Title: Someone please help!!!
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Someone please help!!!

 *  [jessedrelick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessedrelick/)
 * (@jessedrelick)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/someone-please-help-5/)
 * I am having the hardest time figuring this out, and I’ve already posted a couple
   times on here with no responses and also on some other sites and still not one
   response : [
 * I have a plugin. I have my own function that reads a CSV file and creates content
   automatically from the data. All works wonderful.
 * However, I would like two columns, namely the ‘category’ and ‘subcategory’ columns
   of the csv file, to be used to add terms to the custom taxonomy I have created.
 * Within the working loop using wp_insert_post() to add these posts from the CSV
   file. I am also calling wp_insert_term()… However, this function will not work
   in my plugin anywhere except for the function I have hooked to the init() action…
 * Basically it seems wp_insert_term will not work unless it is in the init hook.
   Why is this? I can’t use a loop to a) check if the term exists, b) if not create
   the term, c) return the value of the term whether it exists or was just created,
   d) assign the post_category parameter to the value of the term id so the post
   uses the correct term…
 * Why does this not work? I am still new to wordpress so perhaps there is something
   I am missing or don’t understand? Everything else I have done has worked fine
   however, so I feel the answer to my question may not be immediately apparent…
 * Any help will be greatly appreciated!

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