Create WordPress Blog Posts with Python

WordPress provides a powerful REST API that allows developers to interact with their WordPress site programmatically. This means that you can use Python to send requests to your WordPress site and perform various actions, such as creating, updating, and deleting posts.

To get started, you will need to install the requests library in Python, which will allow you to make HTTP requests to the WordPress REST API. You can install the library using pip:

pip install requests

Once you have the requests library installed, you can start interacting with the WordPress REST API. First, you will need to generate an authentication token for your WordPress site.

Login to your WordPress site and go to Users > Profile.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and under Application Passwords, type the name of your application. I used “testapp” in this example

Click on “Add New Application Password” to generate an authentication token

Copy the application password. This will be used within your code for authentication. The code to insert a post looks like this

import requests

# Set your WordPress site URL and authentication credentials
wordpress_url = 'https://doitwithcode.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts'
username = 'username'
password = 'NDsP AaQV 5ppO gGNE wTgD RTqo'

# Create a new post data
post_data = {
    'title': 'Blog Post Title',
    'content': 'Content of Post',
    'status': 'publish'  # You can change the status to 'draft' if you want to save it as a draft
}

# Send POST request to create the post
response = requests.post(
    wordpress_url,
    json=post_data,
    auth=(username, password)
)

# Check the response
if response.status_code == 201:
    print("Post created successfully!")
else:
    print("Failed to create post. Status code:", response.status_code)
    print("Response:", response.text)

Replace the value of the username variable with your actual WordPress username.

For documentation on the WordPress REST API, refer to https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/