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Assign post category automatically based on xprofile field or member type

maelga
Participant

@maelga

9 years, 5 months ago

Hi,

I would like to automatically assign a category to a post based on the author’s xprofile field. (and also possibly based on member type, if I decide one day to “migrate” this xprofile field to member type).

I have tried to start from this thread:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-add-posts-to-a-category-conditionally?replies=4
but that code alone does not work.

I have also looked at hacking this plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/author-category/) with which an author can be assigned a category manually in backend, but I have to admit this is beyond my current skills.

Has anyone any idea how to achieve this?

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shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

9 years, 5 months ago
This should provide the general idea:
```
function add_category_automatically($post_ID) {
	global $post;
	$author_id = $post->post_author;

        $dog = xprofile_get_field_data('Dog', $author_id, $multi_format = 'comma');

	if( $dog == 'poodle' ) {
		$cat = 9547;
		wp_set_object_terms($post_ID, $cat, 'category', true);
	}

}
add_action('publish_post', 'add_category_automatically');
```
danbp
Participant

@danbp

9 years, 5 months ago

hi @maelga,
You can’t actually automatically associate a user to a category.
try Restrict Categories, which let you assign categories to each user via backend.

To associate an xprofile value (or member_type), try this:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-assign-a-wp-user-role-based-on-a-registration/#post-232887

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