Primary category for single post

  • Resolved Velofreak

    (@ao-on-wp)


    3 years, 8 months ago

    Is it possible to set the primary category for a post? When on a single post I would like to determine from which category posts must be gotten from. Not the category with the lowest initial letter. The Yoast SEO plugin has the ability to set a primary category for a post, but unfortunately that doesn’t integrate with this plugin. It would be a great feature for this plugin. Or is there perhaps a way to do this with Posts in Sidebar?

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  • Plugin Author Aldo Latino

    (@aldolat)

    Hello @ao-on-wp,

    Is it possible to set the primary category for a post? When on a single post I would like to determine from which category posts must be gotten from. Not the category with the lowest initial letter.

    Posts in Sidebar has an option to choose the primary category just as WordPress does, i.e. the category with the lowest ID. The option is “Sort categories”:

    For example, in this scenario of categories:

    Category A where the ID assigned by WordPress is 300
    Category B where the ID assigned by WordPress is 100
    Category C where the ID assigned by WordPress is 200
    Category Z where the ID assigned by WordPress is 50

    if you activate that option, Posts in Sidebar will consider “Category Z” as the primary category.

    Please, see if that can be enough for your needs.

    Plugin Author Aldo Latino

    (@aldolat)

    Hi @ao-on-wp,
    I just released the new Posts in Sidebar 4.15.0 that adds the new option as per your request.
    You should receive the upgrade notification soon.

    You will find the panel modified as follows:

    Please, let me know.

    Thread Starter Velofreak

    (@ao-on-wp)

    WOW Aldo thanks very much for adding the feature to use the primary category as defined in the Yoast SEO Plugin. It makes it very easy to determine from which category posts must be pulled for posts that are published under multiple categories. I will give you more feedback in due course. Thanks again!

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