https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/selecting-multiple-categories Gravity Support Forums Topic: Selecting Multiple Categories en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:58:40 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/selecting-multiple-categories#post-42840 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:15:39 +0000 Chris Hajer 42840@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'm going to close this topic. If anyone has interest in the plugin solution coded by parakmh, please follow this topic:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/selecting-multiple-categories-add-on-for-gravity-forms" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/selecting-multiple-categories-add-on-for-gravity-forms</a></p> <p>If anyone has specific questions about this functionality, not related to this 3rd party add-on, please feel free to open a new topic. Thank you. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/selecting-multiple-categories#post-42722 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:36:35 +0000 parakmh 42722@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hello Gravity owners!<br /> Since we also faced the same problem, getting the idea from David Smith, we extended the functionality and created a plugin that you can not only use the normal post category control where you can select your desired categories with checkboxes but also use a Drop-Down menu, Multi Select or Radio Buttons for your category selection.</p> <p>As you can imagine, this plugin is distributed for free (GPL) and you can learn more and download in a relevant how to post on our site: <a href="http://www.moneytized.com/selecting-multiple-categories-gravity-forms/" rel="nofollow">Selecting Multiple Categories Addon for Gravity Forms</a></p> <p>We have extensively tested it and think that it's a very stable release. If you have ANY problems with it, please do tell us and we'll be happy to help.</p> <p>Hope it can help many with the same issue and thanks once again to David Smith for giving us something to work on ;) </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/selecting-multiple-categories#post-27622 Sat, 11 Jun 2011 17:15:39 +0000 Anonymous 27622@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@parkeast... THANK YOU</p> <p>This is just fantastic as I have about 80 categories and user-submitted posts.</p> <p>The only thing that could be improved is to allow two columns or three columns for formatting, but this is just great.</p> <p><a href="http://awardsforebooks.com/add-your-ebook/" rel="nofollow">Please see your work in action, parkeast!</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/selecting-multiple-categories#post-27446 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:49:37 +0000 Noel Green 27446@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Oh... hi all! Sorry, sleep ya know.<br /> Yes, it's working how I needed it to, thanks much to the help here!!</p> <p>Again, this isn't supported by them, but here's the "fix."</p> <p>Paste this in your theme's function.php file...<br /> <pre><code>/* Gravity Forms Categories */ add_action(&#39;gform_post_submission&#39;, &#39;gform_add_categories&#39;, 10, 2); function gform_add_categories($entry, $form){ if(!rgar($entry, &#39;post_id&#39;)) return; $post_id = rgar($entry, &#39;post_id&#39;); $valid_cat_ids = get_term_ids(); $cat_ids = array(); foreach($form[&#39;fields&#39;] as $field){ if(strpos($field[&#39;cssClass&#39;], &#39;add_categories&#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;category&#39;, false); } function get_term_ids(){ $categories = get_terms(&#39;category&#39;, &#39;hide_empty=0&#39;); $cat_ids = array(); foreach($categories as $category) $cat_ids[] = $category-&gt;term_id; return $cat_ids; } function print_rr($array){ echo &#39;&lt;pre&gt;&#39;; print_r($array); echo &#39;&lt;/pre&gt;&#39;; }</code></pre> <p>Then, when you add a check box, simply put the category ID # in the "value" field.<br /> You HAVE to put the IDs in for every category you want it to post into. So it is a "hack", but it works great. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/selecting-multiple-categories#post-27385 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:28:06 +0000 Anonymous 27385@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Well, I can understand, but at the same time, my Global eBook Awards contest close at the end of the month and we're trying to ramp up, so this feature will be missed if it's not going to be ready right away. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/selecting-multiple-categories#post-27209 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:50:55 +0000 David Smith 27209@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Joseph, we'd like to make the category field more functional but there are other fractures that have just been a higher priority thus far. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/selecting-multiple-categories#post-27195 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:22:53 +0000 Anonymous 27195@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Truth is that I would really love to just be able to have my categories show up in alphabetical order, but it looks like it's based on some obscure field. It's not based on date created. Can't we alphabetize the drop-down instead of laying out a bunch of checkboxes? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/selecting-multiple-categories#post-27194 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:21:38 +0000 Anonymous 27194@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>What's the haps on this? I'd really like to be able to do this as well and I'm happy to edit my common.php to get it. Screenshots of the solution, please?? And why can't this be supported?? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/selecting-multiple-categories#post-26981 Sat, 04 Jun 2011 11:23:41 +0000 hafizmohd 26981@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Did it work from your end @parkeast?<br /> I try to post this, but maybe i didnt specify my exact problem. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/selecting-multiple-categories#post-26917 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:56:06 +0000 Noel Green 26917@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Just got an email from you. ;D </p>