https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/post-to-category-being-viewed-dynamically Gravity Support Forums Topic: Post to category being viewed dynamically... en-US Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:58:02 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/post-to-category-being-viewed-dynamically#post-42381 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:19:52 +0000 David Smith 42381@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Sallana,</p> <p>I'd recommend the hidden field approach which you would dynamically populate with the current category ID. Using the gform_after_submission hook you could retrieve the value populated in the hidden field (category ID) and then use the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_set_object_terms" rel="nofollow">wp_set_object_terms</a> function.</p> <p>Here is a related thread that might have some more information for you:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/add-parent-post-category-with-hookfilter" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/add-parent-post-category-with-hookfilter</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/post-to-category-being-viewed-dynamically#post-41049 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:25:36 +0000 Sallana 41049@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Setting up a WP site that has a similar structure to craigslist.. There are many regions and each region is a category. I've put a form for submitting a listing in my category.php file. I need the form to post to the category that is being viewed. How would I achieve this?</p> <p>What I have tried so far... :<br /> Viewing and using the source code. I found that there was a piece of code that looked liked this:<br /> action='/?cat=3#gf_1'&gt;<br /> .. And I thought, oh that's where it tells it to post to the specific category... So I change it to:<br /> action='/?cat=&lt;?php the_category_ID(); ?&gt;#gf_1'&gt;</p> <p>Which seemed to work but it would still post to category 3. I think that line just showed what category page you were in by default.</p> <p>I've searched through the documentation and forum, and of course have considered adding a hidden category field that is pre-populated, but not sure if that would work. As I understand it, you have to place the following in your functions.php file.. : </p> <pre><code>add_filter(&#39;gform_field_value_your_parameter&#39;, &#39;my_custom_population_function&#39;) function my_custom_population_function($value){ return &#39;boom!&#39;; }</code></pre> <p>The return value would have to be something like the_category_id but I'm not sure how to merge those two things together. And even if I could, I'm not sure that it would work. And also it appears that you *have* to set a category for the form to post to in the post title. So how would I stop it from posting to more than one category and only posting to the category which the user is currently viewing? </p> <p>Thanks in advance. </p>