[Resolved] Automatically Categorizing CRED Form Submissions

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[zacharyL]

I'm trying to automatically categorize a blog post CRED form submission to a Category term called "Community News".

I realize that Toolset is inherently unable to do this out of the box, but I was able to find a support thread that provided a PHP snippet to help me along this path. This however, didn't seem to work.

// Assign Guest Blog Posts to Community News

add_action("cred_save_data", "my_save_data_action",10,2);
function my_save_data_action($post_id, $form_data)
{
// if a specific form
    if ($form_data["id"]==2473)
    {
        $category_ids = array(1008); // replace your category ID
        wp_set_object_terms( $post_id, $category_ids, 'community-news');

    }
}

I replaced the data here with proper IDs and taxonomy term slugs.

2473 = CRED form ID
1008 = "Community News" term ID (I tried using the default term ID [1] here, and it didn't make a difference)
community-news = "Community News" term slug

My site can be found at hidden link. You'll have to be able to login if you want to submit a post, however.

Any help in this manner would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

[Luo Yang]

Hello,

Since it is a custom PHP codes problem, please provide a test site with the same problem also point out the problem page URL and form URL, where I can edit your custom PHP codes, I need a live website to test and debug this issue

[Luo Yang]

Thanks for the details, I have done below modifications in your website:

replace this line from:
wp_set_object_terms( $post_id, $category_ids, 'community-news');

To:
wp_set_object_terms( $post_id, $category_ids, 'category');

The third parameter 'category' is the taxonomy slug.

See WP document:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_set_object_terms/
$taxonomy
(string) (Required) The context in which to relate the term to the object.

[zacharyL]

Great, thank you! It hadn't occurred to me that it would want the slug of the taxonomy. Thanks for your help!