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1. 10sexyapples
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Me again ... sorry. I see that the lost hierarchy issue has been around for over 3 years now. It should would be nice if that could just be put back to the way it used to be. Talk about a usability issue. The site I'm working on now has California Educational Standards as a custom taxonomy.
   They go something like this ... on small branch of the tree:
   California Educational Standards
   ---Third Grade Standards
   ----English Language Arts
   -----Reading and Speaking
   -------1.0

   Can you imagine what this looks like with all of the 1.0 level selections out of there hierarchy... geesh.

   Anyway, wondering if you might be so kind as to instruct me in the ways of applying your wonderful "feature" fix to the custom hierarchical taxonomies of custom post types? Sure would be appreciated- Next up - asking Mark to do the same with the category list expander ... you know what would be nice? The ability to have a perfectly hierarchical list, like your plugin, coupled with the ability to collapse and expand branches of the tree by default and manually. On new post, it is fully expanded by default and has no scrolling, like Mark's plugin, then when opened for edit, only branches that have previously selected items are expanded by default. Could even have an options selection like "use the rich text editor" to set default preferences for all open or all closed etc. ... Just a thought~

2. scribu
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I will update this plugin for WP 3.0 when I have the chance.

   you know what would be nice? The ability to have a perfectly hierarchical list, like your plugin, coupled with the ability to collapse and expand branches of the tree by default and manually. On new post, it is fully expanded by default and has no scrolling, like Mark's plugin, then when opened for edit, only branches that have previously selected items are expanded by default. Could even have an options selection like "use the rich text editor" to set default preferences for all open or all closed etc.

   Yeah, that would be nice.

3. 10sexyapples
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks so much scribu, I'll be eagerly looking forward to that~

4. scribu
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Check out the development version (1.1-beta).

5. 10sexyapples
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Excellent Scribu. Works perfectly, but, I had to change the meta_box priority to low as on high it was positioning itself above the publish meta_box. This was so helpful ;-)

6. 10sexyapples
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Two quick questions:

   1. Do you know if there are any additional options outside of low/high for ordering meta_boxes? I really need to get that one giant taxonomy to the bottom.

   2. In order to make the hierarchical taxonomies (in the $taxonomy-divs meta_boxes created with your code) collapsible so that my client doesn't have to scroll through 8 or 9 hundred terms in that giant taxonomy mentioned above ( Mark's category expander won't work as there are just too many terms to have it all expanded ), do you happen to know of any solutions that would be faster/easier than having to start from scratch writing that function into this one?

7. scribu
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   No on both questions. Sorry.

   If you do manage to make the collapsible categories working, I would be interested in including it in the plugin (with proper credit to you, of course).

8. 10sexyapples
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   1. Okay, I'm going to have to resort to an alphabetic override ;-) I'm pretty sure that's how it's ordering them.

   2. Yes, I think this must be done, so, will let you know. I had tried some javascript earlier, but, it was over-riding the checkbox and didn't function right. I love all the new functions etc. that are available to me now, but, man, it sure is making for a lot more work right now with developing - so much has to be re-written to implement all the new toys ... ;-)

9. 10sexyapples
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   There is an old plugin by Alex King called Category Overload that handled this exact thing for categories. It is outdated now, as it uses the old deprecated post2cat etc.. I've sent a message to ask if it would be updated, but, really don't think that will happen, so, I may use that as a foundation to build on, or just start over. Of course, whatever I pull together, I'll let you know.

   And oh yeah, I need to put some call into the drill down widget that ( in literal terms ) says "if the current post has a custom post type query var "lesson" and no terms are selected redirect to /lessons instead of index.php. I have rewrite and redirect rules in place to send custom post type query variables that don't contain "name" ( single posts ) to a template that has been set up as an archive. This archive template is where all the drill downs start, and where I want to return to if multitax isn't called.

   Did I already ask this? I'm sorry if I'm repeating myself. Any clues would be helpful if you have a minute. If not, I'll keep plugging away ;-)

10. 10sexyapples
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Ah man. Sorry. I just realized I'm in the wrong thread on that last comment. I think my head is somewhere other than on top of my shoulders lately.

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