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.

Jatinder Pal Singh

<p>This is a simple plugin which is designed to help the posters who some times forget to select the post category and post is published under default category. Once activated, this plugin will force the users to select post category while adding new post to wordpress site. Whenever User tries to publish a post without selecting category, it will give an alert to the user and also highlight the category selection area so that user can see from where to select the post category.<br />
Moreover, If poster hasn’t selected the category while clicking on publish button, it will save the post as draft under default, so no need to worry about loosing the post content in any case due to this plugin.</p>


Force Post Category Selection

Just found this little gem of a plugin. Its so simple to use, literally just install then forget about it. I have two categories, and needed to make sure at least one of them was selected. This did the job perfectly. Thanks!

Install, then forget. A+

This is simple plugin which forces the users to select atleast one category from the list while publishing a new post.

Require Post Category vs Force Post Category Selection