Title: Make category required?
Last modified: April 26, 2018

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# Make category required?

 *  Resolved [jemigirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jemigirl/)
 * (@jemigirl)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-category-required/)
 * Hi Greg,
 * Is it possible to make choosing a category required when a user posts an ad?
 * Thanks,
    Julie

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 *  Plugin Author [Greg Winiarski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwin/)
 * (@gwin)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-category-required/#post-10223848)
 * Hi,
    yes it is possible, you can do that by adding the code below in your theme
   functions.php file
 *     ```
       add_filter( "adverts_form_load", "make_advert_category_required" );
       function make_advert_category_required( $form ) {
         if( $form['name'] != "advert" ) {
           return $form;
         }
         foreach( $form["field"] as $key => $field ) {
           if( $field["name"] == "advert_category" ) {
               $form["field"][$key]["validator"][] = array( "name"=> "is_required" );
           }
         }
         return $form;
       }
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [Greg Winiarski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwin/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-category-required/#post-10223848)
 * Status: resolved