I am setting a taxonomy based on the post_status. It works as needed except I want to allow the taxonomy to be overridden if a particular taxonomy is selected.

Here is the code

function add_categories_automatically($postID) {
    if(get_post_status($postID) == 'draft'){
        $catsID = array(1); //active
        wp_set_post_categories($postID, $catsID);
    }
    if(get_post_status($postID) == 'publish'){
        $catsID = array(5); //complete
        wp_set_post_categories($postID, $catsID);
    }
    if(get_post_status($postID) == 'publish' && has_category( 'billed' ) ){
        $catsID = array(16); //billed
        wp_set_post_categories($postID, $catsID);
    }
}
add_action('save_post', 'add_categories_automatically');

On the last if statement I have tried to use && to set a new category if the post is published AND the category billed is selected. It just keeps being set as id 5 from the previous if statement.

Any ideas on how I can make the last if statement work?

I am setting a taxonomy based on the post_status. It works as needed except I want to allow the taxonomy to be overridden if a particular taxonomy is selected.

Here is the code

function add_categories_automatically($postID) {
    if(get_post_status($postID) == 'draft'){
        $catsID = array(1); //active
        wp_set_post_categories($postID, $catsID);
    }
    if(get_post_status($postID) == 'publish'){
        $catsID = array(5); //complete
        wp_set_post_categories($postID, $catsID);
    }
    if(get_post_status($postID) == 'publish' && has_category( 'billed' ) ){
        $catsID = array(16); //billed
        wp_set_post_categories($postID, $catsID);
    }
}
add_action('save_post', 'add_categories_automatically');

On the last if statement I have tried to use && to set a new category if the post is published AND the category billed is selected. It just keeps being set as id 5 from the previous if statement.

Any ideas on how I can make the last if statement work?

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• 1 Try passing the post ID into the has_category() check since you're not in the loop. – WebElaine Commented Feb 22, 2022 at 21:30
• @WebElaine that makes sense, any clues on how I would actually do that? :) – Nik Commented Feb 23, 2022 at 1:57
• 1 Change has_category( 'billed' ) to has_category( 'billed', $postID ). – WebElaine Commented Feb 23, 2022 at 13:37
• @WebElaine That also defaulted to the category above, but I then tried setting a variable for all the post statuses and has_category matching. I will post below, it works but if I'm doing something that doesn't make sense please let me know. Thanks for your input, appreciated! – Nik Commented Feb 23, 2022 at 16:34

1 Answer 1

This is what works with the help of WebElaine above. I had to pass the postID to has_category() and then set variables.

function add_categories_automatically($postID) {
    $p_published = get_post_status($postID) == 'publish';
    $p_draft = get_post_status($postID) == 'draft';
    $p_cat = has_category( 'billed', $postID);  
    
    if ($p_draft == 'draft'){
        $catsID = array(1); //active
        wp_set_post_categories($postID, $catsID);
    }
    if ($p_published == 'publish'){
        $catsID = array(5); //complete
        wp_set_post_categories($postID, $catsID);
    }
    if($p_published == 'publish' && $p_cat ){
        $catsID = array(16); //billed
        wp_set_post_categories($postID, $catsID);
    }
}
add_action('save_post', 'add_categories_automatically');