Combine posttype and category in subject line

It isn’t clear, but the category needs to go with the subject like so:

posttype-slug//[cat-slug] my subject

Otherwise Postie tries to find a post type called “[cat-slug] posttype-slug”

FYI – I’ve updated the page that documents this: https://postieplugin.com/faq/override-post-categories/

Hi Wayne,

Thanks for the response. This looks like it should do it, but I’m not having any success.

Following your suggestion, the post is being created as the correct post type, but the category is not being assigned and the category slug is being included in the post title.

I’ve tried the brackets approach as suggested and also the colon approach, with cat-slug, cat name and ID.

All no joy. Any ideas?

thanks.

If the category is in the title then Postie was unable to find the category.

Please install the support addon https://postieplugin.com/downloads/support-addon/ and send another test so I can see at which step the category is not being found.

Hey, thanks for following up.

I’ve installed that plugin and just run another test.

See what you can see ??

N.B. this is a custom taxonomy we are talking about. I am using Toolset Types plugin to create my custom posts and taxnomies.

I didn’t receive the logs. You should have received a copy. Please forward to [email protected]

Sorry Wayne, I hadn’t checked the box to activate the support log.

You should have received something this time.

This is what I saw in the logs:

[info] lookup_category: hse-bulletins
[info] lookup_category: not found by name hse-bulletins
[info] lookup_category: not found by slug hse-bulletins
[info] category wildcard lookup: hse-bulletins
[info] lookup_category: wildcard found: 
[info] tag_Categories: using default: 1

What this tells me is that “hse-bulletins” can’t be found in the taxonomy, category or otherwise.

I was afraid you’d say that ??

OK, so “hse-bulletins” and others I’ve tried are definitely taxonomy terms.

Is the functionality restricted to standard WP categories and tags or should it work with custom taxonomies and their terms too?

In looking through the code it appears that I am not checking the slug in one case which is likely affecting you. I’ll release a new version once I’ve fixed another issue. Should be later today.

Version 1.8.45 has been released with this fix.

This as fixed it for me. Thank you very much for your help and your very useful plugin.