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Categories Metabox Enhanced

by Yoren Chang

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Description

Thanks to Taxonomy_Single_Term, a library created by WebDevStudios, it made my work much easier on creating this plugin.

With Categories Metabox Enhanced, you can:

  • Change the built-in Categories metabox/panel to a single term UI, which means replacing the checkboxes with radio buttons or a select drop-down.
  • Apply the single term UI to other hierarchical taxonomies in the plugin’s Settings page.
  • Customized the single term UI by setting these options:
    • Priority and position of the metabox placement.
    • Title of the metabox.
    • If child-terms should be indenting.
    • If adding of new terms from the metabox is enable.
  1. Upload the category-metabox-enhanced directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  1. The checkboxes in Categories metabox are replaced with radio buttons

    The checkboxes in Categories metabox are replaced with radio buttons

  2. The checkboxes in Categories metabox are replaced with a select drop-down

    The checkboxes in Categories metabox are replaced with a select drop-down

  3. A settings page for this plugin

    A settings page for this plugin

Perfect!

By niel (nielfernandez) on September 4, 2020

This plugin is perfect it saves me to create a CMS because of enforcing select only one category every post! . . Thanks, Author :))

Almost perfect even in Gutenberg

By leymannx on February 14, 2019

Clever solution IMHO that this plugin simply replaces the default meta boxes with its own. Unfortunately in WP 5 Gutenberg the default category / taxonomy meta boxes still are visible.

Perfect plugin

By tatof on May 11, 2018

This plugin is easy to use and just works 🙂 Replace checkboxes for radios! FTW

Works on WordPress 4.9.4

By Andrew (andrewjohnstrong) on March 21, 2018

Works on WordPress 4.9.4

Works great to make categories a dropdown list

By theuiguy on January 15, 2018

I've used this plugin on multiple sites for years. It works great and keeps editors from placing things in multiple categories. Although I understand that not everyone uses categories the same way, it feel like WordPress should have a setting that forces categories to be one per post. In my use, tags are better suited when you have a variety of ways you want to classify a post. It would be nice to be able to specify a default category, though.

Perfect solution

By hsz_36 on July 29, 2017

This should be in core! Thanks for your work!

Great replacement of code snap

By Domi2015 on September 3, 2016

Great replacement of code snap. Plugin is better.

Would be better if the plugin also change quick edit / bulk edit category check-box so that its sync with edit's meta. Currently the edit metabox might set to unique category (radio button/pick list), while the quick edit/bulk edit still has multiple category option (check boxes).

Brilliant Plugin

By sk15 on September 3, 2016

Works great, thank you.

Perfect - just what is needed

By cvladan on September 3, 2016

This plugin is simply perfect - just what is needed. Works flawlessly with all kind of custom post types and their taxonomies. I really like it. Nicely coded and doesn't slow down site in any way.

Great plugin!

By artmaug on September 3, 2016

Works very fine, thanks a lot!

0.7.1

  • Update the Taxonomy_Single_Term library and some cosmetic fixes.

0.7.0

  • Support the single term UI in Gutenberg sidebar Categories/Taxonomies panels.

0.6.1

  • Remove git submodule from this plugin.

0.6.0

  • Indent the child-terms in select options.
  • Remove unused CSS and JS files.

0.5.0

  • The first version.
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