{"id":1282840,"date":"2017-05-12T03:11:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T10:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/categories-not-submitting-tribe_create_event-function\/"},"modified":"2017-05-12T09:22:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T16:22:58","slug":"categories-not-submitting-tribe_create_event-function","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/categories-not-submitting-tribe_create_event-function\/","title":{"rendered":"Categories not Submitting – tribe_create_event function"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m using the tribe_create_event() function to create events programatically. All of the arguments are submitting OK except for categories. ‘post_category’ => array(‘cid_71645129’) is not working. Is there a way to submit events with categories using the tribe_create_event() function?<\/p>\n

$event_data = array(
\n‘post_title’ => $event_title,
\n‘post_status’ => ‘publish’,
\n‘post_author’ => 1,
\n‘EventStartDate’ => $event_date,
\n‘EventEndDate’ => $event_date,
\n‘EventStartHour’ => $event_start_hour,
\n‘EventStartMinute’ => $event_start_minute,
\n‘EventStartMeridian’ => $event_start_meridian,
\n‘EventEndHour’ => $event_end_hour,
\n‘EventEndMinute’ => $event_end_minute,
\n‘EventEndMeridian’ => $event_end_meridian,
\n‘post_category’ => array(‘cid_71645129’)
\n);<\/p>\n

tribe_create_event( $event_data );<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1282840","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nCategories not Submitting - tribe_create_event function -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/categories-not-submitting-tribe_create_event-function\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Categories not Submitting - tribe_create_event function -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I’m using the tribe_create_event() function to create events programatically. All of the arguments are submitting OK except for categories. ‘post_category’ => array(‘cid_71645129’) is not working. 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