Title: Category Adding
Last modified: March 7, 2017

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# Category Adding

 *  Resolved [phonographic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phonographic/)
 * (@phonographic)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-adding/)
 * Hi,
    Great plug by the way.
 * When I put “[Category]: Subject” into my email subject line, Postie creates a
   post titled “[Category]: Subject”if the category has not been created yet.
    Is
   it possible to firstly create the category if it does not exist? or is it possible
   for postie to ignore “”[Category]: “when creating the post/

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 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-adding/#post-8885495)
 * Thanks.
 * Currently there isn’t a way to automatically create the category. This request
   has come up before, but rarely.
 * There are some challenges in auto creating since you can provide a partial category.
   E.g. [cat] will match [category] or you can provide category IDs or you can provide
   custom taxonomy terms.
 * I’ll think about adding a filter so you can do the right thing in your particular
   case.
 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-adding/#post-8886837)
 * I did add the filter [http://postieplugin.com/filter-postie_category/](http://postieplugin.com/filter-postie_category/)
   
   I also created an addon to take advantage of it. [http://postieplugin.com/downloads/create-categories/](http://postieplugin.com/downloads/create-categories/)
 *  Thread Starter [phonographic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phonographic/)
 * (@phonographic)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-adding/#post-8887951)
 * Hi Wayne,
    Brilliant, I purchesed the add on but when I send an email it creates
   a post called “tmptitle”. The post body is “tmpPost” and the category is uncategorised.
 * Did I miss something?
 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-adding/#post-8890166)
 * Thanks. Sounds like something is amiss. Please install the Support AddOn so I
   can see what is happening. [http://postieplugin.com/downloads/support-addon/](http://postieplugin.com/downloads/support-addon/)
 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-adding/#post-8940918)
 * I’ve fixed the issue with the addon. You should see an update available in the
   plugin list.

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 * Last reply from: [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * Last activity: [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-adding/#post-8940918)
 * Status: resolved