Unable to set category in Post from PHP

Public Ticket #17267

Unable to set category in Post from PHP

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calvinteoh replied

5 years ago

Customer Reply

Thanks for the feedback! I managed to solve this based on the feedback you provided.

PenciDesign Supporter replied

5 years ago

Staff Reply

Hi,

Please read this document about WP Insert Post: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_insert_post/

The "post_category" only accepts category ID, so please find the Category ID of the category then tries again.

Regards,
PenciDesign.

calvinteoh started the conversation

5 years ago

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I have created a new category named World News and the slug name is worldnews.

I have a PHP code that would generate a post and insert the post to Wordpress. However, when I enter the category using the "post_category" function with "worldnews", I am not able to update the category to the post. This cause the post to have a non-category post.

Can you feedback, on what is the right way to enter the category from PHP for this theme? Do I need to use some ID value?

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