Custom post Types and Categories

  • Resolved doiches

    (@doiches)


    12 years, 4 months ago

    Hi everyone in the forum,
    i have a site working with a custom post type (as author) and the “default” posts (as articles). As it can be imagined one is for the articles and the custom post type is to record the authors of the articles.
    i am wondering if it is possible that teh custom post type would have its own categories, i mean in articles there is several categories no needed (moreover these categories confusses everybody). that means post with one category list into the categeory metabox and the custom post type with another one in other/ same metabox.
    any idea or suggestion? tnx in advanced.

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  • Howdy,

    Sure, you can create a custom taxonomy, and then in your definition of the custom post type you can tell it to use that custom taxonomy.

    Creating taxonomy:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Taxonomies

    Register Post Type:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/register_post_type

    It can be rewarding / educational to do all that yourself, but there are also some really good plugins out there to help you speed this up.
    One I use is:
    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/

    Good luck,
    Paul

    Thread Starter doiches

    (@doiches)

    Thanks for the reply,
    i already tryed the plugin you related (it is really useful). moreover it is actived becuase i am using as i wrote a custom post type.
    The prob with the solution you propose is that i am using also the role scoper plugin to filter post access, letting some groups to read or not the post depending on the categroies selected.
    SO here is the goal, to avoid the users in the admin panel when they are creating the post to view all categories, forcing them to check one of some restricted category list.
    I was looking for something that make not visble the categories the admin want in the category metabox, but no luck after two days.

    Ah, so you want to control which categories different authors can post to, based on the authors’ assigned role?

    You might try:
    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/advanced-access-manager/

    I’m not certain that was it, but there IS a plugin in the repository that lets you restrict specific categories to specific roles.

    Paul

    Thread Starter doiches

    (@doiches)

    Hi freakingid, tnx for the reply,
    let me try to explain it in other way to make it easier to understand (if i can make it easier).
    i have added to the custom post type the metabox which contains all categories. this is the same metabox that when posting (new or editing) is showes to the user.The point is to exclude some of this categories.
    I suppose the category list, to be shwon in the metabox of the post and custom post type, is obtained “querying” the categories table in the DB. but no idea how to choose which categories should be appear in each metabox, even if it were possible.
    Hope it make it more clear where i am stuck.

    Thread Starter doiches

    (@doiches)

    Hi,
    as soon as i got tyred of looking for some plug or code which could filter the categories in the metabox, i started playing aroun with the metabox.php and i almost got it, but i a stuck in a point:
    does anyone know how to exclude some categories returned from the function (contained in metabox.php):

    wp_terms_checklist($post->ID, array( ‘taxonomy’ => $taxonomy, ‘popular_cats’ => $popular_ids ) ) ;

    tnx in advanced

    Thread Starter doiches

    (@doiches)

    Solved

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/excludin-categories?replies=2

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