Front End Form Category field not working

• ignitos

• August 5, 2014 at 3:26 am

i have created a front end form to create a new post, and its working fine except one problem.

i want to assign category to this post from front end and used a Taxonomy field type, but somehow their is some conflict with genesis theme, so i decided to use simple dropdown field and save the value to Post_category, but the value is not saved in to DB. here is the code part.

    $post = array(
        'post_status'  => 'draft' ,
        'post_title'  => $_POST['fields']['field_53b5105fc69e0'],  
		'post_content' => $_POST['fields']['field_53b510fbc69e2'], 
		'post_thumbnail'  => $_POST['fields']['field_53b51083c69e1'],
		'post_category'  => $_POST['fields']['field_53de0c59b3833'],
		
        'post_type'  => 'post' ,
    );  
 
// insert the post
    $post_id = wp_insert_post( $post );