[Plugin: Post Expirator] Can't get custom taxonomies working

If you can provide a link to the code I can take a look and see – feel free to just dump it into pastebin.com

Hi Aaron,

Thanks for the reply.

I’ve pasted the code here: https://pastebin.com/n945cq4y

I’ve changed a few instances of category to locations_category, but think the problem likely lies with this section, as I’m not sure how to edit it for custom taxonomies:

`// Check to see if expiration category is enabled and set – otherwise, proceed as normal
$catEnabled = get_option(‘expirationdateCategory’);
$cat = get_post_meta($a->post_id,’_expiration-date-category’);
if (($catEnabled === false || $catEnabled == 1) && (isset($cat) && !empty($cat[0]))) {
wp_update_post(array(‘ID’ => $a->post_id, ‘post_category’ => $cat[0]));`

Any help with be much appreciated!

ANY luck with this? I am in the same situation. I use the PE on a custom post type and need to have it move those ‘posts’ to a different category, but the cats for the CPTs do not show in the Post Exp. settings.

PLEASE help!

Just found this to add standard post type categories to custom post types.

add_action( 'init', 'wpse6098_init', 100 ); // 100 so the post type has been registered
function wpse6098_init()
{
    register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'category', 'your_custom_post_type' );
}

There are 3 areas of code that you will need to change if you wish to use a custom taxonomy instead of the default category:.

In the examples below I will use ‘mycat’ as the slug for my custom taxonomy.

In the “expirationdate_delete_expired_posts” function find

wp_update_post(array('ID' => $a->post_id, 'post_category' => $cat[0]));

and replace with

$terms = array_map('intval', $cat[0]);
wp_set_object_terms($a->post_id,$terms,'mycat',false);

In the “expirationdate_meta_box” function find

wp_terms_checklist(0, array( 'taxonomy' => 'category', 'walker' => $walker, 'selected_cats' => $categories, 'checked_ontop' => false ) );

and replace it with

wp_terms_checklist(0, array( 'taxonomy' => 'mycat', 'walker' => $walker, 'selected_cats' => $categories, 'checked_ontop' => false ) );

In the “postExpiratorMenuGeneral” function find

wp_terms_checklist(0, array( 'taxonomy' => 'category', 'walker' => $walker, 'selected_cats' => $categories, 'checked_ontop' => false ) );

and replace it with

wp_terms_checklist(0, array( 'taxonomy' => 'mycat', 'walker' => $walker, 'selected_cats' => $categories, 'checked_ontop' => false ) );

That should do the trick – or at least it did for me in my testing on 3.3.2

Thank You very very much !!