I don't succeed in publishing two different categories on wordpress

[Salvatore_Pugliese]

Hi there community! I have a minor problem that is puzzling me a lot. I am having a very simple flow, where from a Gsheet I am creating an article.

In the gsheet there are 4 columns that are called “categories” that should serve to “tick” the right category in wordpress.

I am using the categories Id in this row and they are the same categories that are on wordpress.
Everytime that I am running the scenario I succeed in “pairing” the categories only if the first row is numbered and the others are blanks. If there are two or more rows numbered (with categories Id) then wordpress is publishing the article without coupling with any category
In the wordpress module I gave the right association, I think.

Could anyone help me? I am getting mad over this.
thank you

[samliew]

Welcome to the Make community!

To do this, you can use the built-in function add —

{{ add(array; value1; value2; ...) }}

e.g.: (paste this into the field)

{{ add(emptyarray; 1.categoryA; 1.categoryB; 1.categoryC; 1.categoryD) }}

For more information, the function’s documentation can be found in the Help Centre. You should also complete the tutorials in the Make Academy.

You’ll need to insert the categories as an array of ids.

Then, use an iterator on the array so that you can process each category at a time.

Create new category using the name.

Then, if category exists, there will be an error. Handle the error by searching for the category, and resuming with the existing category ID.

Then, aggregate the category IDs into an array using the Array Aggregator.

You can then insert the array of category IDs into the tag/category field.

Similarly, this works the same way for the Wordpress Tags field.

For more information, see How to deal with WordPress errors

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

— @samliew

P.S.: Investing some effort into the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make.

[Salvatore_Pugliese]

Samliew! it worked PERFECTLY, just adding this → {{ add(emptyarray; 1.categoryA; 1.categoryB; 1.categoryC; 1.categoryD) }} I tried to generate the article and magic happened…three category put in place.

thank you very much

[samliew]

No problem, really glad I could help!

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