Title: Category Sync?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Category Sync?

 *  [robmausser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robmausser/)
 * (@robmausser)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-sync/)
 * Hi there.
 * I am using this to sync two websites with posts.
 * However, the categories are not syncing. How can I get categories to sync? I 
   don’t see category content anywhere in my feed for it to even aggregate:
 * [http://www.redwoodperforms.com/portfolio/feed/](http://www.redwoodperforms.com/portfolio/feed/)
 * Thanks
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 *  Plugin Author [C. Johnson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radgeek/)
 * (@radgeek)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-sync/#post-7352099)
 * Hi Rob,
 * Thanks for getting in touch. You’re correct about the cause of the problem — 
   the feed that you sent me doesn’t contain any category elements. A couple quick
   questions, just so I can better understand the situation and what you might be
   able to do to resolve it —
 * 1. Is this a feed that’s being generated from a custom post type? (Like, from
   Portfolio Items or something similar, which are stored in the source site’s wp_posts
   table but which are not listed as ordinary posts?)
 * 2. Do you have control over both ends of this transaction? I.e., I notice that
   the source site here is a WordPress site as well; do you have direct access to
   the admin interface and settings for the source site that you’re trying to pull
   the posts from?
 * Thanks,
    -C
 *  Thread Starter [robmausser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robmausser/)
 * (@robmausser)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-sync/#post-7352104)
 * Hey thanks for the response!
 * The answer is:
 * 1. Yes. Its a Portfolio post type
 * 2. Yes, I own both sites.
 * Thanks!
 *  Plugin Author [C. Johnson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radgeek/)
 * (@radgeek)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-sync/#post-7352135)
 * Okay, thanks. Sorry I’ve been slow in getting back to you.
 * So, I did some quick testing and double-checking on custom post types and the
   feeds that they generate, and it looks to me like your source site’s feed **OUGHT**
   to be including categories in the feed **IF** your custom post type uses the 
   built-in WordPress Categories or Tags taxonomies (i.e., the same set of Categories
   or Tags that is used for posts); but by default it will **NOT** include categories
   from any other, custom taxonomy. So, are the categories you’re trying to sync
   here from a Custom Taxonomy (for example, are they called like “Portfolio Categories”
   or something similar like that)? If so, then the bad news is that WordPress won’t
   put this information into the feed according to its off-the-shelf behavior. But
   the good news is that since you control both ends of the transaction, it’s relatively
   easy to do some custom programming with a small PHP script to make it put the
   needed information onto the feed.
 * If that’s **NOT** the situation, then something deeper is going wrong that will
   require some more in-depth trouble-shooting.
 * So, just to check in real quick — is the situation that you’re using a Custom
   Taxonomy which you’re trying to sync from the source site to the destination 
   site? Or no? Or are you not sure?
 * Thanks,
    -C

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 * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-sync/#post-7352135)
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