Hi there !

I want to share a little trick to map discussions categories with articles categories and I hope to find this in a future version.

My idea is simple, just put the same alias in content categories AND easydiscuss categories to map them.

File : plugins/content/easydiscuss/easydiscuss.php

Change line 618

$data['category_id'] = $params->get('category_storage', 1);

To,

// Map discussion category with article category if alias are the same

$db = JFactory::getDbo();

$db->setQuery("SELECT b.id FROM #__categories AS a LEFT JOIN #__discuss_category AS b ON a.alias =                  b.alias WHERE b.alias = '" . $article->category_alias . "'");

$row = $db->loadRow();

if( !empty($row) ) {

	$data['category_id'] = $row[0];

} else {

	$data['category_id'] = $params->get('category_storage', 1);			

}

Enjoy