How do you get ScribeFire to post to specific category?
By Gregg Patberg on Sunday, 01 March 2015
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Greetings:

Using the tutorial in this forum post -- http://stackideas.com/forums/scribefire-configuration
I was able to get ScribeFire to post articles into the Blog Listing -BUT- the post comes to EasyBlog without a category attached (Category is -blank-) to the blog post. (I deleted the "uncategorized" category)

How do you get a blog post from ScribeFire to go/post to a specific category?

The website is uesigep.org. The Category that I am trying to publish to is Chapter News with an ID of 3.

Thanks
OK - So I don't know if I did the right thing but I got this to work ... please tell me if there is a better solution ... here is how I did it.

Since I deleted the Category - "Uncategorized" which I had SQL Category ID of "1" ... I went into MyPhPAdmin and changed the category "Chapter News" from Category ID "3" to ID "1" and now ScribeFire/EasyBlog automatically set the category for new blog posts to Chapter News since the Category ID is now "1".

Do you have a better solution?
Gregg Patberg
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Sunday, 01 March 2015 09:12
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Hello Gregg,

Your solution will also works and the other solution is to change the category in the code itself. But there is a disadvantage of modify the code. When you updating Easyblog in the future, you have to re-apply the hack again because it will get overwritten.
Nik Faris
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Sunday, 01 March 2015 10:11
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Hi Nik,

So, will my solution be overwritten during the next update? What do you suggest so that I do not have to redo the hack each time there is an update?
Gregg Patberg
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Sunday, 01 March 2015 10:20
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Hello Gregg,

Your solution will not get updated and it is a better solution. Because with my solution which is modifying the file, it will get updated when you updating Easyblog in the future. You can keep using your solution.
Nik Faris
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Sunday, 01 March 2015 10:27
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