing I had come up with a good place to put code in eme_events.php , towards the bottom of the “// UPDATE or CREATE action” section, so that it affects BOTH inserts and updates. Right before the wpdb query section, as shown below.

But for some reason the only fields that will pass through in practice are event_name and event_notes. I really want to get event_id passed but it’s not happening. But I was able to create a new WP category “Shadow EME Events” and automatically assign these new shadow posts to it. 🙂

$feedback_message = __('You have no right to update','eme'). " '" . $tmp_event ['event_name'] . "' !";

}

}

}



// TEST CODE FOR CREATING POST, 8-2012



$new_post = array(

'post_title' => $event ['event_name'],

'post_content' => $event ['event_id'] . $event ['event_name'] . $event ['event_url'] . $event ['location_id'] . $event ['event_notes'],

'post_category' => array( 35 ),

'post_status' => 'publish'

);



$post_id = wp_insert_post($new_post);



// END TEST CODE



//$wpdb->query($sql);

Man, Franky, I have to say you give me exactly the right amount of “tough love”; just enough information to keep me going. 🙂

This is going surprisingly quickly. I’ve changed to using your hooks in functions.php, and event_id IS being passed now, so I was able to craft a meta http-equiv redirect into the “shadow” posts, so they bounce over to their corresponding EME events!

Strangely, the inserted meta tag does NOT appear in the HTML Post Editor. But it’s there.

So far I have it working only with new events. I’m just posting my progress for anyone else who might be interested:

// TEST CODE FOR CREATING POSTS FROM EME (EVENTS MADE EASY) EVENTS, 8-2012

// SEE ALSO PREVIOUS EME-RELATED MODIFICATIONS ABOVE FOR the_excerpt INSTEAD of the_content



add_action('eme_insert_event_action','make_shadow_eme_post');



function make_shadow_eme_post($event_passed) {

$new_post = array(

'post_title' => $event_passed ['event_name'],

// ONE CAN PASS OTHER EME EVENT FIELDS INTO CONTENT, PARTICULARLY $event_passed ['event_notes']

'post_content' => "<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://example.org/events/?event_id=" . $event_passed ['event_id'] . ""> Redirecting to Event Page at <a href="http://example.org/events/?event_id=" . $event_passed ['event_id'] . "">http://example.org/events/?event_id=" . $event_passed ['event_id'] . "</a> ...",

'post_category' => array( 39 ),

'post_status' => 'publish'

);



$post_id = wp_insert_post($new_post);

}

// END TEST CODE - 8-2012

Thank you for the pointers.

Thanks! Well, I eventually added all 4 post cases, and have now incorporated some code to pass a Featured Image from the Event into the new shadow post as well. (This was primarily because Facebook’s “OpenGraph” images don’t work very well or very sanely, especially without a featured image set. I also ended up installing the “Open Graph Protocol” plugin to add more FB OG meta headers.) One tip — Twitter truncates like crazy, so for your URLs to work, keep everything as brief as possible (event titles, shadow post content, etc.).

UPDATED CODE

// TEST CODE FOR CREATING POSTS FROM EME (EVENTS MADE EASY) EVENTS, 8-2012

// SEE ALSO PREVIOUS EME-RELATED MODIFICATIONS ABOVE FOR the_excerpt INSTEAD of the_content

// Included all event action types, calling same post routine, 9/4/2012

// Added featured image code, 9/28/2012



add_action('eme_insert_event_action','make_shadow_eme_post');

add_action('eme_update_event_action','make_shadow_eme_post');

add_action('eme_insert_recurrence_action','make_shadow_eme_post');

add_action('eme_update_event_action','make_shadow_eme_post');



function make_shadow_eme_post($event_passed) {

$new_post = array(

'post_title' => $event_passed ['event_name'],

// One can pass other EME event fields into content, particularly $event_passed ['event_notes']

'post_content' => "<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://example.com/events/?event_id=" . $event_passed ['event_id'] . ""> Redirect to <a href="http://example.com/events/?event_id=" . $event_passed ['event_id'] . "">http://example.com/events/?event_id=" . $event_passed ['event_id'] . "</a> ...",

'post_category' => array( 39 ),

'post_status' => 'publish'

);



$post_id = wp_insert_post($new_post);



// Thumbnail / Featured Image code from Rob Vermeer at http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/40301/how-do-i-set-a-featured-image-thumbnail-by-image-url-when-using-wp-insert-post

$upload_dir = wp_upload_dir();

$image_data = file_get_contents($event_passed ['event_image_url']);

$filename = basename($event_passed ['event_image_url']);

if(wp_mkdir_p($upload_dir['path']))

$file = $upload_dir['path'] . '/' . $filename;

else

$file = $upload_dir['basedir'] . '/' . $filename;

file_put_contents($file, $image_data);



$wp_filetype = wp_check_filetype($filename, null );

$attachment = array(

'post_mime_type' => $wp_filetype['type'],

'post_title' => sanitize_file_name($filename),

'post_content' => '',

'post_status' => 'inherit'

);

$attach_id = wp_insert_attachment( $attachment, $file, $post_id );

require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/image.php');

$attach_data = wp_generate_attachment_metadata( $attach_id, $file );

wp_update_attachment_metadata( $attach_id, $attach_data );



set_post_thumbnail( $post_id, $attach_id );

// END OF ROB VERMEER CODE

}

// END TEST CODE - 9-2012



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(As a byproduct, this is now also adding the EME Event Image to the regular WordPress Media Library, named with its event_id number. I’d prefer to include the event title when it gets added but haven’t figured that out.)