Using a global variable in a wordpress hook, it will not work.

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Hi

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I’m creating my first WordPress plugin which creates pages on plugin activation, it gets these pages from an array which holds the page title and page content.

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My issue is that I want to stop access to those pages if you’re not an admin and also remove the pages if the plugin is deactivated and I use a separate function for each of these.

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Rather than adding the page array 3 times, I wanted to hold it at the top so that if I edit the page names etc I only need to do this once.

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I people don’t like using global variables but in this case I thought that it must be the best option.

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To keep everything simple, I’ve added some basic code below. I get no errors when activating the plugin but the page isn’t getting created. If I replace \`\`\`$pageTitle\`\`\` from the ‘title’ => $pageTitle and \`\`\`’post\_title’ => $pageTitle\`\`\` lines with \`\`\`Jumbo \`\`\` the page is created.

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$pageTitle = ‘Jumbo’; // The title of the page you want to check or create

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register\_activation\_hook(\_\_FILE\_\_, ‘hhhh’);

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function hhhh($pageTitle) {

echo $pageTitle;

// Set up the arguments for the query

$args = array(

‘post\_type’ => ‘page’,

‘post\_status’ => ‘publish’,

‘posts\_per\_page’ => 1,

‘title’ => $pageTitle // Note: ‘post\_title’ changed to ‘title’ for WP\_Query

);

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// Perform the query

$query = new WP\_Query($args);

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// Check if the page exists

if (!$query->have\_posts()) {

// If the page doesn’t exist, create it

$my\_post = array(

‘post\_title’ => $pageTitle,

‘post\_content’ => ‘Your page content here’, // Adjust content as needed

‘post\_status’ => ‘publish’,

‘post\_author’ => 1,

‘post\_type’ => ‘page’,

);

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// Insert the page into the database

wp\_insert\_post($my\_post);

}

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// Reset post data to avoid conflicts

wp\_reset\_postdata();

}

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\`\`\`

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Why is this?

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