Hi,
I took a look at the thread you mentioned and it gets a little confusing for me…sorry.
So I hope you can provide some simple steps needed to convert the plugin to work with categories instead of tags. I’ll still be using your original APT plugin for tagging, so please, if you can, show me how to modify the plugin for categories so that it doesn’t conflict with the original plugin.
This is what I’ve gathered so far.
1) That we need to modify the original plugin’s code and that we can run the two plugins simultaneously, one for tagging and one for setting categories. That’s fine with me, but I need to know how to modify the plugin.
2) So far I understand that we need to replace all occurrences of “apt_” with something like “abc_”. This will rename the added option names and the custom database table.
3) Then I understand we need to rename the plugin to something else. Where do we do that or do we? Maybe that is what the step above does?
4) And I gather that we need to change the “post_tag” parameter to “category”. I see someone mentioned to find all mentions of ‘post’ and change those to ‘category’. Can you tell me which lines to do that on? Or can I simply do the Find/Replace function to change all the mentions of ‘posts’ to “category’?
5) Then I see the same person mentioned to look for ## ADDING TAGS TO THE POST, then to add something like:
foreach ($apc_tags_to_add_array as $apc_cat) {
$term = get_term_by('name', $apc_tag, 'category');
$apc_tag_ids[] = $term->term_id; }
Where exactly would we add that? Would it go right after the line that says ## ADDING TAGS TO THE POST?
6) Then he said to replace
wp_set_post_terms($post_id, $apc_tags_to_add_array, ‘category’, true); //append tags
with…
wp_set_post_terms($post_id, $apc_tag_ids, ‘category’, true); //append tags
And to repeat it with the same function immediately below. I see that but want to make sure.
Instead of being all over the place, can you please list the steps needed to modify the plugin so that works along side the original APT plugin.
The whole process is not clear on that thread so was hoping you could clear it up here with a few simple steps.
Thanks
