# Sync Wordpress and Discourse categories

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/sync-wordpress-and-discourse-categories/236966>\
**Category:** WordPress\
**Created:** [August 23, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sync-wordpress-and-discourse-categories/236966 "2022-08-23T14:43:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Genyus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/genyus/32/119655_2.png) [@Genyus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Genyus)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 3:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sync-wordpress-and-discourse-categories/236966/2 "2022-08-24T03:58:14Z")

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This code isn’t fully tested and would need error handling/safety checks/logging for production use, but should get you started:

```plaintext
add_action( 'create_category', 'discourse_create_category', 10, 1 );
function discourse_create_category( $term_id ) {
	$category = get_term_by( 'id', $term_id, 'category' );
	$name = $category->name;
	$path = '/categories.json';
	// Use the WPDiscourse plugin to generate a new category
	new \WPDiscourse\Utilities\PublicPluginUtilities()->discourse_request(
		$path,
		[
			'method' => 'POST',
			'name' => $name,
		]
	);
}

add_action( 'set_object_terms', 'discourse_set_object_terms', 10, 1 );
function discourse_set_object_terms( $object_id ) {
	if ( ! metadata_exists( 'post', $object_id, 'publish_to_discourse' ) ) {
		// Enable publishing in Discourse, during initial save only.
		update_post_meta( $object_id, 'publish_to_discourse', true );
		$discourse_publish_option = get_option( 'discourse_publish' );
		// set the Discourse category based on WP category
		if ( is_array( $discourse_publish_option ) && array_key_exists( 'publish-category', $discourse_publish_option ) ) {
			$categories_list = wp_get_post_categories( $object_id );
			update_post_meta( $object_id, 'publish_post_category', $categories_list[0]->name );
		}
	}
}

```

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