Hi Hans,
Can you please open a new topic with enhancement. Let us leave this topic for Delyth.

I have added some enhancement 2-3 days ago to the plugin and will be happy to continue doing that 🙂

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Devin,
1. Please upgrade to simple front end post plugin version 1.2.2

2. Please put the following code in your bp-custom.php

add_filter( 'buddyblog_post_form_settings', 'buddyblog_show_custom_cats', 100 );

function buddyblog_show_custom_cats( $settings ) {
	$tax = array();
	 
	$tax['category'] = array(

		'taxonomy'		=> 'category',
		'view_type'		=> 'dd',
		'child_of'		=> 29 //CHAGE It with the correct ID
	);
	
	$settings['tax'] = $tax;
	
	return $settings;
}

Change the vale of child_of with the actual ID of your “User Blog” category.

That will show the dropdown list on Post Create/edit. will work for any level deep.

Now, to show the category parents, Please make sure you copy wp-content/plugins/buddyblog/template/buddyblog folder to your theme. So, now you have yourtheme/buddyblog folder where three files are there. These files are used to display the BuddyBlog post etc on user profile.

Now, check for the file/code that generates link to category. In that file, you will see code like this

get_the_category_list( ', '  )

Please change that to

get_the_category_list( ', ','single' ) )

After that, try posting and see if it works. Please do let me know how it went for you.

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Devin,
I have got the first case working. I had to modify the simple front end post plugin slight to accommodate child_of argument for taxonomy.

I have a question about your last requirement. Why not we just assign the child selected category only to the post and while listing, we list from that child to the top level.

A post in any child category of a category will also appear in the archive of the parent category of the selected category, so that is never a problem.

Hi Devin,
Welcome to the BuddyDev forum and thank you for Buying the support.

Your details and very clear and concise. If I understand correctly, all we need to do is allow the users to select from sub category of the User blogs and when the post is saved assign the sub category as well as parent category?

If that is correct, please give me a couple of hours and I will post the code.

PS: We are phasing out all other support channels in favor of this support forum.

Confirmed, Limit no. of posts feature is not working. It seems I have missed something. I will need upto 24 hours as I need to look deeper and update the plugin.

Thank you
Brajesh