EOM Designate Primary Post Category

Designate a primary category for posts.

Description

Enhance post categories by adding a primary category. Use this plugin to add a dropdown of categories to the Categories meta box in the Post edit screen. Content creators can determine the primary category from that dropdown list.

Installation

Download

1. Visit the homepage for this plugin: https://github.com/joshsmith01/eom-designate-primary-post-category
2. Download the .zip file
3. Unzip the .zip to you computer
4. Upload eom-designate-primary-post-category.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
5. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress

Git

1. Open a terminal and navigate to the wp-content/plugins directory
2. Clone the repo: git clone git@github.com:joshsmith01/eom-designate-primary-post-category.git

Frequently Asked Questions

Will I lose my categories if I stop using this plugin?

No, this plugin essentially duplicates the existing categories meta data and adds a primary category to it. If you delete this plugin, all of the categories will remain.

Changelog

1.0.0

• Initial launch

Query for posts with a Primary Category

Now that you have a Primary Category attached to your posts you will want to query for posts based on their Primary Category. Below is a quick snippet that uses the built-in WordPress Query to retrieve posts with the Primary Category of your specification. The important part of the query is the supplied arguments that use the Meta Key of _primary_category.

In the snippet below, the meta_value of "Happy" is supplied, but it should be whatever value of your Primary Category is that you want to display. The snippet below is also searching in the WordPress post type of "post", but also the WordPress Custom Post type of "book".

Don't forget to check if the plugin is active first.

<?php
include_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/plugin.php' );
if( is_plugin_active( 'eom-designate-primary-post-category/eom-designate-primary-post-category.php' ) ) {
    // EOM designate Primary Post Category is active
    $args = array(
        'meta_value' => 'Happy',
        'meta_key' => '_primary_category',
        'post_type'  => array('book', 'post'),
    );
    $query = new WP_Query( $args );
}

Find more information about querying by Post Meta in the WordPress Developer Documentation.

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