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    • August 24, 2015 at 4:38 am #4247
      redywebs
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      Hi, I’m new to Piklist and I’ve made a hierarchical taxonomy for a custom post type, but want editors to only be able to select child terms. Can this be done with default metabox created or do I have to make a custom one and how?

      I’m also trying to create a shortcode or a widget to display on front-end a list of that taxonomy.

      Here is what I have

       $genreslabels = array(
    'name'              => __( 'Genres', 'redywebs' ),
    'singular_name'     => __( 'Genre', 'redywebs' ),
    'search_items'      => __( 'Search Genres', 'redywebs' ),
    'all_items'         => __( 'All Genres', 'redywebs' ),
    'parent_item'       => __( 'Parent Genre', 'redywebs' ),
    'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Genre:', 'redywebs' ),
    'edit_item'         => __( 'Edit Genre', 'redywebs' ),
    'update_item'       => __( 'Update Genre', 'redywebs' ),
    'add_new_item'      => __( 'Add New Genre', 'redywebs' ),
    'new_item_name'     => __( 'New Genre Name', 'redywebs' ),
    'not_found'         => __( 'No Genres found.', 'redywebs' ),
    'menu_name'         => __( 'Genres', 'redywebs' ),
  );

    $taxonomies[] = array(
      'post_type' => 'catalog'
      ,'name' => 'colections'
      ,'configuration' => array(
        'hierarchical' => true
        ,'labels' => $genreslabels
        ,'show_ui' => true
        ,'query_var' => true
        ,'rewrite' => array( 
          'slug' => __('colection'),
        )
        ,'show_admin_column' => true
        ,'comments' => false
      )
    );

      And this code would show a checkbox list with parents disable, but I’m not sure how and where it should go to achieve what I want:

      $parents = get_terms('colections', array('hide_empty' => false,'parent' => 0 ));
    foreach ($parents as $parent => $value) {
     
      piklist('field', array(
        'type' => 'checkbox',
        'scope' => 'taxonomy',
        'field' => 'colections',
        'label' => $value->name,
        'choices' => piklist(
            get_terms('colections', array(
              'hide_empty' => false,
              'child_of' => $value->term_id
            )),
            array(
              'term_id',
              'name'
            )
        )
      ));
    }

      Could you please help me?

    • August 24, 2015 at 10:39 am #4248
      Steve
      Keymaster

      @redywebs– Welcome to the Piklist community!

      One of the best parts of Piklist is that it’s code-based, which allows you to do almost anything.

      If you only want Editors (or above) to select child terms than you can wrap the field in a conditional statement:

      if(current_user_can('edit_pages')) :

$parents = get_terms('colections', array('hide_empty' => false,'parent' => 0 ));
    foreach ($parents as $parent => $value) {
     
      piklist('field', array(
        'type' => 'checkbox',
        'scope' => 'taxonomy',
        'field' => 'colections',
        'label' => $value->name,
        'choices' => piklist(
            get_terms('colections', array(
              'hide_empty' => false,
              'child_of' => $value->term_id
            )),
            array(
              'term_id',
              'name'
            )
        )
      ));
    }

endif;

      Let me know if that works for you.

    • August 24, 2015 at 12:50 pm #4250
      redywebs
      Member

      Hi Steve, thanks for your quick replay and your time.
      Sorry, I probably did not make myself clear enough (English is not my mother tongue). It is not a conditional statement I was after, I meant anyone editing the post. I have the first part of the code in my main plugin php file, but if I add the second part just after it, it does nothing. That’s why I asked. Should I make it a custom metabox, take it from there and put the whole thing in meta-boxes folder? What am I doing wrong?

      Next, I’d like to create a shortcode or a widget to display on front-end a list of that taxonomy. I have tried to follow all tutorials I’ve found, with no luck. Could you please give me some directions on how to do it?

      Thanks again for your time and patience.

    • August 24, 2015 at 2:19 pm #4251
      Steve
      Keymaster

      I think I understand now:
      1) Your Piklist Field ‘collections’ should go in the meta-boxes folder.
      2) Building widgets with Piklist is easy. You can follow this doc.

      Let me know if this helps.

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