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maartenlauwaert
maartenlauwaert

Reputation: 3

How to create a new wordpress category in front end

I want my users to be able to post from the front end, and to put the post in a category they created. I got everything in my form except the possibility to create a new category.

Does anyone have an idea how to do this?

Thanks!!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3994

Answers (4)

Dharmesh Patel
Dharmesh Patel

Reputation: 129

If you want to add Category from the front side than there is one easy way: (100% Working)

wp_insert_term('Category Name', 'texonomy_type');

Example:
wp_insert_term('National', 'category');

Upvotes: 1

Craig Wayne
Craig Wayne

Reputation: 5060

add_action( 'admin_init', function(){
   wp_create_category( 'Custom Category 1' );
   wp_create_category( 'Custom Category 2' );
});

Upvotes: 0

krembo99
krembo99

Reputation: 1479

assuming you use POST 

//Checking if category already there
$cat_ID = get_cat_ID( $_POST['newcat'] );

//If not create new category
if($cat_ID == 0) {
    $cat_name = array('cat_name' => $_POST['newcat']);
    wp_insert_category($cat_name);
}

//Get ID of newly created category
$new_cat_ID = get_cat_ID($_POST['newcat']);

// Create post object
$new_post = array(
    'post_title' => $headline,
    'post_content' => $body,
    'post_excerpt' => $excerpt,
    'post_date' => $date,
    'post_date_gmt' => $date,
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'post_author' => 1,
    'post_category' => array($new_cat_ID)
);

// Insert the post into the database
wp_insert_post( $new_post );'

you can also ty this : $newcat = $_POST['newcat'] and then just replace with $newcat in the code which maybe looks better :-)

note that wp_insert_category() and wp-create_categoy() has teh same function as far as you are concerned (IMHO)

Upvotes: 1

krembo99
krembo99

Reputation: 1479

use 

<?php wp_create_category( $cat_name, $parent ); ?>

pass variable 

wp_create_category($category);

or ,

hook the create_category action

Upvotes: 1

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