Flat Taxonomy Checklists

Good to hear from you again! Thanks for the kind words and for your question. Thanks as well for diving into the code and attempting your own implementation.

You may have found the “Checklist” column in the “Taxonomy Support” section of the Settings/Media Library Assistant General tab. That option setting does what you want (I believe) but it only works on the Media/Edit Media screen and in the Media Manager Modal (popup) Window. That’s because the way WordPress supports those areas is quite different from support provided in the Quick Edit and Bulk Edit areas. I always to be as WordPress-like as possible and I tried to match what’s already there for posts and pages.

You mentioned that you’ve had some success on the “upload screen“. I assume that refers to the Bulk Edit Area on the Upload New Media screen; is that right?

I don’t have any plans to add checklists to the Quick/Bulk Edit areas at this time, but I can investigate the work required. I’d be happy to look at your code as a starting point if you’d like to share it. The best way to proceed would be by email. . If you send me your contact information I will reply with more details and an address where you can send test results. You can use the Contact Us page at our web site:

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I look forward to hearing from you on this interesting suggestion. Thanks for your continued interest in the plugin.

Thanks for contacting me offline and sharing your code for the checklist-style taxonomy display.

I have uploaded a new MLA Development Version dated 20180422 that adds the “checklist-style” flat taxonomy display to the Quick and Bulk Edit areas. This version also extends the “checked-on-top” option to all checklist-style taxonomies in the Quick Edit area.

To get the Development Version you can follow the instructions in this earlier topic:

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It would be great if you can install the Development Version and let me know how it works for you. Thanks for inspiring this MLA enhancement!

That’s great. I’m putting some finishing touches on that site as we speak so I’ll make a backup and test out the development version today.

Thanks David!

A couple of quick observations for you David.

1) I see you didn’t incorporate the checklist support into the bulk upload screen. Any specific reason for that…even if only as an option? Not a huge issue…As mentioned, that’s the one screen I was able to work out on my own so I can certainly continue to do that if necessary. I’ll just have to be cautious with updates in the future so as to keep the functionality.

2) As to the quick edit area, it looks good except some formatting issues. When using the media assistant, the thumbnail images are initially in a span tag so they are inline. When you open the quick editor, they are in a div so by default, they are block level which pushes the fields down below the image instead of starting next to it. Setting the div to inline or inline-block would avoid that.

3) The checklist columns currently stack on top of each other in the Quick edit mode which looks quite odd and takes up a good bit of vertical real estate (I realize why it’s that way after seeing the bulk edit screen). Since you swap things around a bit for that screen anyway, possibly having any checklist boxes align in a row and make use of any available width for the quick edit screen? Making use of flexbox would make that trivial and avoid any unnecessarily complex CSS to handle it while still making it quite responsive.

You could also likely cap the width of the filename/description area at a certain width, reduce the default size of the checklist boxes and create a good bit of extra horizontal space to avoid having to stack things except on fairly small screens where it’s unavoidable.

Still playing with it, but it should definitely help with edits and updates going forward.

Thanks again for all the assistance you provide.

John

I have uploaded a new MLA Development Version dated 20180423 that moves the “checklist-style” flat taxonomy display back to the right-hand column in the Quick and Bulk Edit areas. This version also extends the “checklist-style” flat taxonomy display to the Bulk Edit area on the Media/Add New (Upload New Media) screen.

It would be great if you can install the latest Development Version and let me know how it works for you. Thanks for helping me with this MLA enhancement!

I have released MLA version 2.73, which contains the final changes made for this topic.

I am marking the topic resolved, but please update it if you have any problems or further questions regarding the checklist-style enhancements for flat taxonomies.