Title: Need help with a code Last modified: June 11, 2020 --- # Need help with a code * [Mikel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ogmic/) * (@ogmic) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/) * Can anyone help with a custom hook/code to auto change the post in a category to another category every day at exactly 12:00AM. * I have three categories ( general, special, free )… I have contents with this categories; general & free. So I want any post in the FREE category to change automatically to SPECIAL 12:00AM Daily. So I will have the post in General + SPECIAL category. - This topic was modified 6 years ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/). Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic Viewing 15 replies - 16 through 30 (of 44 total) [←](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/?output_format=md) [1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/?output_format=md) 2 [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/3/?output_format=md) * Thread Starter [Mikel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ogmic/) * (@ogmic) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/2/#post-12979380) * Thanks * Thread Starter [Mikel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ogmic/) * (@ogmic) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/2/#post-12979383) * So, that means I can create the file anywhere?… Cos I don’t have a child theme * [corrinarusso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corrinarusso/) * (@corrinarusso) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/2/#post-12979387) * You can place it anywhere really, as long at your php file has permissions set to 755, and you can access the wp-load.php file which is referenced in the script. * Thread Starter [Mikel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ogmic/) * (@ogmic) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/2/#post-12979389) * Thanks so so much. I will update you * Thread Starter [Mikel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ogmic/) * (@ogmic) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/2/#post-12979410) * [@corrinarusso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corrinarusso/) Hi, I got this in my mail; * X-Powered-By: PHP/7.4.6 Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=b1c8eeb08dac888059dec24224ce4d14; path=/ Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate Pragma: no-cache X-LiteSpeed-Cache-Control: no-cache Content- type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 * Thread Starter [Mikel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ogmic/) * (@ogmic) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/2/#post-12979416) * What does it mean… I set the Cron job to run every 5mins just to be sure, and I got that mail after 5mins, the post were not moved either * [corrinarusso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corrinarusso/) * (@corrinarusso) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/2/#post-12979417) * That’s not from my script, that’s from LightSpeed : * X-**LiteSpeed**-Cache-Control: no-cache * You should really turn your cache off while testing. * Thread Starter [Mikel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ogmic/) * (@ogmic) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/2/#post-12979418) * Oh.. Okay * Thread Starter [Mikel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ogmic/) * (@ogmic) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/2/#post-12979421) * I have deactivated the LiteSpeed Cache plugin, will wait for the next 5mins * Thread Starter [Mikel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ogmic/) * (@ogmic) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/2/#post-12979434) * [@corrinarusso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corrinarusso/) Here is what I got; * X-Powered-By: PHP/7.4.6 Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=bc5f8ed5bbfbe6147eadcc423a737f7e; path=/ Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate Pragma: no-cache Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 * No post was moved too * [corrinarusso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corrinarusso/) * (@corrinarusso) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/2/#post-12979446) * Can you post the content of the script file back into here pls? Also – again this is coming from your nocache header : [https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-cache-limiter.php](https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-cache-limiter.php) The expiry date is listed as : Expires: Thu, **19 Nov 1981** 08:52:00 GMT which is a nod to a php developer. * [corrinarusso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corrinarusso/) * (@corrinarusso) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/2/#post-12979448) * You’ll need to post your code, as well as a screenshot of the cron, as well as that you changed the php file to have 755 permissions. * Thread Starter [Mikel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ogmic/) * (@ogmic) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/2/#post-12979452) * I saw this in the error_log file; * Connection refused. * Thread Starter [Mikel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ogmic/) * (@ogmic) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/2/#post-12979453) * Okay * Thread Starter [Mikel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ogmic/) * (@ogmic) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/2/#post-12979459) * Here is my code * ``` 1&'); //echo $output."\n"; global $wpdb; $oldCatSlug = 'free-content'; $newCatSlug = 248; // you need to insert an integer here that matches your SPECIAL category $category = get_category_by_slug( $oldCatSlug ); if ( $category ) { $posts = get_posts( array( 'numberposts' => -1, 'category_name' => 'FREE CONTENT', ) ); if ( $posts ) { foreach ( $posts as $post ) { // update categories the match FREE // see https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_set_post_categories wp_set_post_categories( $post->ID, $newCatSlug, false ); // set this to true if you want this category appended } } } ?> ``` Viewing 15 replies - 16 through 30 (of 44 total) [←](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/?output_format=md) [1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/?output_format=md) 2 [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/3/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Need help with a code’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 44 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [corrinarusso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corrinarusso/) * Last activity: [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-a-code/page/3/#post-13042864) * Status: not a support question ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics