One thing that plugin developers want to do sooner or later is create a “fake” post. (Maybe you have a statistics plugin that you want to display a public graph when someone visits example.org/traffic.) You need to create the equivalent of a Page on the fly.
Fortunately, someone has already figured out how to do just that.
The general idea is to
- Collect the page slug from the request
- See if it matches the URL we want our virtual Page to be located at
- Prepare the content and metadata for the fake Page
- Hijack the page retrieval by changing the values of some variables
- Display everything as usual
It seems to work pretty well, and nothing seems to break when running a plugin making use of the trick.
