how to set post_meta when creating a post?

[jiji262]

No description provided.

[emreycolakoglu]

I'd like to learn this as well. Currently I'm trying like

meta: [{
            key: 'external_thumbnail',
            value: thumbnail
        }]

while creating posts, but no luck

[chattes]

Even I have the same issue any ideas how can we update Meta Fields?

[kadamwhite]

How are you registering the meta you wish to update?

[kadamwhite]

If you use register_rest_field like this: https://github.com/kadamwhite/wp-notebook/blob/master/wp-notebook.php#L62-L81 then you should be able to update the value by passing that key in the response: https://github.com/kadamwhite/wp-notebook/blob/master/src/components/EntryComposer/index.jsx#L49-L53

[kadamwhite]

If you're using register_meta, it should be something like this (untested):

meta: {
    external_thumbnail: thumbnail
}

[kadamwhite]

cc @jiji262 / @emreycolakoglu

[jamesjara]

What about with https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/update_post_meta I have a big problem using this plugin and framework... documentations is missing or not working.. hard to debugg, thanks for your help

[kadamwhite]

Closing this as a duplicate of #280 to unify the threads; meta handling is currently our top-priority documentation issue