How to automatically populate a checkboxes options

[casagentili]

Hi there,

I’m wondering if possible to populate checkboxes option list, automatically, e.g. list should contain all “post titles” for posts with a specified Category.

This means as soon as a new post is published with selected Category, the checkbox option list should contain a new item, the new post title

thanks

[Ally]

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[casagentili]

Hi Ally,

thansk for your script, it works well for me as well, axcept the following

1) when the post category is changed after the post is published there is no offect onto the checkboxes list (e.g.
– the post is linked to the category and published => post title is showed up in the form checkbox list (correct)
– within the the same post, the catergory is unchecked => the post title is still showed up in the checkboxlist (wrong)

2) The checkbox list shows up max 3 post titles (I tried to add more posts but the oldest one is always removed from the list)

thanks
Marco

[Ally]

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[casagentili]

Ally,

1) I refrasched the page by ctr F5; the list is still limited to 3 items.

2) I changed the line according to your new version; the checkbox now contains all the posts (not only the ones realated to selected category)

Also, I don’t have a category ID (i.e a nuber like the 9 you mention in your code); I may identify categories slugs, so my code is:

$query = new WP_Query(array(‘cat’ => lista-dei-desideri, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1));

where lista-dei-desideri is the category slug, I also tried to put the slug in single quote ‘ ‘ and double quote ” “, still didn’t worked

is there something wrong in what I did ?

Marco

[Ally]

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[casagentili]

wow! looks very triky,

now I got it, and your code works perfectly

many thanks
Marco

[Mindaugas]

Perfect solution! But is there way to use this code for different taxonomy? In my theme I use portfolio posts with taxonomy “skills”. Here is example of portolio page template:


*SNIP*


Can be anyting done, that this solution would work with my portfolio posts?

[Ally]

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[Mindaugas]

Thank you.

Can you please delete my previous post with portfolio template code?

[Ally]

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[Brian]

Is it possible to use this code to automatically populate a dropdown menu with all of the posts titles within a certain category as you did above for the checkboxes?

[Ally]

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[Brian]

I have added the code above to the functions.php, and updated all numbers/form values/and names as requested in the advice you gave.

Is there anything that I have to do when creating the form itself? Anything special to check or write?

Also are there any variables I should change since this is a scroll down menu rather than a checkbox?

Thank you

Brian

[Brian]

Please ignore that last post (you can remove it and this one)….thank you for your help….the above information works perfectly!

[Author]

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