Title: Category select Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Category select * Resolved [Rosti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rosti/) * (@rosti) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-select/) * Hi, * When somebody send me a post, the post automatically take to the original wordpress appointed post category. I want that, the guest’s post AUTOMATICALLY take a different category basically. When and how I can to set this in guest-posts-submit.php?? Sorry, but I’m an amateur. :o))) * Thank you! * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/guest-posts/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/guest-posts/) Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * Plugin Author [Babar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ibabar/) * (@ibabar) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-select/#post-3421110) * You can try to edit the submit file. * There’s a array with those informations. * Thread Starter [Rosti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rosti/) * (@rosti) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-select/#post-3421114) * Hi, * yes, I can edit, but don’t know the correct strings. Please write mee!! (I know the required category’s slug, and ID, but don’t know, how must insert to the code) * Thank you for the quick answer! * Plugin Author [Babar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ibabar/) * (@ibabar) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-select/#post-3421116) * I’m also not clear about it, that’s why haven’t documented about that. * Thread Starter [Rosti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rosti/) * (@rosti) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-select/#post-3421118) * ‘post_category’ => $category, // Usable for custom taxonomies too * Only this is the all info. It’ not enough me! :o))) * If the category ID=124, how must to insert ? * Sorry, I’m an really amateur. .o)))) * Plugin Author [Babar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ibabar/) * (@ibabar) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-select/#post-3421120) * I’m also not clear about it, that’s why haven’t documented about that. * [Nate_Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nate_nevins/) * (@nate_nevins) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-select/#post-3421435) * babar, for line: ‘post_category’ => $category, // Usable for custom taxonomies too * your problem is that it is asking for a array not a string. so for a quick fix all you would need to do is: ‘post_category’ => **array(**$category**)**, and wala its fixed 🙂 * //helper cat is helping * [Nate_Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nate_nevins/) * (@nate_nevins) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-select/#post-3421436) * Rosti, So all you need to do is apply the fix i give earlier and express the category you want on the shortcode like [guest-posts category=’124′] and that should fix your problem right quick and in a hurry * Plugin Author [Babar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ibabar/) * (@ibabar) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-select/#post-3421437) * Thanks Nate. I will update the plugin ASAP. 🙂 * [TedSwiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tedswiss/) * (@tedswiss) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-select/#post-3421440) * Hello, * Thanks for this nice plugin but even following clearly your indication it’s not working with following call: * [guest-posts category=’14985′ author=’5′] * Would be happy to find the trick, thanks for your help! * ``` This is a part of Guest Posts Plugin for WordPress. */ //Get the submitted form ob_start(); require_once($_POST["rootpath"]); $title = $_POST["title"]; $longtitle = $_POST["longtitle"]; $story = $_POST["story"]; $resume = $_POST["resume"]; $image_100100 = $_POST["image_100-100"]; $image_490270 = $_POST["image_490-270"]; $tags = $_POST["tags"]; $authorbio = $_POST["authorbio"]; $auteurimage = $_POST["auteurimage"]; $youtubelink = $_POST["youtubelink"]; $email = $_POST["email"]; $deezeralbum = $_POST["deezeralbum"]; $authorid = $_POST["authorid"]; $artiste_nc = $_POST["artiste_nc"]; $category = $_POST["category"]; $thankyou = $_POST["thanks"]; $path = $_POST["rootpath"]; $nonce=$_POST["_wpnonce"]; //Load WordPress //require($path); //Verify the form fields if (! wp_verify_nonce($nonce) ) die('Security check'); //Post Properties $new_post = array( 'post_title' => $title, 'post_content' => $story, 'post_category' => $category, // Usable for custom taxonomies too 'tags_input' => $tags, 'post_status' => 'pending', // Choose: publish, preview, future, draft, etc. 'post_type' => 'post', //'post',page' or use a custom post type if you want to 'post_author' => $author, //Author ID ); //save the new post $pid = wp_insert_post($new_post); /* Insert Form data into Custom Fields */ add_post_meta($pid, 'auteur_n1', $auteur_n1, true); add_post_meta($pid, 'author-email', $email, true); add_post_meta($pid, 'author-website', $site, true); add_post_meta($pid, 'artiste_nc', $artiste_nc, true); add_post_meta($pid, 'resume', $resume, true); add_post_meta($pid, 'longtitle', $longtitle, true); add_post_meta($pid, 'image_100-100', $image_100100, true); add_post_meta($pid, 'image_490-270', $image_490270, true); add_post_meta($pid, 'youtubelink', $youtubelink, true); add_post_meta($pid, 'authorbio', $authorbio, true); add_post_meta($pid, 'auteurimage', $auteurimage, true); add_post_meta($pid, 'deezeralbum', $deezeralbum, true); header("Location: $thankyou"); ?> ``` * [Jay Syder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jay-s/) * (@jay-s) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-select/#post-3421441) * Hi Ted swiss if you change the line ‘post_category’ => $category, // Usable for custom taxonomies too to ‘post_category’ => array($category), // Usable for custom taxonomies too * as Nate_Nevins said then on guest-posts/guest-posts.php * make sure the line ‘cat’ => ‘1’, to ‘cat’ => ”, * after this you can use the short code [guest-posts cat=’14985′ author=’5′] Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘Category select’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/guest-posts.svg) * [Guest Posts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/guest-posts/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/guest-posts/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/guest-posts/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/guest-posts/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/guest-posts/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/guest-posts/reviews/) * 10 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [Jay Syder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jay-s/) * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-select/#post-3421441) * Status: resolved