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October 10, 2017 at 12:36 am #399742

Joy
Buyer

Post count: 1076

Hello, is there a way to have a post type default to a particular category? I have removed the “Category” selector from the “Add Listing” pages and I will be classifying the listings from the dashboard.

However, upon submitting a listing, I would like a default category applied. Thank you.

October 10, 2017 at 6:25 pm #399868

Paolo
Site Admin

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Hi joy,

it si not possible to remove the category selector from the add listing page, because the category is a mandatory field. What you can do is auto fill the category with jquery and hide the category selector with css.

https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/autofill-category/

Let us know how it goes,

Thanks

October 10, 2017 at 6:27 pm #399869

Kor
Moderator

Post count: 16516

Hi Joy,

Unfortunately, this is currently not possible out of the box. Please feel free to add this to our feature request list. https://wpgeodirectory.com/requests/

Thanks!

October 10, 2017 at 8:24 pm #399893

Joy
Buyer

Post count: 1076

Thank you! It worked. I did have one more question about it. Maybe @stiofan can chime in.

Is there a way to simplify this? I would like the default category to be set for each post type(I have 5) instead of being dependent upon the price package(I have 14).

October 11, 2017 at 9:36 am #399970
Stiofan O’Connor
Site Admin

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You can add multiple like this
```
jQuery(document).ready(function(){

$price_id = jQuery('[name="package_id"]:checked').val();

if($price_id==3 || $price_id==4 || $price_id==10){
jQuery('#gd_placecategory.chosen_select').val('8').change();
}

});
```
Or if its all the one CPT you can just use
```
jQuery(document).ready(function(){

jQuery('#gd_placecategory.chosen_select').val('8').change();

});
```
Stiofan
October 11, 2017 at 10:35 am #399982

Joy
Buyer

Post count: 1076

Perfect. Thank you very much.
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