Select category for post in a custom publishing post page

  • Hello,
    I created a page in wp admin to quickly publish videos, but i need to select a video category for that video and this is what i did so far but it doesnt work for me. I hope somebody can help me.

    $my_post['post_category'] = $video_category;

<select name="video_category" class="widefat mid">
 <option value="video_category">Select Category...</option>
 <?php
  $categories=  get_categories('');
  foreach ($categories as $videocategory) {
  	$video_category = '<option value="/category/archives/'.$videocategory->category_nicename.'">';
	$video_category .= $videocategory->cat_name;
	$video_category .= selected($videocategory, $_POST['video_category']);
	$video_category .= '</option>';
	print ucfirst($video_category);
  }
 ?>
</select>

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  • What is not working about it?

    Thread Starter JR Web Studio

    (@jetonr)

    Bump: anybody please…

    Thread Starter JR Web Studio

    (@jetonr)

    Well I can select a categoory for the post but I will show uncategorised allthough i can select the category from the drop down list. This is a custom page that I made for publishing, cant getthe categories to work.
    here is how i strucured it.

    // Category exists?
if (!empty($_POST['video_category'])) {
$video_category = $_POST['video_category'];
} else {
$video_category = 'Please select a category';
}

$my_post['post_category'] = array(prep($row['video_category'])); 

<select name="video_category" class="widefat mid">
 <option value="video_category">Select Category...</option>
 <?php
  $categories=  get_categories('');
  foreach ($categories as $videocategory) {
  	$video_category = '<option value="/category/archives/'.$videocategory->category_nicename.'">';
	$video_category .= $videocategory->cat_name;
	$video_category .= selected($videocategory, $_POST['video_category']);
	$video_category .= '</option>';
	print ucfirst($video_category);
  }
 ?>
</select>

    I still don’t quite understand what you’re doing… and parts of your code don’t make sense. Where is the $row array coming from, and what are you doing with $my_post? What does the selected() function do? (It looks like it’s trying to mark the selected option, but that won’t work because the <option> tag is closed in the line above it.) And why are you using the ucfirst() function? It won’t do anything because the first character of $video_category is non-alphabetic.

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