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1. minnellium
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Am | the only person who thinks this is a bug? If you select one or two subcategories or sub-subcategories whilst editing a post, it's clear from the category hierarchy that you can see which subcategories you've selected.

   However, when going in to re-edit or update a post, all the categories or subcategories you have selected have been moved in the sidebar to the top of the 'categories'

   e.g.

   Categories

   Cheese
   -- French
   -- German
   -- Greek
   -- English
   Meat
   -- French
   -- German
   -- Greek
   -- English

   Then if the post is 'in' the categories

   • Cheese > French
     AND
   • Meat > French

   The category 'sidebar' in the post editor shows the VERY confusing
   
   French
   French
   Cheese
   -- German
   -- Greek
   -- English
   Meat
   -- German
   -- Greek
   -- English

   If You have the following sort of subcategory structure, it's a NIGHTMARE but I can't see a way round this. AMazed that I can't find anything on this annoyance in the Codex or support... but happy for you to prove me wrong...

2. borantula
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   i'm dealing with the same problem
   i found the solution but its in admin files and i couldn't manage to hook it

   there's a function called wp_terms_checklist
   See here
   And here

   in $defaults there's an option called checked_ontop and its true. try and make it false and you'll see the problem is solved(i tried it with a custom taxonomy but it should work on normal categories as well).

   but my problem is how to hook it from my functions.php to make checked_ontop false?? because i dont want to update this everytime i upgrade the core

3. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-checklist-tree/ should do it.

4. borantula
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   :) great!!! thanks for the quick reply
   this does the trick but this should be easier. he copied and rewrite entire meta box.
   i was looking for a way to hook on wp_terms_checklist function

5. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Yeah, the other fix I found was a very complicated functions hack. Sometimes the plugin is easier ;)

6. minnellium
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks so much people - you're all great. Like I said in the original post, I have no idea why this isn't a core release rather than a plugin... who'd want it any other way?!

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