[Plugin: CategoryTinymce] Taxonomies show original description field

Hi Dankicity

I’ll try and answer your questions:

1. I’m assuming you mean the description column is the description box below the parent category tag when you add a new category rather than in the list of categories.

I did initially hide this box and replace it with the new tinymce enable box but i had to update the plugin because when I hide the box you lost the ability to set parent categories. It appears that they are very closely connected.

Having the ability to set parent categories is more important than hiding the description box. You can still fill in the box and when you go into the edit category page then the new tinymce box will be prepopulated ready for formatting.

2. The plugin does not support custom categories in relation to filtering out the default box. I use jquery on named pages to hide the box and I’ll never be able to guess everyone’s custom taxonomy types ??
I will look at trying to make it dynamic at some stage in the future in the mean time you can add some code to your functions file to run your own filters for your own custom post types. The instructions below is cut and pasted from a comment on the plugin home page at: https://ypraise.com/2012/01/wordpress-plugin-categorytinymce/

Either add to your own themes functions file (best to prevent it being over written by any updates I do to the plugin) or add to the categorytinymce file (After line 122) the following:

function hide_XXXX_description() {
global $current_screen;
if ( $current_screen->id == 'edit-XXXX' ) {
?>

jQuery(function($) {
$('select#parent').closest('tr.form-field').hide(); $('textarea#description, textarea#tag-description').closest('tr.form-field').hide();
});
<?php
}
}

The XXXX will depend on your taxonomy name so using countries as a taxonomy type you would probable name your filter:

function hide_countries_description()

your current screen id can be found by going to the edit page for your custom category type and looking in the url. You will see a variable called taxonomy=XXXX

This is what you want to use as the edit id in the

if ( $current_screen->id == ‘edit-XXXX’ )

so it could look something like;

if ( $current_screen->id == ‘edit-post_country’ )

or

if ( $current_screen->id == ‘edit-country’ )

I’ve not been able to replicate the issue with data-mce-bogus=”1″ but I’ll try and play around with it a bit over the weekend and try and find out whats causing it. May be it’s a theme issue?

Regarding your suggestion. I’ll take a look when I get the chance to put together an options page. This plugin was really put together in a hurry when wp went to 3.3 because I needed something simple and fast to replace other plugins. I can not offer any time line on it I’m afraid as I’m pretty chockablock with work and in the progress of emigrating so time is not really available to sit down and work on a freebie.

Thanks for the message and I hope I’ve answered you questions.

Kevin

Thanks for the reply. And I neglected to say thanks in the first place for the plugin ~ as the pre 3.3 ones don’t work anymore.

1. Understood.
2. That will work. But to follow up on the guessing the types and for the options page, a bit of code I used in an ordering plugin.

$allowed_post_types  = get_option( 'ptorder_post_types' );
$post_types          = get_post_types();

$banned_post_types = 'page,revision,attachment,nav_menu_item';
$usable_post_types = array();

if ( !isset($allowed_post_types) || empty($allowed_post_types) || $allowed_post_types == 'all' )
	$allowed_post_types = implode(',', $post_types);

foreach( $post_types as $post_type_name ) {
	if ( strpos($banned_post_types, $post_type_name) !== false ) // would probably want to replace strpos as it can find similar post types
		continue;

	$usable_post_types[$post_type_name] = $post_type_name;
}

Results in an array with all ‘valid’ post types with taxonomy capability.

Combine that with something like the link below would collect the taxonomies for all post types to be used in the filter names.

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/20574/how-to-get-all-taxonomies-of-a-post-type

Hi

thanks for those suggestions. I’ll take a look in the next couple of weeks or so and see if I can incorporate them into the plugin.

thanks
Kevin

How I fixed the taxonomy issue:

if ( $current_screen->id == 'edit-'.$current_screen->taxonomy ) {

Also I removed the

<table class="form-table">
and
</table>

for it to work…

So we got the edit_tag_form_fields working, not the edit_category_form_fields

Hi jmslbam

thanks for that bit of code.

I’ll do an update of the plugin over the weekend.

thanks
Kevin

Nice to hear!

My collegae is tweaking / optimizing the plugin code.
I shall post a GI(S)T of the code by the end of the day.

Do you got this plugin also somewhere on GIT?

Hi Kevin,

How are you. Currently it’s kinda late here so I will keep it short.
I started coding with your plugin and needed to fix it so it worked on custom taxonomies.
Somehow I ended up with this:

https://github.com/jmslbam/Taxonomy-TinyMCE/

A more generic solution. I hope we can somehow combine our Powers to take this to the next level. ??

You may ask, why on GitHub? Well I have no experience with the WordPress SVN / repo.

Maybe we can keep in touch by e-mail.

Yours sincerly,

Jaime Martinez

P.S. Do you have a github account?

Hi Jaime

If you want to build on the functions and take the plugin to the next level then why not launch your own plugin as a fork of this one?

I prefer to keep this one pretty basic as it allows developers to customise it for their own use. Some of the more complex plugins are not that easy to hack ??

I have very little time to commit to looking expanding this plugin. I’ll update as neccessary to keep it working but if you want to add on extra functions then you’ll need to go it alone.

Thanks
Kevin