Title: Categories selection
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Categories selection

 *  [webstationone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webstationone/)
 * (@webstationone)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-selection/)
 * Different websites usually have different categories, therefore rather than broadcasting
   categories, what I would like to see is the ability to select to which categories
   of the destination website to broadcast to. For example if the checkbox of Website
   1 is checked, categories of Website 1 should be displayed as checkboxes so I 
   could select the proper categories at the destination website which might differ
   of the origin website. If this is possible, we are willing to pay for the add-
   on, of course if the price is reasonable.
 * Please let us know if you can add this ability and how much it would cost.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/threewp-broadcast/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/threewp-broadcast/)

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 *  Plugin Author [edward_plainview](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edward_plainview/)
 * (@edward_plainview)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-selection/#post-4352895)
 * What you’re asking is quite complicated. What is preventing you from having the
   same categories on the two blogs?
 *  Thread Starter [webstationone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webstationone/)
 * (@webstationone)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-selection/#post-4352907)
 * Well,
 * What we aim is to provide content from our content bank to all websites in our
   network.
 * Each website is owned by different people, therefore changing or creating new
   categories is not an option.
 * Every website has its own purpose and has been planned and built to accomplish
   their own goals, as well as the needs and vision of the individual or organization
   behind the project. This is why the categories name and structure has to be unique
   for each one.
 * However, when it comes to the content, we have articles that fit in different
   categories. For example, an article talking about “Start up companies in Israel”,
   would fit in Economics in a website while it fits in Middle East in the other.¿
   Does this make sense?
 *  Plugin Author [edward_plainview](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edward_plainview/)
 * (@edward_plainview)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-selection/#post-4352913)
 * It does. It’s also painfully difficult. But if it needs to be done, then it needs
   to be done.
 * Mail me and we can speak about the details.
 * [edward@plainview.se](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-selection/edward@plainview.se?output_format=md)
 *  [flynsarmy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flynsarmy/)
 * (@flynsarmy)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-selection/#post-4353038)
 * We’ve also been having issues with categories (though we were on 3WPBroadcast
   v1.8 so this may have been fixed since then). It seemed that the broadcasted 
   post copied the category ID’s of the original post – which led to broadcasted
   posts having unwanted categories checked (ie the categories were renamed on the
   target blog, or new categories were created on original + target but with different
   names and so on).
 * A better solution would be while broadcasting to a given blog, grab that blogs
   category list. If the category name AND ID match up, apply that category.
 * But as I said, I’m unsure if this has already been fixed since 1.8. Working on
   updating the plugin now once the issues in my [other thread](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/patch-undefined-variable-warning?replies=4)
   have been fixed.
 *  Plugin Author [edward_plainview](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edward_plainview/)
 * (@edward_plainview)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-selection/#post-4353045)
 * The older versions still contain various bugs, and I’m not really into going 
   into legacy code to backport the fixes, seeing that the whole structure of the
   plugin has changed dramatically between v1 and v2.

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