studio-racketHi all,
I have been building a real estate type site which will be populated and maintained by multiple authors... hence I have tried to make the admin are as simple and logical as possible. All of the sites content is being entered as 'posts' with categories being used as a structural devices. So, getting to my point... I hacked the edit-form-advanced.php and duplicated the <?php wp_category_checklist(0,3) ?> to create an effect similar to this
While this works fine initially, except... when you go back and edit a published post, wordpress does not show you which categories have been selected - the categories are all selected fine... you just cant see what they are... does that make sense? Here is the full code from the admin area:
function post_categories_meta_box($post) {
?>
<div id="cat-type">
<div id="category-adder" class="wp-hidden-children">
<h4>Choose One Space Type Only.</h4>
</div>
<ul id="category-tabs">
<li class="ui-tabs-selected"><a href="#categories-all" tabindex="3"><?php _e( 'Space Type' ); ?></a></li>
</ul>
<div id="categories-all" class="ui-tabs-panel">
<ul id="categorychecklist" class="list:category categorychecklist form-no-clear">
<?php wp_category_checklist(0,3) ?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div id="cat-usage">
<ul id="category-tabs">
<li class="ui-tabs-selected"><a href="#categories-all" tabindex="3"><?php _e( 'Space Usage' ); ?></a></li>
</ul>
<div id="categories-all" class="ui-tabs-panel">
<ul id="categorychecklist" class="list:category categorychecklist form-no-clear">
<?php wp_category_checklist(0,8) ?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<ul id="category-tabs">
<li class="ui-tabs-selected"><a href="#categories-all" tabindex="3"><?php _e( 'Space Suburb' ); ?></a></li>
</ul>
<div id="cat-suburb" class="ui-tabs-panel">
<ul id="categorychecklist" class="list:category categorychecklist form-no-clear">
<?php wp_category_checklist(0,17) ?>
</ul>
</div>My question is... what have I screwed up in duplicated the category selectors?
And secondly... has anyone else ever attempted something similar to this... I fully admit my way is quick and dirty... Does anyone know of a more sophisticated way of doing this?
Cheers
apam
