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Categories Metabox Enhanced

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.

Screenshots

  • The checkboxes in Categories metabox are replaced with radio buttons
  • The checkboxes in Categories metabox are replaced with a select drop-down
  • A settings page for this plugin

Installation

  1. Upload the category-metabox-enhanced directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Reviews

Séptémber 4, 2020
This plugin is perfect it saves me to create a CMS because of enforcing select only one category every post! . . Thanks, Author :))
Pébruari 14, 2019 1 reply
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.
Méi 11, 2018
This plugin is easy to use and just works 🙂 Replace checkboxes for radios! FTW
Januari 15, 2018 1 reply
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.
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Contributors & Developers

“Categories Metabox Enhanced” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

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.