Ben Huson

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<p><strong>This plugin in only required for versions prior to WordPress 3.5</strong><br />
  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.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>This plugin collapses and reduces the height of hierarchical category and taxonomy panels in the WordPress admin.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>This plugin just adds a couple of styles to your admin to override this and collapse that space.</p>
<p>I created an initial patch for this which, with contributions from other WordPress developers, was included in WordPress 3.5. You can <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15925" rel="nofollow ugc">see the patch here…</a></p>


Compact Taxonomy Checkboxes

Collapse and reduce the height of hierarchical category and taxonomy panels in the WordPress admin (not needed for WordPress 3.5+).

runthings.dev

<p>This plugin lets you swap the auto-complete / search style interface for a checkbox list, without changing any underlying data.</p>
<p>It allows you to pick from a list of the existing tags, so that admin users do not need to remember each tag.</p>
<p>It doesn’t allow new tags to be created on the fly, which keeps the tags list under control, although you can optionally enable an add / edit link.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Replace the tags ui with a checkbox list</li>
<li>No alteration to front end functionality, or the underlying data / terms</li>
<li>Option to control the height of the taxonomy metabox, between auto, full height, and custom (px)</li>
<li>Show a link to the taxonomy edit screen via an “+ Add / Edit {taxononomy}” link</li>
<li>Customization via filters</li>
</ul>
<h3>Filters</h3>
<h3>runthings_ttc_selected_taxonomies</h3>
<p>This filter allows developers to modify the array of taxonomies selected for the custom checkbox interface.</p>
<p>For detailed documentation and examples, see the <a href="https://github.com/runthings-dev/runthings-taxonomy-tags-to-checkboxes#filters" rel="nofollow ugc">full documentation on GitHub</a>.</p>
<h4>Parameters:</h4>
<ol>
<li><strong><code>$selected_taxonomies</code></strong> (<code>array</code>): An array of taxonomy slugs. Unset an entry to disable the checkbox list override.</li>
</ol>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.</p>
<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, see <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html</a>.</p>
<p>Icon – Check Box List by unlimicon from Noun Project, https://thenounproject.com/browse/icons/term/check-box-list/ (CC BY 3.0)</p>


Taxonomy Tags to Checkboxes


What a great plugin - searched for ages to find this, but does exactly what it needs to do. You do need to go into the settings and show the system tags to enable it (I think it would be better if I had to turn that off rather than on as that's what I wanted the plugin for).



Great example of an annoying WP UI problem solved by a great plugin.


Works perfectly!

Convert taxonomy tags to checkboxes in the WordPress admin area.

Compact Taxonomy Checkboxes vs Taxonomy Tags to Checkboxes