Title: Inserting categories when creating post
Last modified: July 13, 2022

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# Inserting categories when creating post

 *  Resolved [jaake98](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaake98/)
 * (@jaake98)
 * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inserting-categories-when-creating-post/)
 * When using the create post action, I’m wanting to set categories. For example
   in meta key I’ve used _thumbnail_id to use a pre created image. I’m wanting to
   set categories although a lot of options such as _post_categoires, post_categoires,
   post_category and _post_category doesn’t seem to work. In the value field I’m
   also just putting the ID, e.g. just: 4671

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Uncanny Automator](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uncannyautomator/)
 * (@uncannyautomator)
 * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inserting-categories-when-creating-post/#post-15829089)
 * Hi [@jaake98](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaake98/) ,
 * We have had a few requests for this support (i.e. extending our Create a post
   action to support taxonomy data) and it will be something we add in Q3. We will
   need to add it explicitly to do what you want. I will tentatively close this 
   though since what’s needed isn’t currently supported but is planned.

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