Add multiple categories

I’d like that too. I was hoping to be able to change the category drop down to a checkbox list like the admin version.

It probably won’t be difficult to hack the plugin to change the “select” field to a ‘multi select’ field, but I’d prefer checkboxes as this site is for an older crowd who may not know about shift and control clicking.

And of course I generally prefer not to hack plugins – but this hack is just too tempting!

<select name="post_category" id="fep-category" class="postform">
becomes
<select multiple name="post_category" id="fep-category" class="postform">
or
<select multiple="multiple" name="post_category" id="fep-category" class="postform">

This works in a developer tool edit.

OK – the correct hack -if there is such a thing- is to use wp_category_checklist instead of wp_dropdown_categories at line 43 of submission-form.php.

Of course this will be overwrittten by plugin upgrades…

Feature Request – add cp setting to allow admin to decide whether to use dropdown or checkboxes. Thanks!

hey webmastery, i tried replacing wp_dropdown_categories with wp_category_checklist, but it doesnt work for me. i get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_category_checklist() in /hermes/waloraweb059/b800/moo.wolkifycom/wp-content/plugins/front-end-publishing/views/submission-form.php on line 43

any ideas? help would be greatly appreciated!