Title: Insert Term Question
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Insert Term Question

 *  [jessedrelick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessedrelick/)
 * (@jessedrelick)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-term-question/)
 * Hello!
 * I am trying to import a CSV File into custom content types in WordPress 3. It
   works fine, only I am trying to create new terms in my custom taxonomy for the
   values in one of the CSV Columns.
 * It seems that I cannot insert new terms using wp_insert_term from anywhere except
   within the init() stage of WP.
 * When I use the following function, it will not add:
    /** Upload **/ $uploaded
   = @$_POST[‘hidden_uploaded’]; $content_type= @$_POST[‘content_type’]; $csv_file
   = @$_FILES[‘file_csv’][‘tmp_name’];
 *  if(isset($uploaded)){
    $result = price_read_csv($csv_file, $content_type); $
   category_id= wp_insert_term(‘Containers’, ‘price_products_category’); echo $result;}
 * This is in the main plugin file, so basically if the $uploaded variable is set(
   after the user submits the upload form) it runs the csv function and tries to
   add a hard coded category… However this will not work, do new terms have to be
   added at a particular stage or can they can be added when needed?
 * Thanks much!!

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