Title: User errors with post categories
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# User errors with post categories

 *  [patrick_here](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patrick_here/)
 * (@patrick_here)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-errors-with-post-categories/)
 * **Question in brief:**
    I’m looking for a way to eliminate problems caused by
   users checking the wrong category checkboxes (controlling posts that appear on
   the front/home page as “Featured” or “Headline” posts) in the new/edit post interface.
 * **The details:**
    I have some sites using the “Arthemia Free” theme. For the 
   front page, this theme uses posts categorized as “Featured” and “Headline” posts
   to create a nice display. The sites are non-profit sites administered often by
   non-technical users. They sometimes check or uncheck the “Featured” or “Headline”
   categories not realizing that this will completely mess up the appearance of 
   the front page.
 * So I’d like to come up with a solution to this problem …either by manipulating
   the categories that are offered for them to check for each new post (or edited
   post) or perhaps by using a custom taxonomy to specify this “Featured” or “Headline”
   post (Although I haven’t ever worked with custom taxonomies).
 * I can see that the code in:
    include/template.php:wp_terms_checklist() and the
   code calling it in: include/meta-boxes.php …is not simple code and would not 
   be very easy to alter so I’m looking for advice from someone who has a high-level
   view of wordpress code and might be able to suggest a better approach.
 * -Patrick

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