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1. Smaug56
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Hi all,

   I'm building a plugin to create a new category every time a new page is created, and naming each one 'Sidebar: $page_title'. For this, I am hanging a function from save_post:

   In plugin .php:
   add_action('save_post', 'create_sidebar_cat');

   In functions.php
   

   function create_sidebar_cat($post_id)
   {
            if(defined('DOING_AUTOSAVE') && DOING_AUTOSAVE) return;
            $pcheck = $_GET["post_type"];
            if($pcheck != "page") return;
            if ( !wp_is_post_revision( $post_id ) )
            {
               $post_title = get_the_title( $post_id );
               $cname = 'Sidebar: '.$post_title;
               wp_create_category ($cname, 3);}
   }

   It is working to a certain extent - the category is being created, and with the correct parent (id 3). But it is being named 'Sidebar: Auto Draft'. Does anyone know why this is happening, or can suggest a better way of calling the new page title when 'publish' is clicked?

   Many thanks in advance,

   Iain

2. Smaug56
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   moving this to the sub-forum, as it seems more appropriate there

   [mod: redundant duplicate removed]

3. netcs.vg
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   im new here, but sounds like the post hasn't been saved/published yet. Why not get the title from the $_GET array?

4. Smaug56
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Thanks for the suggestion netcs. I just gave that a go, but $_GET(["post_title"]; is empty. The autodraft message is gone as well now.

   The somewhat clumsy way I tested this was by adding this code to send an email to myself:

   $post_title = $_GET["post_title"];
   $cname = 'Sidebar: '.$post_title;
   $catmessage = "The GET title is ".$GET["post_title"]." and the variable is ".$post_title.". The cat name is ".$cname;
   
   mail("myemail@mail.com","New category created",$catmessage);

   Any other ideas?

   Cheers,
   Smaug

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