Adding protection to a post created programmatically

[pgogy]

Hello
I am writing a little plugin to save all member emails as posts for future access.
Is it possible to restrict a post created with wp_insert_post?
It looks like I could unserialize the value in the DB table, add my post id and then re serialize it, but I was hoping there might be a safer way with existing functions.
Thanks in advance
Pat

[The Assurer]

If you are able to assign your posts to a specific category, you can use Category Protection:
https://simple-membership-plugin.com/use-category-protection-membership-site/

[admin]

You can also review the save_postdata function, which handles saving the protection data, to understand how our plugin processes post or page updates. This can serve as a reference if you wish to create your own function for applying protection settings when programmatically creating posts.

https://github.com/wp-insider/simple-membership/blob/ad0c24100ae22aed1ff3936cf845b43c3b643c26/simple-membership/classes/class.simple-wp-membership.php#L755

[pgogy]

Thanks both, I had spent a long time in that file before posting a request for help. I wasn’t sure how I could avoid erasing the existing data, but I re-read and noticed that the line

\SwpmPermission::get_instance( 2 )->apply( array( $post_id ), 'post' )->save();

Must have done it, so posting it here it helps other people.

Note this code is using PSR-4 (the slash)
This is using default members only access (the 2 after get instance).
Post_id is the id of the post i’ve made and ‘post’ is the post type which I have fixed as it’s always a post for members only.

Thanks again

[admin]

We will try to add a new function for this that can be used to apply protection to a post programmatically.

[admin]

We’ve added a couple of new functions in the latest version of the plugin to help you apply content protection programmatically. You can find details about these functions in the following section of the documentation:

https://simple-membership-plugin.com/simple-membership-miscellaneous-php-tweaks/#content-protection-related

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