Title: assign a Category
Last modified: October 21, 2016

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# assign a Category

 *  Resolved [nobith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nobith/)
 * (@nobith)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assign-a-category/)
 * Is it possible to automatically assign a category to a new submission after the
   user has submitted and pressed the button. I don’t want to let the user decide
   which category, so I don’t display categories selector in form.
 * It should go automatically. So when I show the form on a special page that has
   a specific category
    all submissions should go to this category by itself.

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 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assign-a-category/#post-8339085)
 * The free version doesn’t have a specific option for this, but it should be possible
   by configuring the category field as desired (via the plugin settings), and then
   simply hiding the field on the frontend. Here is a snippet that you can add to
   your theme’s style.css file:
 * `.usp-category { display: none; }`
 * With that in place, the category field will be submitted along with the form 
   without the user ever seeing it.
 * Updated to add that the Pro version of USP has a built-in way to do this, without
   modifying your theme template.
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/).
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assign-a-category/#post-8455544)
 * Gonna go ahead and mark this as resolved to help keep things organized. Feel 
   free to follow-up or post afresh with any new issues or questions. Thank you.

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