Thread: Custom category selection required

Custom category selection required

I have set up my site to have a category structure like LOCATION each of which will have a child like REAL ESTATE (or something else) which will again have a child like (For sale, For Rent etc) Now I have 2000+ categories. I need to modify my form post page so that. It will have three drop down fields.

1) Location (with list of locations)
2) Category (with list of categories)
3) Status (With status)

I have set the slug for categories to be location-category-status. What I want to achieve is insted of using the category selection on your form (impossible for 2000 categories) user the wordpress get id from slug to specify the category I want to add it to. How do i do that?

Re: Custom category selection required

There is a nice write up by one of our customers who explains how to add new fields.

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Re: Custom category selection required

Thank you. Not what I had in mind but I did work out a solution will let you know once everything is working okay.