I've got a stumper... I've created a new taxonomy called Article Type. I created four values for it, as shown in this metabox:
When I select the "Entertainment" term and update the post, something weird happens: the system creates a new term using the term_id from Entertainment in table wp_terms, see pix below:
This is clearly not the desired effect, I'm just trying to select "Entertainment".
I have no idea where to start digging into this...can anyone tell me why this is happening?
In case it matters, here's the code used to create the taxonomy:
function hhl_article_type() {
$labels = array(
'name' => _x( 'Types', 'Taxonomy General Name', 'hhl' ),
'singular_name' => _x( 'Type', 'Taxonomy Singular Name', 'hhl' ),
'menu_name' => __( 'Article types', 'hhl' ),
'all_items' => __( 'All Items', 'hhl' ),
'parent_item' => __( 'Parent Item', 'hhl' ),
'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Item:', 'hhl' ),
'new_item_name' => __( 'New Item Name', 'hhl' ),
'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Item', 'hhl' ),
'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Item', 'hhl' ),
'update_item' => __( 'Update Item', 'hhl' ),
'view_item' => __( 'View Item', 'hhl' ),
'separate_items_with_commas' => __( 'Separate items with commas', 'hhl' ),
'add_or_remove_items' => __( 'Add or remove items', 'hhl' ),
'choose_from_most_used' => __( 'Choose from the most used', 'hhl' ),
'popular_items' => __( 'Popular Items', 'hhl' ),
'search_items' => __( 'Search Items', 'hhl' ),
'not_found' => __( 'Not Found', 'hhl' ),
'no_terms' => __( 'No items', 'hhl' ),
'items_list' => __( 'Items list', 'hhl' ),
'items_list_navigation' => __( 'Items list navigation', 'hhl' ),
);
$rewrite = array(
'slug' => 'type',
'with_front' => true,
'hierarchical' => false,
);
$args = array(
'labels' => $labels,
'hierarchical' => false,
'public' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'show_admin_column' => true,
'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
'show_tagcloud' => false,
'rewrite' => $rewrite,
'show_in_rest' => false,
'meta_box_cb' => 'post_categories_meta_box',
);
register_taxonomy( 'article_type', array( 'post' ), $args );
}
add_action( 'init', 'hhl_article_type', 0 );
I've got a stumper... I've created a new taxonomy called Article Type. I created four values for it, as shown in this metabox:
When I select the "Entertainment" term and update the post, something weird happens: the system creates a new term using the term_id from Entertainment in table wp_terms, see pix below:
This is clearly not the desired effect, I'm just trying to select "Entertainment".
I have no idea where to start digging into this...can anyone tell me why this is happening?
In case it matters, here's the code used to create the taxonomy:
function hhl_article_type() {
$labels = array(
'name' => _x( 'Types', 'Taxonomy General Name', 'hhl' ),
'singular_name' => _x( 'Type', 'Taxonomy Singular Name', 'hhl' ),
'menu_name' => __( 'Article types', 'hhl' ),
'all_items' => __( 'All Items', 'hhl' ),
'parent_item' => __( 'Parent Item', 'hhl' ),
'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Item:', 'hhl' ),
'new_item_name' => __( 'New Item Name', 'hhl' ),
'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Item', 'hhl' ),
'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Item', 'hhl' ),
'update_item' => __( 'Update Item', 'hhl' ),
'view_item' => __( 'View Item', 'hhl' ),
'separate_items_with_commas' => __( 'Separate items with commas', 'hhl' ),
'add_or_remove_items' => __( 'Add or remove items', 'hhl' ),
'choose_from_most_used' => __( 'Choose from the most used', 'hhl' ),
'popular_items' => __( 'Popular Items', 'hhl' ),
'search_items' => __( 'Search Items', 'hhl' ),
'not_found' => __( 'Not Found', 'hhl' ),
'no_terms' => __( 'No items', 'hhl' ),
'items_list' => __( 'Items list', 'hhl' ),
'items_list_navigation' => __( 'Items list navigation', 'hhl' ),
);
$rewrite = array(
'slug' => 'type',
'with_front' => true,
'hierarchical' => false,
);
$args = array(
'labels' => $labels,
'hierarchical' => false,
'public' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'show_admin_column' => true,
'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
'show_tagcloud' => false,
'rewrite' => $rewrite,
'show_in_rest' => false,
'meta_box_cb' => 'post_categories_meta_box',
);
register_taxonomy( 'article_type', array( 'post' ), $args );
}
add_action( 'init', 'hhl_article_type', 0 );
1 Answer
Reset to default 0Thanks to @Milo for the solution. I deleted all the defaults to condense the code, and then changed the 'meta_box_cb' parameter to 'post_categories_meta_box', and it did indeed give me a tag-style metabox.
As an aside, that's not exactly what I envisioned, so I ended up using CMB2's taxonomy_radio field to get what I was after (a drop-down would have worked too):
meta_box_cbargument is incorrect, read the description for that parameter on the documentation page. Unless you are setting a specific value, it's best to remove it, along with all the other arguments that are set to default values. – Milo Commented Dec 7, 2018 at 16:11