https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/posting-using-category-slug Gravity Support Forums Topic: Posting Using Category Slug en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:02:41 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/posting-using-category-slug#post-50114 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:52:20 +0000 David Smith 50114@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Try using print_r() to echo out the $categories variable to see if you're successfully retrieving any categories. If so, check and make sure the slug property exists for these categories. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/posting-using-category-slug#post-50032 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:11:12 +0000 Noel Green 50032@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I had tried that... </p> <p>Is it because all of the categories are in custom taxonomies?<br /> I'm betting yes. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/posting-using-category-slug#post-50019 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:24:55 +0000 David Smith 50019@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Noel,</p> <p>It doesn't look like it'd take much to convert this to slugs rather than IDs. This bit from the <strong>get_greenmy_home_ids()</strong> function would need to be updated like so:</p> <pre><code>[php] foreach($categories as $category) $cat_ids[] = $category-&gt;slug;</code></pre> <p>You might consider renaming the variables through out to indicate that you are using slugs now (ie $cat_ids would be come $cat_slugs).</p> <p>You would also want to make sure you update the values of your custom category field in GF to use the slugs as well. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/posting-using-category-slug#post-50002 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:39:09 +0000 Noel Green 50002@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'm using this code below to post into specific categories using the category ID… and it works great… what I'm wondering is if there's a way to make it grab and use the category "slug" instead?</p> <p>I have, literally, over 1,000 categories. And when I make a new one (or a new set of them) referencing the category ID takes forever. If I could simply type in the slug it would make life oh-so-easy!</p> <p>Here's the code...<br /> <pre><code>/* Gravity Forms Posting */ add_action(&#39;gform_post_submission&#39;, &#39;gform_add_greenmy_home&#39;, 10, 2); function gform_add_greenmy_home($entry, $form){ if(!rgar($entry, &#39;post_id&#39;)) return; $post_id = rgar($entry, &#39;post_id&#39;); $valid_cat_ids = get_greenmy_home_ids(); $cat_ids = array(); foreach($form[&#39;fields&#39;] as $field){ if(strpos($field[&#39;cssClass&#39;], &#39;add_greenmy_home&#39;) === false) continue; foreach($entry as $key =&gt; $value){ if(intval($key) != $field[&#39;id&#39;] || !in_array($value, $valid_cat_ids)) continue; $cat_ids[] = (int) $value; } } wp_set_object_terms($post_id, $cat_ids, &#39;greenmy_home&#39;, false); } function get_greenmy_home_ids(){ $categories = get_terms(&#39;greenmy_home&#39;, &#39;hide_empty=0&#39;); $cat_ids = array(); foreach($categories as $category) $cat_ids[] = $category-&gt;term_id; return $cat_ids; } function print_greenmy_home($array){ echo &#39;&lt;pre&gt;&#39;; print_r($array); echo &#39;&lt;/pre&gt;&#39;; }</code></pre>