Title: Polylang Category Creator
Author: merk_cat
Published: <strong>October 28, 2016</strong>
Last modified: December 6, 2017

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# Polylang Category Creator

 By [merk_cat](https://profiles.wordpress.org/merksk8/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/polylang-category-creator.1.5.zip)

 * [Details](https://tzm.wordpress.org/plugins/polylang-category-creator/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://tzm.wordpress.org/plugins/polylang-category-creator/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://tzm.wordpress.org/plugins/polylang-category-creator/#installation)
 * [Development](https://tzm.wordpress.org/plugins/polylang-category-creator/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/polylang-category-creator/)

## Description

This plugin allows to create categories for Posts, Woocommerce Products, or other
taxonomies.
 In the admin page, it detects your Polylang languages and builds a 
form to create the category for each language in the same page, creating all at 
same time.

If having trouble post the issue on support section.

#### Available Fields

 * Taxonomy (dropdown select)
 * Parent Category (dropdown select)
 * Category Name
 * Category Slug
 * Category description

#### Languages

 * English
 * Spanish
 * Catalan(New)

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * How it looks.

## Installation

 1. Upload this plugin to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
 3. Go to Multilang-Cat section to create categories for all languages.

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

 1. Upload this plugin to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
 3. Go to Multilang-Cat section to create categories for all languages.

  What requires?

Only Polylang Plugin.

  How it Works?

Select the taxonomy, optionally select category for parent, and fill each language
for create the categories.

  Does it work with custom taxonomies?

Tested with Woocommerce, Category and Tags for posts. It should work with custom
taxonomies, if not, you can ask for it in support page.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[This tool saves time](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-tool-saves-time/)󠁿

 [mchansy](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mchansy/) December 10, 2019

I like this tool as it has saved me a lot of time by creating categories.

 [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/polylang-category-creator/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Polylang Category Creator” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ merk_cat ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/merksk8/)

[Translate “Polylang Category Creator” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/polylang-category-creator)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/polylang-category-creator/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/polylang-category-creator/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/polylang-category-creator/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/polylang-category-creator/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.5

 * Added Catalan language
 * Edited some interface
 * Corrected some language translations

#### 1.4

 * Removed update system
 * Added Nonce field for form
 * Added validating for form:
    ** set CATEGORY NAME (2 to 26 length) ** set CATEGORY
   SLUG (0 to 26 length) ** set CATEGORY DESCRIPTION (0 to 40 length)
 * Added sanitize for NAME, SLUG, DESCRIPTION
 * Added check taxonomy_exists() for Taxonomy selected
 * Changed the translations to esc_html_e()

#### 1.3

 * Added a temporary update system through GitHub, hope get in wordpress directory
   and use default wordpress system 🙂

#### 1.2

 * Changed the Taxonomy picker and Parent Category
 * Added some protection when creating category to filter the fields values
 * Parent Category is now applying to translations

#### 1.1

 * Filtered only taxonomies that are translated
 * Removed the requirement of filling slug and description
 * Changed text to textarea the description field

#### 1.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.5**
 *  Last updated **8 ⵉⵙⴳⴳⵯⴰⵙⵏ ago**
 *  Active installations **80+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.6.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.9.29**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang-category-creator/)
 * Tags
 * [bulk](https://tzm.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bulk/)[polylang](https://tzm.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/polylang/)
   [taxonomy](https://tzm.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/taxonomy/)[woocommerce](https://tzm.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://tzm.wordpress.org/plugins/polylang-category-creator/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ merk_cat ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/merksk8/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/polylang-category-creator/)