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WP Chosen

by John James Jacoby

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Description

WP Chosen implements the Chosen jQuery Plugin for WordPress.

Chosen makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly.

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  • Download and install using the built in WordPress plugin installer.
  • Activate in the “Plugins” area of your admin by clicking the “Activate” link.
  • No further setup or configuration is necessary.
  1. Filters

    Filters

  2. Time Zones

    Time Zones

What color schemes does this support?

WordPress

  • Default/Fresh
  • Light
  • Modern
  • Blue
  • Coffee
  • Ectoplasm
  • Midnight
  • Ocean
  • Sunrise

bbPress

  • Evergreen
  • Mint

Extras

  • 80’s Kid
  • Adderley
  • Aubergine
  • High Contrast Blue
  • Cruise
  • Flat
  • Kirk
  • Lawn
  • Primary
  • Seashore
  • Vinyard

American

  • From Many One
  • NASA 1976
  • NASA
  • Old Glory
  • Open Highway
  • Shenandoah

What elements does this target?

/* Options */
var chosen_options = {
disable_search_threshold: 13,
search_contains: true
};

/* Targets */
var chosen_selects = ' select:not(#metakeyselect, [name^=acf_], [name^=edd], [name^=_edd], [name^=sc], [name=wc_order_action], [class*=chosen], [class*=select2], [class*=wc-enhanced-select], [class*=wc-product-search], [class*=wc-enhanced-select-nostd], [class*=wc-customer-search], [class*=wc-category-search], [class=learndash-binary-selector-items], [class=sendgrid-settings-select])',
    chosen_targets =
    '.wp-pretty-filters'         + chosen_selects
    + ', .wp-filter'             + chosen_selects
    + ', .media-toolbar'         + chosen_selects
    + ', .postbox .inside'       + chosen_selects
    + ', .tablenav'              + chosen_selects
    + ', .form-table'            + chosen_selects
    + ', .form-wrap'             + chosen_selects
    + ', .customize-pane-parent' + chosen_selects;

Where can I get support?

  • Community: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-chosen
  • Development: https://github.com/stuttter/wp-chosen/discussions

Not working with Front-End

By 2006nic on February 16, 2022

Don't waste your time.

Very nice

By Anonymous User (anonymized_16298256) on March 31, 2021

Simple but really effective.

simple

By faospark on February 14, 2017

simple but really effective

Whohooo!!

By Postmatic (vernal) on September 3, 2016

Fantastic, simple, and perfectly executed implementation of Chosen. So obvious.

YES.

By Zack Katz (katzwebdesign) on September 3, 2016

I choo choo choose you! Great plugin, sorely needed. Best five lines of Javascript in a plugin.

Simple and zero setup required

By NSquared (croixhaug) on September 3, 2016

This should be in core 🙂

6.2.0 – 2025/12/10

  • Update Chosen library
  • Fix some errors from Plugin Check

6.1.2 – 2021/05/29

  • Update author info
  • Add sponsor link

6.1.1 – 2021/03/10

  • Tweak third-party plugin compatibility

6.1.0 – 2021/03/09

  • Add support for 6 extra color schemes

6.0.0 – 2021/03/09

  • Add support for 11 extra color schemes
  • Tweak WordPress 5.7 support
  • Avoid conflicts with WooCommerce
  • Avoid conflicts with SendGrid
  • Avoid conflicts with LearnDash
  • Avoid conflicts with Advanced Custom Fields

5.2.0 – 2021/03/02

  • WordPress 5.7 support
  • Avoid conflicts with custom fields
  • Avoid conflicts with WooCommerce/selectWoo
  • Avoid conflicts with other third party plugins

5.0.1 – 2020/07/27

  • Tweak WordPress 5.5 support

5.0.0 – 2020/07/23

  • WordPress 5.5 Support
  • Upgrade Chosen to 2.0.0 fork

3.2.0 – 2019/10/15

  • WordPress 5.3 Support

3.1.0 – 2017/06/22

  • Avoid conflicts with Easy Digital Downloads
  • Avoid conflicts with Stream
  • Avoid conflicts with Select2

3.0.0 – 2017/05/09

  • Update Chosen to 1.7.0
  • Handle several special cases for known wp-admin quirks
  • Add target for .postbox .inside select
  • Remove duplicate target for #posts-filter select

2.1.0 – 2016/11/19

  • Target more actions
  • Target wp-filters
  • Add WP Pretty Filters support

2.0.0 – 2016/10/29

  • Target bulk-actions
  • Improve efficiency of element targeting

1.1.0 – 2016/09/10

  • Remove “Open Sans” font styling rules for WordPress 4.6 support

1.0.0 – 2016/09/08

  • First pass outline styling support for improved accessibility

0.7.0 – 2016/04/20

  • Target form-wrap select elements, for taxonomies and such

0.6.0 – 2016/04/06

  • Provide filter to override Chosen enqueue handle

0.5.0 – 2016/04/06

  • Improved compatibility with third party plugins and themes

0.4.0 – 2016/02/23

  • Fix options-reading.php front page incompatibility

0.3.2 – 2016/02/23

  • Override retina sprite support

0.3.1 – 2016/02/23

  • Simplify dependency tree

0.3.0 – 2016/02/23

  • Bump Chosen to 1.5.1
  • Rename enqueue ID to ‘jquery-chosen’

0.2.1 – 2016/02/05

  • Only search when there are more than 10 items

0.2.0 – 2016/01/04

  • Add multiple support

0.1.4 – 2015/11/15

  • Add customizer support

0.1.3 – 2015/10/28

  • Version JS
  • Add support for media

0.1.2 – 2015/10/22

  • Update styling
  • Target media library

0.1.1 – 2015/10/06

  • Fix drop-down search input styling

0.1.0 – 2015/10/01

  • Initial release
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