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Function to create a Category for each Group on creation

  • @ugd

    Participant

    9 years, 11 months ago

    I’m looking to have a category created for each BuddyPress Group when it’s made. So far I’ve found this code which would create a Category once the Group was created. I would use this code in the Theme Functions.

    function example_insert_category() {
  wp_insert_term(
    'Example Category Name',
    'category',
    array(
      'description' => 'This is an example category.',
      'slug'    => 'example-category-slug'
    )
  );
}
add_action('groups_group_create_complete', 'example_insert_category');

    Firstly am I on the right track. Secondly how would I set the Category Name and Category Slug using the newly created Group Name and Group Slug?

    Any help would be appreciated

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  • @pandreas

    Participant

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Did you find any solution with this?

    I also have similar problem and want to use a category for each group creation..

    Regards,

    Andreas

    @shanebp

    Moderator

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Try:

    function example_insert_category( $group_id ) {

  $group = groups_get_group( array( 'group_id' => $group_id ) );
  $name = $group->name; 
  $slug = $group->slug; 

  wp_insert_term(
    $name,
    'category',
    array(
      'description' => 'This is an example category.',
      'slug'    => $slug
    )
  );
}
add_action('groups_group_create_complete', 'example_insert_category', 1, 1);

    @pandreas

    Participant

    9 years, 5 months ago

    This works great! Thank you very much for your support.

    When I choose to edit group and change, for example, the group name, of course category name doesn’t change. How can we do that?

    Thank you in advance!

    Regards,

    Andreas

    @sharmavishal

    Participant

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Following this topic

    @pandreas

    Participant

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Is there any answer to this? How we will tell buddypres to change category name when a group name is edited?

    Thank you much!

    Regards,

    Andreas

    @shanebp

    Moderator

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Use the WP function
    https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_update_term

    @valuser

    Participant

    9 years, 4 months ago

    also the following link MAY be of some help

    Please follow the discussion into the chat – just at the time i was very slow on the uptake!

    http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/75261/how-to-when-a-bp-group-created-automatically-create-a-wp-category

    c

    @pandreas

    Participant

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Yes, but how I will use wp_update_term function?

    I have written this:

    function example_update_category( $group_id ) {

    $group = groups_get_group( array( ‘group_id’ => $group_id ) );
    $name = $group->name;
    $groupid = $group->id;

    wp_update_term(
    189, //for a specific category item
    ‘category’,
    array(
    ‘name’ => $name
    )
    );
    }
    add_action( ‘groups_details_updated ‘, ‘example_update_category’, 1, 1 );

    But it doesn’t seem to work. What is wrong? Hook maybe?

    Thank you in advance!

    Andreas

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