custom-taxonomy

Add default WordPress tag meta box to User Profile

This code works for me. It uses ‘locations’ custom taxonomy and ‘suggest’ javascript. You need to extend it to support multiple term selection. Add custom field to user-edit screen and store metadata when user/admin updates profile // for account owner add_action(‘show_user_profile’, ‘add_custom_user_profile_fields’); add_action(‘personal_options_update’, ‘save_custom_user_profile_fields’); // for admins add_action(‘edit_user_profile’, ‘add_custom_user_profile_fields’); add_action(‘edit_user_profile_update’, ‘save_custom_user_profile_fields’); function add_custom_user_profile_fields($user) { printf( … Read more

Adding Category/Tag/Taxonomy Support to Images/Media

Here’s how I recently added a custom taxonomy to the media library as a sortable column: // Add a new column add_filter(‘manage_media_columns’, ‘add_topic_column’); function add_topic_column($posts_columns) { $posts_columns[‘att_topic’] = _x(‘Topic’, ‘column name’); return $posts_columns; } // Register the column as sortable function topic_column_register_sortable( $columns ) { $columns[‘att_topic’] = ‘att_topic’; return $columns; } add_filter( ‘manage_upload_sortable_columns’, ‘topic_column_register_sortable’ ); … Read more

Can you add the visual editor to the description field for custom taxonomies?

Just wrote the function. It’ll display the tinymce editor in every custom taxonomy description right now. Surely you can edit to show it for only some specific taxonomy. /** * Display advanced TinyMCE editor in taxonomy page */ function wpse_7156_enqueue_category() { global $pagenow, $current_screen; if( $pagenow == ‘edit-tags.php’ ) { require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin/includes/post.php’); require_once(ABSPATH . … Read more

How to add images to taxonomies?

Starting from WordPress 4.4, you can use add_term_meta function to store metadata for a term. This is basically a key-value pair information which is stored in wp_termmeta table. Original Answer(Prior to WP 4.4) WordPress doesn’t have the option to add extra information to taxonomies. There isn’t any taxonomy_meta table. So, you have two options. Create … Read more

Count posts in custom taxonomy

Use an instance of WP_Query to query the database. http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query To query database for custom taxonomies use, $query = new WP_Query( array( ‘people’ => ‘bob’ ) ); For more details on available options see: Taxonomy Parameters http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Taxonomy_Parameters Retrieve published posts using ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’ Use found_posts to retrive the number of posts $count = $query->found_posts;

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