My Blog Post Form no longer accepts multiple category fields

  • Resolved bryanewomack

    (@bryanewomack)


    4 years, 8 months ago

    I have set up blog post forms on several websites with several category fields on each form to allow search for the blog post under several categories not just one category. But now only one of those category fields is working on each form. I tried creating a new blog post form today and I am only able to have one category field on this new form. Something changed because in the recent past I was able to add more than one category to a form. Was there a WP User Front End Plugin update that changed this?

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  • Hello @bryanewomack

    I believe you are being served regarding this same issue through our site support channel. So I’m skipping the conversation here and it would be great if you continue the convo. over there to maintain a smooth conversation thread.

    Thanks & regards,

    Hi there,

    I’m actually encountering the same issue. Currently I have two parent categories that I wish to feature as separate drop downs, however the form builder will not allow this and instead shows all the sub categories under one dropdown which isn’t very intuitive. How can two separate category dropdowns be achieved?

    Kind regards,

    Thread Starter bryanewomack

    (@bryanewomack)

    You can’t have two category fields on one blog form but here is the best resolution of this issue, in my opinion:

    Edit your post form

    You can include only one category field on your form

    Edit the Category field.
    Open the Advanced Options area.
    In the “Type” box select “Checkbox”.
    Save your edit.

    Now when you or your subscriber opens the blog form on the front end to create the blog there will be seen a printed list of all of your categories on the blog form wherever you placed the category field. Each category on the list will have a checkbox. The list of categories will have the SUB categories INDENTED from the PARENT categories. You can select any and all categories on this category list as search categories for the blog.

    When you build your original category list in the admin backend you can have as many PARENT categories and SUB categories as you want. That is where you can set up your two PARENT categories and their SUB categories as you want them to be.

    I would suggest that you build an explanatory comment into your blog form to request that the user select one or more SUB category from each of the PARENT categories or something like that to solve the problem of having two separate category groups.

    In the blog form the categories will all be in one long list but you can ask your subscriber to select from that list however you like. Remember these categories are all just a way to search for blogs under a specific subject (category) so it is up to the subscriber to select the right search categories on their blog post so that other subscribers can find the post. It’s their job to get it right…

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