{"id":4290,"date":"2022-08-22T05:15:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T23:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-front-end-post-form-wont-post-categories-to-custom-post-type\/"},"modified":"2022-08-22T05:15:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T23:45:58","slug":"solved-front-end-post-form-wont-post-categories-to-custom-post-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-front-end-post-form-wont-post-categories-to-custom-post-type\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Front end post form won&#8217;t post categories to custom post type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-95768\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"95768\" data-parentid=\"95757\" data-score=\"0\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>I see two problems with your code:<\/p>\n<p>First You named your custom taxonomy <code>type<\/code> which is a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Function_Reference\/register_taxonomy#Reserved_Terms\">Reserved Term<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second You are trying to insert your taxonomy terms using <code>'post_category'<\/code> which wont get the job done. What you can do is either create a `&#8217;tax_input&#8217; =&gt; array(&#8216;  in your new post array e.g:<\/p>\n<pre><code>$new_post = array(\n    'post_title'   =&gt; stripslashes($title),\n    'post_content' =&gt; stripslashes($description),\n    'tags_input'   =&gt; stripslashes($tags),\n    'post_status'  =&gt; 'publish', \/\/ Choose: publish, preview, future, draft, etc.\n    'post_type'    =&gt; 'user_lists', \/\/'post',page' or use a custom post type if you want to\n    'tax_input'    =&gt; array(\n        'type'  =&gt; $_POST['type'],\n        'state' =&gt; $_POST['state'],\n    )\n);\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>or you can leave your code the way it is and use <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Function_Reference\/wp_set_object_terms\"><strong><code>wp_set_object_terms<\/code><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nafter you get the new post ID e.g:<\/p>\n<pre><code>\/\/SAVE THE POST\n$pid = wp_insert_post($new_post);\nwp_set_object_terms( $pid, $_POST['type'], 'type' );\nwp_set_object_terms( $pid, $_POST['state'], 'state' );\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Update:<\/p>\n<p>You need to make your register_taxonomy calls inside a hooked function so move then into your portfilio_register function and also give the action hooks priority e.g:<\/p>\n<pre><code>add_action('init', 'portfolio_register',100); \nfunction portfolio_register() {\n\n    $labels = array(\n        'name' =&gt; _x('User Lists', 'post type general name'),\n        'singular_name' =&gt; _x('User List', 'post type singular name'),\n        'add_new' =&gt; _x('Add New', 'list item'),\n        'add_new_item' =&gt; __('Add New List'),\n        'edit_item' =&gt; __('Edit List Item'),\n        'new_item' =&gt; __('New List Item'),\n        'view_item' =&gt; __('View List Item'),\n        'search_items' =&gt; __('Search Lists'),\n        'not_found' =&gt;  __('Nothing found'),\n        'not_found_in_trash' =&gt; __('Nothing found in Trash'),\n        'parent_item_colon' =&gt; ''\n    );\n\n    $args = array(\n    'labels' =&gt; $labels,\n    'public' =&gt; true, \n    'publicly_queryable' =&gt; true,\n    'show_ui' =&gt; true,\n    'query_var' =&gt; true,\n    'menu_icon' =&gt; get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '\/img\/cutleries.png',\n    'rewrite' =&gt; true,\n    'capability_type' =&gt; 'post',\n    'hierarchical' =&gt; false,\n    'show_admin_column' =&gt; true,\n    'menu_position' =&gt; null,\n    'taxonomies' =&gt; array('post_tag', 'list_type', 'list_state'),\n    'supports' =&gt; array('title',\n        'editor',\n        'author',\n        'custom-fields',\n        'comments')\n          );\n\n    register_post_type( 'user_lists' , $args ); \n    register_taxonomy(\"list_type\", array(\"user_lists\"), array(\"hierarchical\" =&gt; true, \"label\" =&gt; \"List Types\", \"singular_label\" =&gt; \"List Type\", \"rewrite\" =&gt; true, 'show_admin_column' =&gt; true,)); \n    register_taxonomy(\"list_state\", array(\"user_lists\"), array(\"hierarchical\" =&gt; true, \"label\" =&gt; \"List State\", \"singular_label\" =&gt; \"List State\", \"rewrite\" =&gt; true, 'show_admin_column' =&gt; true,));\n}\n\nadd_action('init', 'catch_save_form',101);\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>As for your shortcode function you should return a value on a shortcode and not echo or print it out.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">10<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Front end post form won&#8217;t post categories to custom post type <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] I see two problems with your code: First You named your custom taxonomy type which is a Reserved Term Second You are trying to insert your taxonomy terms using &#8216;post_category&#8217; which wont get the job done. 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