Automatic category creation and category as post title WordPress
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Been racking my brain (and google) trying to figure this out.
What I want is for every post to automatically create a category that matches the post title. So, if I create a post titled "Look at me" I want a category to be automatically created also called "Look at me".
I think I've gotten relatively close:
$post_id = 1;
$cat = get_the_title($post_id);
// Adding category to the post
wp_set_object_terms( $post_id, array("$cat"), 'category');
Now I just need to replace the specific post ID with the current post's ID - is that possible?
Answers (3)
John Cotton answers:
$post_id = 1;
$cat = get_the_title($post_id);
$id = wp_create_category( $cat );
// Adding category to the post
wp_set_object_terms( $post_id, $id, 'category');
chizet comments:
I tried using that but couldn't get it to work. Even if I could, how would I get it to work for every post and to accept the current posts' title?
John Cotton comments:
Well you wouldn't want to do this all the time surely..?
Just when you save a post presumable?
So:
add_action('save_post', 'create_new_category');
function create_new_category($post_id ) {
$cat = get_the_title($post_id);
$id = wp_create_category( $cat );
// Adding category to the post
wp_set_object_terms( $post_id, $id, 'category');
}
chizet comments:
John, this is looking great so far. Closest I've been yet.
One issue I've encountered is that I cannot assign any other categories to a post - it will only accept the code-created category - is there a way around that?
chizet comments:
Ah, solved it - added "true" as the $append argument (instead of the default "false".)
Still playing around, but again, so far this is working great. Thanks John!
John Cotton comments:
Glad it worked.
It probably needs some code in there to see whether a category of the same name exists (by default it will just create a slug of "existing-name-2"), but that really all depends on what you actually trying to achieve.
chizet comments:
Hey John, I'm going to go ahead and select your answer as the winner - it's working perfect. Thanks again!
Here is a follow-up question - is it possible to process your code only if a post does not have another category?
Utkarsh Kukreti answers:
Where will you be adding the above code?
chizet comments:
Right now the above code is in functions.php
Geet Purwar answers:
Yes thats entirely possible.
chizet comments:
do tell :)
Geet Purwar comments:
Simply create a function in functions.php that automatically creates/assign category to post and make this function run when post is published using action ('publish_post ').
That will do the task.