I am attempting to migrate large amounts of data from a non-WP-like CMS into WordPress and I'm trying to find an efficient way to assign batches of posts to a category.wp_set_post_categories()
takes a single post and an array of categories to add it to. Is there anything more efficient than simply looping through an array of post id's and calling wp_set_post_categories()
on each one with a call to the database each time?
Your best option may be to run a SQL query to set the category on all of the posts in one go.
global $wpdb;
$category = get_category(get_query_var('category'));
$term_taxonomy_id = $category->term_taxonomy_id;
$wpdb->query("
INSERT INTO $wpdb->term_relationships
( object_id, term_taxonomy_id, term_order )
SELECT
ID AS object_id,
$term_taxonomy_id AS term_taxonomy_id,
0 AS term_order
FROM
$wpdb->posts
");
Update: then to update the field that counts the number of posts the category has.
$wpdb->query("
UPDATE $wpdb->term_taxonomy
SET `count` = (SELECT COUNT(ID) FROM wp_posts)
WHERE term_taxonomy_id = $term_taxonomy_id
");