[Plugin: Quick Post Widget] Suggestion to tweak the choice of categories

Hi,
Thanks for the suggestion. I also had some support questions in mail about this so I am working on it.
Perry

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Could you share your solution on this?
I would be very thankful!

Hi wabuffet,
If you’re displaying the catogories in a droplist then you can change the line which says:

wp_dropdown_categories(‘hide_empty=0&name=quick_post_cat&hierarchical=1’);

to

….hierarchical=1&exclude=1,3,9′);

where 1,3,9 is the list of ID’s to exclude in your droplist.

You can find the ID’s by hovering over the Categories in your dashboard and remembering the ID in your statusline or just click them, for instance:

https://yoursite.com/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?action=edit&taxonomy=category&post_type=post&tag_ID=1)

Good luck,
Perry

Thanks a lot!

Hello all,

Along these lines, if you want it to default to only one category, so all of the posts from this form would end up in the category you specify, you can use ‘include’ and the appropriate category number:

…hide_empty=0&name=quick_post_cat&hierarchical=1&include=120

I wasn’t smart enough to figure out how hide that all together for the form, but there is probably a way.

Fantastic plugin inapan! The possibilities for User Generated Content sites are unlimited. Do you have a donation box anywhere? I’d love to help you working on this one. My wishlist would be:

Visual Editor in the form, not a pop up.
Select only one category and remove that from the form.
Scale uploaded images to a certain width

Good Luck to all,
Jim

Amazing. Thanks. Just what I was looking for. Love this plugin!

@all
Today I uploaded version 1.7.3 which has the option to include or exclude certain categories, as well as defining a default category. If only one category is permitted and the default category is that one category and the option to create a new category is disabled, the complete category section hides itself.
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