[wp-hackers] Custom taxonomies and admin menus

Mike Schinkel mikeschinkel at newclarity.net
Sat Jul 31 23:31:13 UTC 2010


> I managed to get them to show up by both changing them to the init() hook, but also by changing their priority from 0 to 10, and invoking this hook immediately after registering the post type.

Actually, I change the priority too, forgot to mention that.  

Yeah, always accept the default or use "10" unless you've got a specific reason to have a different priority.

-Mike

On Jul 31, 2010, at 7:28 PM, Joshua Sibelman wrote:

> Thanks for the help Mike.
> 
> I managed to get them to show up by both changing them to the init() hook, but also by changing their priority from 0 to 10, and invoking this hook immediately after registering the post type.
> 
> It's unclear to me *why* that solved the problem, but it did. I appreciate the assistance.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jul 31, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote:
> 
>> Is your register_post('listing',...) also in an 'init' hook vs. an 'admin_init' hook?
>> 
>> When I took your code it didn't show up in the menu until I changed it to 'init'.  I had to add a register_post() for 'listing', of course.  Here's what it looks like (for testing purposes, of course.) Is yours have public and show_ui set to true?:
>> 
>> register_post_type('listing',array(
>>   'label' => 'Listings',
>>   'public' => true,
>>   'publicly_queryable' => true,
>>   'show_ui' => true,
>>   'query_var' => true,
>>   'rewrite' => true,
>>   'capability_type' => 'post',
>>   'hierarchical' => false,
>>   'supports' => array('title')
>> ));
>> 
>> This is what the admin screen  looks like with your code in an init hook in a (mostly) clean copy of WordPress 3.0.1:
>> 
>> http://mikeschinkel.com/websnaps/skitched-20100731-190500.png
>> 
>> -Mike
>> 
>> On Jul 31, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Joshua Sibelman wrote:
>> 
>>> I have. It makes no difference.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jul 31, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Joshua :
>>>> 
>>>> Try this instead:
>>>> 
>>>> add_action('init', array($this, 'createListingTaxonomies'), 0);
>>>> 
>>>> -Mike
>>>> 
>>>> On Jul 31, 2010, at 6:47 PM, Joshua Sibelman wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> http://pastebin.com/App1td55
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for checking it out.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jul 31, 2010, at 3:44 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Can you post your register_taxonomy() code?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jul 31, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Joshua Sibelman wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'm registering the taxonomies on init, like so:
>>>>>>> add_action('admin_init', array($this, 'createListingTaxonomies'), 0);
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Jul 31, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> In the plugin are you doing it in the global area of the .PHP file on in an init hook?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> -Mike
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Jul 31, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Joshua Sibelman wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I hope this isn't an obvious question, but I wasn't able to find anything on this in the Codex.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I created a plugin for a client that registers a new post type with two attendant hierarchical taxonomies. When the taxonomies are registered via the plugin, I do not see line items in the admin menu to access them for editing. If I move the taxonomy registration out of the plugin and into the theme's functions.php file, then the menu items appear.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Can anyone explain this behavior? Is there something specific I need to do when registering taxonomies via plugin vs. the functions.php file to get the menus to appear?
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Thanks for any help you can give me.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Josh
>>>>>> 
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