Title: Compact Taxonomy Checkboxes
Author: Ben Huson
Published: <strong>February 9, 2012</strong>
Last modified: June 7, 2013

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Compact Taxonomy Checkboxes

 By [Ben Huson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/husobj/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/compact-taxonomy-checkboxes.1.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/compact-taxonomy-checkboxes/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/compact-taxonomy-checkboxes/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/compact-taxonomy-checkboxes/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/compact-taxonomy-checkboxes/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/compact-taxonomy-checkboxes/)

## Description

> **This plugin in only required for versions prior to WordPress 3.5**
>  I am no 
> longer continuing to provide support for this plugin. If anyone would like to 
> take over commit access please contact me via the details in my profile.

This plugin collapses and reduces the height of hierarchical category and taxonomy
panels in the WordPress admin.

It always bugged me that when editing a post the categories panel took up so much
height if you only had a few categories. This was also the same for custom hierarchical
taxonomies.

This plugin just adds a couple of styles to your admin to override this and collapse
that space.

I created an initial patch for this which, with contributions from other WordPress
developers, was included in WordPress 3.5. You can [see the patch here…](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15925)

## Screenshots

[⌊Remove the unnecessary white space - much better.⌉⌊Remove the unnecessary white
space - much better.⌉[

Remove the unnecessary white space – much better.

## Installation

To install and configure this plugin…

 1. Upload or install the plugin through your WordPress admin.
 2. Activate the plugin via the ‘Plugins’ admin menu.
 3. No configuration required, it just works.

## FAQ

#### Where can I report bugs and issues?

Please log issues and bugs on the plugin’s [GitHub page](https://github.com/benhuson/compact-taxonomy-checkboxes/issues).
You can also submit suggested enhancements if you like.

#### How can I contribute?

If you can, please [fork the code](https://github.com/benhuson/compact-taxonomy-checkboxes)
and submit a pull request via GitHub. If you’re not comfortable using Git, then 
please just submit it to the issues link above.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Compact Taxonomy Checkboxes” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Ben Huson ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/husobj/)

[Translate “Compact Taxonomy Checkboxes” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/compact-taxonomy-checkboxes)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/compact-taxonomy-checkboxes/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/compact-taxonomy-checkboxes/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/compact-taxonomy-checkboxes/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/compact-taxonomy-checkboxes/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1

 * Deactivate if running WordPress 3.5+

#### 1.0

 * First Release. If you spot any bugs or issues please [log them here](https://github.com/benhuson/compact-taxonomy-checkboxes/issues).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **13 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.4.2**
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[categories](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/categories/)
   [category](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category/)[Checkboxes](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/checkboxes/)
   [edit](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/edit/)[taxonomies](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/taxonomies/)
   [taxonomy](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/taxonomy/)[ui](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ui/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/compact-taxonomy-checkboxes/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Ben Huson ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/husobj/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/compact-taxonomy-checkboxes/)

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