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Adjust Admin Categories

Description

Installing this plugin allows you to adjust the behavior of the area below the posts screen category and custom taxonomy box.

  1. Stop the checkbox from moving
  2. Change checkbox to radio button
  3. Make parent categories unselectable
  4. Required to Category or Taxonomies

Screenshots

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Installation

  1. Upload the entire adjust-admin-categories folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. The control panel of Head Cleaner is in ‘Settings > Adjust Categories’.

Reviews

March 30, 2021
Thanks for this nice feature! Would be even better if we could exclude categories from being affected to prevent the default category (coming with Wordpress) from unnecessarily being displayed. Not meant as criticism – just an idea maybe for future versions 😉
July 15, 2019
WHat the **ck the checkbox by default in hierachy taxonomy is buggy!! Even the last wordpress 5.2.2 is still buggy ! Thanks for this plugins to help me resolve it and add features as set a radio to a taxonomy.
April 26, 2019
It will be the best if also made the category hierarchy collapsible.
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Contributors & Developers

“Adjust Admin Categories” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

2.2.5 – 27 June 2022
Parent taxonomies selectable if parent taxonomies don’t have children.

2.2.3 – 15 April 2020
Non selectable parent categories are bold and no longer wrapped in a clickable label element

2.2.0 – 29 June 2018
Bug fix.
Thanks! @nashiko

2.1.0 – 28 Feb 2018
Bug fix.

2.0.0 – 1 January 2017
Bug fix.

1.2.0 – 1 December 2016
Bug fix.
Thanks! @ishiiyoshinori

1.1.9 -15 March 2016
Bug fix.

1.1.8 – 3 December 2015
Merged “quick edit problem”
Thanks! katanyan.

1.1.7 – 3 December 2015
Merged “If parent category has no children, not make it unselectable.”
Thanks! saillmone.

1.1.1 – November 8, 2014
For custom taxonomy and custom types.

1.0.1 – August 18, 2014
Initial release.