Hi Anders,
Thank you. I will have this option today 🙂

About the 2nd option, That depends on the size of the community. If there are 1000 users, It is not too much but if there are 100,000 users, then It will take a lot of time as we will have to check the preference for individual users if it is set or not and then update.

If we plan to implement it in future, It will be all about time as PHP scripts have time limit, the update will be like doing it in batches. So, It is not going to consume all resources but take a lot of time for the larger community.

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.