Allow User to Add Custom Taxonomy

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Last updated by Christian Cox 5 years, 8 months ago.

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April 27, 2019 at 3:53 pm #1236574

bradC-8

We're building a task management and media delivery websites for our photographers. We have a taxonomy named product which includes a list of model home names. We have the list of names populating a select field on our order form. We'd like for clients to have a link/option/capability to add new model home names to the taxonomy through a form, or ideally, through the same form. Is there a way to do this?

April 28, 2019 at 2:23 pm #1236671

Christian Cox

Hi, there is no Toolset Form specifically for managing terms in a taxonomy, but you could use a Form that creates a draft post and allows Users to add new terms in the corresponding taxonomy. Use the Form builder's expert mode to remove all the other visible inputs from the Form, and you have a simple way to add new terms from the front-end of the site. It won't work within another form, though. The shortcode for adding a new taxonomy term in Forms looks like this:

[cred_field field="taxonomy-slug_add_new" taxonomy="taxonomy-slug" type="add_new"]