The Difference Between Hierarchical and Non-Hierarchical Taxonomies?

The simple answer is that terms in hierarchical taxonomies can have child terms. But what else? ‘hierarchical’=>false When you specify a ‘hierarchical’=>false you get the following type of metabox which is the metabox format WordPress also uses for Post Tags: ‘hierarchical’=>true However when you specify ‘hierarchical’=>true you get the following type of metabox which is … Read more

How to show a hierarchical terms list?

Use wp_list_categories with the ‘taxonomy’ => ‘taxonomy’ argument, it’s built for creating hierarchical category lists but will also support using a custom taxonomy.. Codex Example: Display terms in a custom taxonomy If the list comes back looking flat, it’s possible you just need a little CSS to add padding to the lists, so you can … Read more