[wp-hackers] Customizing the view of custom taxonomies

[Scott Bressler]

Thanks for the responses. I know that I will need to create my own metabox
to display the terms that appear in a post on the post page. However, I also
need to customized way of editing the terms available in the taxonomy
itself. As I mentioned before, I need to only show a drop-down of choices
for the "type" of the term which I will then place (behind the scenes) into
the description field for the term. I also don't need to prompt for a slug.
And there are other customizations I will probably do, as well.

So what I'm asking is if it's possible to edit and customize the UI for a
custom taxonomy or should I be avoiding taxonomies altogether for this
plugin?

Thanks,
Scott

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Joel Fisher <joelfisher at gmail.com> wrote:

> Magic Fields is a good one to look into.
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> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:11 PM, scribu <scribu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Scott Bressler <sbressler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> How much can the view for adding and editing custom taxonomies be
> >> customized? I want to customize the display to show a dropdown of
> datetime,
> >> plaintext, location, or WP user, and serialize this information into the
> >> description field for the term. Can this be done with the custom
> taxonomy
> >> API and ability to customize its UI, or do I need to bake my own UI
> >> entirely
> >> from scratch?
> >>
> >
> > You will have to make a new metabox for your custom taxonomy.
> >
> > There are currently several great plugins that allow you to customize the
> UI
> > for custom fields.
> >
> > A long term solution would be to take one of those plugins and adapt it
> to
> > work with custom taxonomies instead.
> >
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