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1. Pete
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #
   

   I'm displaying a drop down list of categories on a front end form using this code. I want the category which is set in the post to be selected when the form loads but this isn't working. What wrong with the code?

   $category = get_the_category();
   $selected = 0;
   if ( $category ) {
   $selected = $category[0]->cat_name;
   }
   wp_dropdown_categories( 'hierarchical=1&hide_empty=0&orderby=name&id=cat&show_count=0&title_li=&use_desc_for_title=1&class=cat requiredField&selected=' . $selected );

2. andrewmills
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #
   

   The selected argument of the wp_dropdown_categories needs to be an integer (i.e. the id of the category).

   Try changing this: $selected = $category[0]->cat_name;

   to this: $selected = $category[0]->cat_ID;

3. andrewmills
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #
   

   Just following up. Did that resolve your issue?

4. Pete
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #
   

   Yes thank you

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