WordPress Plugin to create a React Public page on activation

Question

I'm building a WordPress plugin that creates an admin menu and stores the value in the WordPress backend and then shows this stored value on a Public page. But the code is not creating a Public page where I want to load a custom react page.

In the root directory, I have wp-react-kickoff.php file like this

<?php
/**
 * Plugin Name: Batmobile Design
 * Author: Batman
 * Author URI: 
 * Version: 1.0.0
 * Description: WordPress React KickOff.
 * Text-Domain: wp-react-kickoff
 */

if( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) : exit(); endif; // No direct access allowed.

/**
* Define Plugins Contants
*/
define ( 'WPRK_PATH', trailingslashit( plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) ) );
define ( 'WPRK_URL', trailingslashit( plugins_url( '/', __FILE__ ) ) );

/**
 * Loading Necessary Scripts
 */
add_action( 'admin_enqueue_scripts', 'sd_scripts' );
function sd_scripts() {
    wp_enqueue_script( 'wp-react-kickoff', WPRK_URL . 'dist/bundle.js', [ 'jquery', 'wp-element' ], wp_rand(), true );
    wp_localize_script( 'wp-react-kickoff', 'appLocalizer', [
        'apiUrl' => home_url( '/wp-json' ),
        'nonce' => wp_create_nonce( 'wp_rest' ),
    ] );
}

require_once WPRK_PATH . 'classes/class-create-admin-menu.php';
require_once WPRK_PATH . 'classes/class-create-settings-routes.php';
require_once WPRK_PATH . 'classes/class-public-page.php';

Then I have created a folder called classes where I have

class-create-admin-menu.php, 
class-create-settings-routes.php, 
class-public-page.php, 
wprk-public-page-template.php.

The code specific to create Public page looks like this

<?php
/**
 * This file will create Public Page
 */


function wprk_create_public_page() {
    $page = [
        'post_type' => 'Automatic page',
        'post_title' => 'WP React KickOff Public Page',
        'post_content' => 'asasasas',
        'post_status' => 'publish',
        'post_author' => 1,
    ];
    $page_id = wp_insert_post( $page );
    update_post_meta( $page_id, '_wp_page_template', 'wprk-public-page-template.php' );
}

register_activation_hook( __FILE__, 'wprk_create_public_page' );

And my wprk-public-page-template.php

<div id="wprk-public-app"></div>
<?php
wp_enqueue_script( 'wp-react-Kickoff', WPRK_URL . 'dist/bundle.js', [], wp_rand(), true );
wp_localize_script( 'wp-react-Kickoff', 'appLocalizer', [
        'apiUrl' => home_url( '/wp-json' ),
        'nonce' => wp_create_nonce( 'wp_rest' ),
    ] );

And In the ReactFolder, I have App.js, both Settings (This is for admin menu, it is working properly) and Public Page rendered like this

import React from 'react';
import PublicPage from './components/PublicPage';
import Settings from './components/Settings';

function App() {
    return(
        <React.Fragment>
            <Settings />
            <PublicPage />
        </React.Fragment>
    )
}
export default App;

And for testing, let the Public page, look like this

import axios from 'axios';

const apiUrl = appLocalizer.apiUrl;
const nonce = appLocalizer.nonce;



import React from 'react';

function PublicPage(props) {
    return (
        <div>
            <h1>hello world asasa</h1>
        </div>
    );
}

export default PublicPage;

I'm quite new to programming. Could someone help me identify why the Public page is not getting created?

Please let me know if you need additional information to troubleshoot?

Answer 1

your post_type argument in your create page function isnt valid.

If you have a custom post type you'll want to use the slug, otherwise, in your case if i understand correctly you want to create a standard wordpress page which the post type is page.

function wprk_create_public_page() {
    $page = [
        'post_type' => 'page',
        'post_title' => 'WP React KickOff Public Page',
        'post_content' => 'asasasas',
        'post_status' => 'publish',
        'post_author' => 1,
    ];
    $page_id = wp_insert_post( $page );
    update_post_meta( $page_id, '_wp_page_template', 'wprk-public-page-template.php' );
}

register_activation_hook( __FILE__, 'wprk_create_public_page' );