wp_insert_post() with HTML tags using PHP

Question

This question seem to be unanswered. I find myself stuck on it. Here it goes

I've a problem with WP API to insert a post with HTML Tags.

I'm using the method: wp_insert_post() and the content is like this:

$content = "<p> <img src="img-link"> </p> <p> Hi, this is an example of the content.</p> <a class="dl" href="link-address"> Link Name</a>";

The result I want when I publish the post is:

A formatted post applying the html where necessary.

But the result I have when I publish the post is:

<p> <img src="img-link"> </p> <p> Hi, this is an example of the content.</p> <a class="dl" href="link-address"> Link Name</a>

When I go to the WP Editor to edit the same POST Directly, The Visual Editor looks well formatted as expected

And The then I navigate to Text Editor as see this well formatted too:

<p> <img src="img-link"> </p> <p> Hi, this is an example of the content.</p> <a class="dl" href="link-address"> Link Name</a>

It's quite obvious that this is what I actually want. But When I do this post from my php file as stated earlier, I get this published:

<p> <img src="img-link"> </p> <p> Hi, this is an example of the content.</p> <a class="dl" href="link-address"> Link Name</a>

MY CODE

$content="<p> <img src="img-link"> </p> <p> Hi, this is an example of the content.</p> <a class="dl" href="link-address"> Link Name</a>";

$my_post = array( 
'post_title' => $title, 
'post_status' => 'publish', 
'post_content' => $content,
'post_author' => 1, 
'post_category' => array(8,39)); 

$post_id = wp_insert_post( $my_post );

I HAVE TRIED html_entity_decode($content);

And

remove_filter('content_save_pre', 'wp_filter_post_kses');

remove_filter('content_filtered_save_pre', 'wp_filter_post_kses');

Before Inserting to DB and

add_filter('content_save_pre', 'wp_filter_post_kses');

add_filter('content_filtered_save_pre', 'wp_filter_post_kses');

After The insert

My script only have the wp-load.php loaded.

here is what I get with my real code... it seem it is inside <pre><code> $content </code></pre> for some reason... I really need help with it:

UPDATE: I checked my database and the post includes this line <pre><code> then the post itself </code></pre> And I'm thinking if there's a way to get rid of those It might work pretty well.

Answer 1

Can you try to wrap you wp_insert_post call like bellow:

 kses_remove_filters(); //This Turns off kses
 $post_id = wp_insert_post( $my_post, true );
 kses_init_filters(); //This Turns on kses again

So I tried your code with my method and it perfectly worked. Here is what I did.

$title = "My news";
$content='<p> <img src="img-link"> </p> <p> Hi, this is an example of the content.</p> <a class="dl" href="link-address"> Link Name</a>';

$postData = array(
    'post_title' => $title,
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'post_content' => $content,
    'post_author' => 1,
    'post_type'         =>   'post',
    'post_category' => array()
);

kses_remove_filters();
$id = wp_insert_post($postData);
kses_init_filters();

It worked perfectly as it should. I'm using Twenty Twenty theme with no plugin enabled.