Josh Hartman

<p>Tired of uncategorized posts? Use this simple plugin to require users to choose a post category before updating or publishing a post. By default this only applies to normal posts. If you wish to require a category/taxonomy for a custom post type see the FAQ for filter hook usage examples.</p>
<h4>Translators</h4>
<ul>
<li>French (fr_FR) – Dominique V.</li>
<li>Spanish (es_ES) – <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Andrew Kurtis – WebHostingHub</a></li>
<li>Polish (pl_PL) – Michał Papliński</li>
<li>Finnish (fi) – Sanapaino</li>
</ul>
<p>If you have created your own language pack, or have an update of an existing one, you can send the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">PO and MO files</a> to <a href="https://www.warpconduit.net/contact" rel="nofollow ugc">me</a> so that I can bundle it into the plugin. <a href="https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/require-post-category/trunk/languages/require-post-category.pot" rel="nofollow ugc">Download the latest POT file</a>.</p>


Require Post Category

This plugin is fantastic, and I was very easily able to customize it to work with my custom post types and custom taxonomies. Great work, thanks!

Easy to customize

Simply install the plugin and activate. Works with both classic and block editors. Nice work.

Easy and Effective

Require users to choose a post category before updating or publishing a post.

Denis Yanchevskiy

<p>Allows you to make post, page, custom post elements required: title, content, featured image.</p>
<p>After installing the plugin, you need to go to the Settings -> DCO Post Validator to specify the required elements.</p>


DCO Post Validator

Allows you to make post, page, custom post elements required: title, content, featured image.

Require Post Category vs DCO Post Validator