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1. Ruwan_Geeganage
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi all,
   I want the user to select a category before posting new post. if he\she doesn't select an category, he cant post the new post.
   It means that category of a post is must.

   Please me on this..

   thank you.

2. dwharrington
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Have you heard back or discovered an answer for this? I want to do the same thing.

3. Steve Taylor
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I had to hack this client-side:

   jQuery( document ).ready( function($) {
   	if ( $( ".post-new-php form#post" ).length || $( ".post-php form#post" ).length ) {
   		$( "form#post" ).submit( function() {
   			if ( $( "ul.categorychecklist input:checked" ).length == 0 ) {
   				alert( "Please select a category for this post!" );
   				return false;
   			}
   		});
   	}
   }

   I've just added this to my custom theme's admin JS file. If you need to add this to a custom theme, if the above code is in your theme in a file called "admin.js", use this code to include it:

   function admin_js() { ?>
   	<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo trailingslashit( get_bloginfo( 'template_directory' ) ); ?>admin.js"></script>
   <?php }
   add_action( 'admin_footer', 'admin_js' );

   It could be easily wrapped up in a tiny plugin of course.

   I'd be interested if anyone finds a server-side method.

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