I’m creating a WordPress plugin, that in turn creates a custom post type for MMA fighters. I want to organise fighters by weight class, so though this would be a good use of a custom taxonomy.
I’ve created a weight class taxonomy like this:
However, this doesn’t seem to yield quite what I want. When I go to add/edit a fighter post, there’s a weight class panel that displays like the following:
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What I’d like instead is a weight class panel like that, but with options (i.e. Lightweight, Middleweight, Heavyweight etc) predefined by my plugin and displayed as a drop-down list, rather than an open input as above where the user can add any ol’ option.
Is it possible to create pre-defined options for a taxonomy like this?
<h1>Update</h1>
So, I found the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_term" rel="nofollow noreferrer">wp_insert_term()</a> function, programmatically added the weight classes, and changed
to
in the taxonomy definition. This gets me closer to what I want, as I now have this:
<img src=" " alt="enter image description here">
However, I’d rather they were radios instead of checkboxes (so users could only select one weight class), and that the “+ Add New Category” option wasn’t available, as I only want users to choose from the pre-defined options and not be able to create their own.
I’ve created a weight class taxonomy like this:
Code:
<?php
register_taxonomy('mma_weight_class', 'mma_fighter', array(
'hierarchical' => false,
'label' => __('Weight Class'),
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => true
));However, this doesn’t seem to yield quite what I want. When I go to add/edit a fighter post, there’s a weight class panel that displays like the following:
<img src=" " alt="enter image description here">
What I’d like instead is a weight class panel like that, but with options (i.e. Lightweight, Middleweight, Heavyweight etc) predefined by my plugin and displayed as a drop-down list, rather than an open input as above where the user can add any ol’ option.
Is it possible to create pre-defined options for a taxonomy like this?
<h1>Update</h1>
So, I found the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_term" rel="nofollow noreferrer">wp_insert_term()</a> function, programmatically added the weight classes, and changed
Code:
hierarchical
Code:
true<img src=" " alt="enter image description here">
However, I’d rather they were radios instead of checkboxes (so users could only select one weight class), and that the “+ Add New Category” option wasn’t available, as I only want users to choose from the pre-defined options and not be able to create their own.