Create category on user sign up

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    Please do not edit core files, it can cause problems down the line. In addition, your changes could be lost with the next update.

    Try hooking the action ‘register_user’ and inserting your category from there.

    It’s moot when using hooks, but you shouldn’t need to require once taxonomy.php. It is loaded as part of the request to wp_-login.php.

    Thread Starter faidoc

    (@faidoc)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    I must be missing something now

    I’ve included this in my functions.php

    add_action('user_register', 'auto_create_category');

function auto_create_category($user_id) {

    $category_fields = array('cat_name' => $_POST['first_name'],
	'category_description' => '',
	'category_nicename' => $_POST['first_name'],
	'category_parent' => ''
	);
	$category_fields_id = wp_insert_category($category_fields);

}

    But when I register a user, the screen goes white. The user is created, but fails creating the category

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    I see you corrected for my dyslexic “register_user”, sorry about that.

    Doesn’t appear to be the problem, but it’s a good idea to check if an array key exists in $_POST before trying to use it unless there is some javascript in place to ensure the field always has content.

    Actually, I’m not seeing the problem either. To get a better clue on what’s causing the blank white screen, define WP_DEBUG as true on wp-config.php, then do another test registration. Just don’t leave it as true for very long on a production site, it’s a small security risk.

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