Changing default categories

Posted on May 17th, 2006 @ 7:22 pm in Wordpress.

As I couldn’t find a plugin to automatically assign a (different) default category for “guest” users, I’ve had to do a little hacking.

I’ve added a little to the wp-admin/admin-functions.php file, all in the get_nested_categories() function.

function get_nested_categories($default = 0, $parent = 0) {
global $post_ID, $mode, $wpdb, $userdata;

get_currentuserinfo();
if ($post_ID) {
…

and have replaced:

} else {
$checked_categories[] = $default;
}

with

} else {
if ($userdata->ID == 1) { // If it’s me
$checked_categories[] = $default;
} else {
$checked_categories[] = 5; // The category number for “Guest posts”
}
}

All I have to do now, of course, is remember I’ve done this the next time there’s an update!

 

One response

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    The Bishop says:

    Added on May 17th, 2006 at 8:11 pm

    I wish I understood.

    Em3: Ah, but the whole point is that you don’t now have to, your Eminence.

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