Custom Post type admin UI with custom taxonomies

  • dskbrk

    (@dskbrk)


    13 years, 6 months ago

    hello folks,

    I registered a custom post type with two related custom taxonomies BUT in the Admin UI it only shows the Title, Author, Comments and Date columns. It’s quite limited.

    There is a way to show up my custom taxonomies as columns and take advantage of the filter functions as the built-in Post panel do with categories and tags?

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  • Rev. Voodoo

    (@rvoodoo)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Well, maybe you can use this to get started….. I use this for my custom post type (ve_products) and to display my custom taxonomy (product_category) 

    // ADDS EXTRA INFO TO ADMIN MENU FOR PRODUCT POST TYPE
add_filter("manage_edit-ve_products_columns", "voodoo_prod_edit_columns");
add_action("manage_posts_custom_column", "voodoo_prod_custom_columns");

function voodoo_prod_edit_columns( $columns ) {

	// Add the extra column for product categories instead of rebuilding the whole array
	$columns['prod_cat'] = "Product Category";

	return $columns;
}

function voodoo_prod_custom_columns( $column ) {
	global $post;
	switch( $column ) {
		case "description":
			the_excerpt();
		break;
		case "prod_cat":
			echo get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'product_category', '', ', ', '' );
		break;
	}
}
    Thread Starter dskbrk

    (@dskbrk)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    hey Rev. Voodoo,

    this is a great start! your snippet works very well.

    Now I’m going to look if there are also any hooks for the filter funcionalities (ex: show only posts with that term…).

    Thank you so much.

    Rev. Voodoo

    (@rvoodoo)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Glad I could at least get you started!!

    Thread Starter dskbrk

    (@dskbrk)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    well, I found that adding the custom taxonomy in the edit panel url (&customtax=term) WordPress actually filter the results, so for adding filter functionalities, in the snippet above for example, is as simple as that:

    function voodoo_prod_custom_columns( $column ) {
	global $post;
	switch( $column ) {
		case "customtaxonomy":
			$terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID, 'customtaxonomy');
			if ($terms) {
				foreach ($terms as $term => $myterm) {
					echo '<a href="'.get_bloginfo('url').'/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=customtype&customtaxonomy='.$myterm->slug.'">'.$myterm->slug.'</a>';
				}
			}
		break;
                //etc...
	}
}

    now links filter posts by the custom taxonomy term 🙂

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