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Attach Featured Media to Post

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Recipe · 3 steps

Attach Featured Media to Post

Select an existing image attachment and feature it on a new post.

  1. List image attachments from the media library, returning the most recent single image to use as the featured media.
  2. Create a published post and set its featured_media to the image attachment found in the media library.
  3. Read the post back by id to confirm it was created with the featured image assigned.
What you'll need to have ready
  • authorization: HTTP Basic Authorization header value built from a WordPress Application Password (e.g. "Basic dXNlcjpwYXNzd29yZA==").
  • postTitle: The title for the new post.
  • postContent: The HTML content body for the new post.
For your developer

Arazzo workflow wordpress:attach-featured-media-to-post, 3 operations: listMedia → createPost → getPost. Specs on APIs.io.