I have created a custom post type named banners. Thereby I register a new taxonomy called location that specifies on which page the banner is to be shown. Everything is great however when I click on the custom posts type 'Banner' in the admin window I see all the banners created however the table does not have a column for the taxonomy 'Location'.
In other words I want to be able to see what location the banner is in, in the banners listing.
For those interested, the register_taxonomy function, as of WordPress 3.5, now offers an argument for show_admin_column
(false by default). Set to true
, it automatically displays the taxonomy column in the admin.
You can use the manage_post-type_custom_column and manage_edit_post-type_columns filters to add your taxonomy column to the post type listing.
add_action( 'admin_init', 'my_admin_init' );
function my_admin_init() {
add_filter( 'manage_edit-banner_columns', 'my_new_custom_post_column');
add_action( 'manage_banner_custom_column', 'location_tax_column_info', 10, 2);
}
function my_new_custom_post_column( $column ) {
$column['location'] = 'Location';
return $column;
}
function location_tax_column_info( $column_name, $post_id ) {
$taxonomy = $column_name;
$post_type = get_post_type($post_id);
$terms = get_the_terms($post_id, $taxonomy);
if (!empty($terms) ) {
foreach ( $terms as $term )
$post_terms[] ="<a href='edit.php?post_type={$post_type}&{$taxonomy}={$term->slug}'> " .esc_html(sanitize_term_field('name', $term->name, $term->term_id, $taxonomy, 'edit')) . "</a>";
echo join('', $post_terms );
}
else echo '<i>No Location Set. </i>';
}
//what version of wordpress you are using
//since wp 3.5 you can pass parameter show_admin_column=>true
// hook into the init action and call create_book_taxonomies when it fires
add_action( 'init', 'create_book_taxonomies', 0 );
// create two taxonomies, genres and writers for the post type "book"
function create_book_taxonomies() {
// Add new taxonomy, make it hierarchical (like categories)
$labels = array(
'name' => _x( 'Genres', 'taxonomy general name' ),
'singular_name' => _x( 'Genre', 'taxonomy singular name' ),
'search_items' => __( 'Search Genres' ),
'all_items' => __( 'All Genres' ),
'parent_item' => __( 'Parent Genre' ),
'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Genre:' ),
'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Genre' ),
'update_item' => __( 'Update Genre' ),
'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Genre' ),
'new_item_name' => __( 'New Genre Name' ),
'menu_name' => __( 'Genre' ),
);
$args = array(
'hierarchical' => true,
'labels' => $labels,
'show_ui' => true,
'show_admin_column' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'genre' ),
);
register_taxonomy( 'genre', array( 'book' ), $args );
}