Ruby

WordPress Create Tag

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Demonstrates how to create a new tag in Wordpress, or to find the ID of an existing tag. Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

# This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

http = Chilkat::CkHttp.new()

# Use your WordPress login, such as "admin", not the application name.
http.put_Login("wp_username")
# Use the application password, such as "Nths RwVH eDJ4 weNZ orMN jabq"
# See WordPress Application Passwords Plugin
http.put_Password("app_password")
http.put_BasicAuth(true)

# Create the tag "ChatGPT" if it does not already exist.
json = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
json.UpdateString("name","ChatGPT")

# This will create the tag if it does not yet exist.
# If the tag already exists, then a 400 status code is returned.
# If the tag deoes not yet exist, then a 201 status code is returned.
resp = Chilkat::CkHttpResponse.new()
success = http.HttpJson("POST","https://cknotes.com/wp-json/wp/v2/tags",json,"application/json",resp)
if (success == false)
    print http.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

jResp = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
jResp.Load(resp.bodyStr())

# Check if the tag already exists..
if (resp.get_StatusCode() == 400)
    if (jResp.HasMember("code") == true)
        if (jResp.StringOfEquals("code","term_exists",true) == true)
            # The tag already exists.
            print "The tag already exists." + "\n";
            print "Tag ID: " + jResp.IntOf("data.term_id").to_s() + "\n";
            exit
        end

    end

    # Fall through to check for errors.
end

# Check for errors.
if (resp.get_StatusCode() != 201)
    print resp.bodyStr() + "\n";
    print "status code = " + resp.get_StatusCode().to_s() + "\n";
    exit
end

# We get here if the tag was created..
print "The tag was created." + "\n";
print "Tag ID = " + jResp.IntOf("id").to_s() + "\n";