One thing you might want to add to your site till then would be an additional menu pick to edit the ‘topics’. To do this add the following code into your function.php.
Justin you are a doll!!!! I was just on the hunt for this very code snippet.. **lol**
Having it in the plugin itself helps if themes are swapped it won’t break anything.
I totally agree.. However for this site, even if I swapped themes, I am using the Genesis framework so I wouldn’t lose anything, but because I wanted to make it easy for me to implement this on the next site I use the Role Based Help Notes plugin on, I actually packaged this code up as a down and dirty “helper plugin” on my site so that it’s “portable”..
Here’s the whole thing:
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Role Based Help Notes - Add Taxonomy
Plugin URI: https://overthehillweb.com
Description: Add custom taxonomy to Role Based Help Notes plugin
Version: 1.0
Author: Over The Hill Web Consulting
Author URI: https://overthehillweb.com
*/
/**
* If this file is called directly, abort.
*/
if ( ! defined( 'WPINC' ) ) {
die;
}
/*Add custom taxonomy to Role Based Help Notes plugin*/
//hook into the init action and call create_book_taxonomies when it fires
add_action( 'init', 'create_topics_hierarchical_taxonomy', 0 );
//create a custom taxonomy name it topics for your posts
function create_topics_hierarchical_taxonomy() {
// Add new taxonomy, make it hierarchical like categories
//first do the translations part for GUI
$labels = array(
'name' => _x( 'Topics', 'taxonomy general name' ),
'singular_name' => _x( 'Topic', 'taxonomy singular name' ),
'search_items' => __( 'Search Topics' ),
'all_items' => __( 'All Topics' ),
'parent_item' => __( 'Parent Topic' ),
'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Topic:' ),
'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Topic' ),
'update_item' => __( 'Update Topic' ),
'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Topic' ),
'new_item_name' => __( 'New Topic Name' ),
'menu_name' => __( 'Topics' ),
);
// Now register the taxonomy
register_taxonomy('topics',array('h_administrator'), array(
'hierarchical' => true,
'labels' => $labels,
'show_ui' => true,
'show_admin_column' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'topic' ),
));
}
function restrict_h_administrator_by_topics() {
global $typenow;
$post_type = 'h_administrator'; // change HERE
$taxonomy = 'topics'; // change HERE
if ($typenow == $post_type) {
$selected = isset($_GET[$taxonomy]) ? $_GET[$taxonomy] : '';
$info_taxonomy = get_taxonomy($taxonomy);
wp_dropdown_categories(array(
'show_option_all' => __("Show All {$info_taxonomy->label}"),
'taxonomy' => $taxonomy,
'name' => $taxonomy,
'orderby' => 'name',
'selected' => $selected,
'show_count' => true,
'hide_empty' => true,
));
};
}
add_action('restrict_manage_posts', 'restrict_h_administrator_by_topics');
function convert_id_to_term_in_query($query) {
global $pagenow;
$post_type = 'h_administrator'; // change HERE
$taxonomy = 'topics'; // change HERE
$q_vars = &$query->query_vars;
if ($pagenow == 'edit.php' && isset($q_vars['post_type']) && $q_vars['post_type'] == $post_type && isset($q_vars[$taxonomy]) && is_numeric($q_vars[$taxonomy]) && $q_vars[$taxonomy] != 0) {
$term = get_term_by('id', $q_vars[$taxonomy], $taxonomy);
$q_vars[$taxonomy] = $term->slug;
}
}
add_filter('parse_query', 'convert_id_to_term_in_query');
// manually add the taxonomies as sub-menus
add_action('admin_menu', 'add_tax_menus' );
function add_tax_menus() {
add_submenu_page('notes.php', 'New Topics', 'New Topics', 'manage_categories', 'edit-tags.php?taxonomy=topics');
}
