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Change the appearance of a taxonomy's meta box input in the Edit screen to something other than the Category checkboxes or Tag free text entry, allowing you to have your users easily pick from a predefined set of terms.<\/p>\n\n\n

    \n
  1. Upload the plugin files to the \/wp-content\/plugins\/transform-meta-boxes\/<\/strong> directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.<\/li>\n
  2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress<\/li>\n
  3. Use the Settings -> Transform Meta Boxes screen to configure the plugin, picking which taxonomies you want to transform and how.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
    \n

    How do I add more terms now?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

    These meta box alternatives remove the ability to freely enter new terms on the same Edit screen, meaning you need to add terms on the relevant taxonomy page first.<\/p>\n\n

    This is by design, so that it is harder to accidentally end up tagging your posts with typos or little used terms.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n

    0.1.7<\/h4>\n\n
      \n
    • Bugfix: stopped creating deprecated dynamic properties for PHP 8.3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

      0.1.6<\/h4>\n\n
        \n
      • Tested against 6.4 and 6.5<\/li>\n
      • Bugfix: don't show non-public taxonomies like wp_pattern_category<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

        0.1.5<\/h4>\n\n
          \n
        • Tested against 6.3.2<\/li>\n
        • Bugfix: later versions of PHP didn't like when first activating the plugin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

          0.1.4<\/h4>\n\n
            \n
          • Bugfix: changed deprecated way of calling settings page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

            0.1.3<\/h4>\n\n
              \n
            • Tested against 5.2.1<\/li>\n
            • Will not work with Gutenberg until https:\/\/github.com\/WordPress\/gutenberg\/issues\/13816 is sorted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

              0.1.2<\/h4>\n\n
                \n
              • Tested against 4.6.2<\/li>\n
              • Bugfix: Check for deactivated taxonomies<\/li>\n
              • Bugfix: Doesn't use the deprecrated get_terms() call now<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

                0.1.1<\/h4>\n\n
                  \n
                • Tested against 4.6.1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

                  0.1<\/h4>\n\n
                    \n
                  • Initial release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","raw_excerpt":"Alter any taxonomy's meta box appearance (in the Classic Editor) to single or multiple select dropdowns, or toggle button style checkboxes.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/42725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42725"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/keith_wp"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=42725"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=42725"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=42725"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=42725"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=42725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}