Hiding some taxonomy terms from meta box on new post / edit post screen

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Problem:

When creating a new custom post, or editing an existing one, I want to list all of the taxonomy terms in the Departments meta box except for a couple of terms.

Is there a recommended way to hide / exclude terms in the meta box?

Solution:

There isn't such kind of built-in feature within Toolset plugins or WordPress.

You might consider custom codes, for example:

https://toolset.com/forums/topic/hiding-some-taxonomy-terms-from-meta-box-on-new-post-edit-post-screen/#post-2246649

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This topic contains 2 replies, has 2 voices.

Last updated by Saul Baizman 3 years, 6 months ago.

Assisted by: Luo Yang.

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December 16, 2021 at 5:50 pm #2246297

Saul Baizman

Hi there,

I've created a custom taxonomy we'll call Departments and associated it with a custom post type. When creating a new custom post, or editing an existing one, I want to list all of the taxonomy terms in the Departments meta box except for a couple of terms.

Is there a recommended way to hide / exclude terms in the meta box? Before writing this message, I did some research on the web, and I found some possibilities using the following filters: list_terms_exclusions, pre_get_terms, and terms_pre_query.

Thanks for any guidance you can offer.

Saul

December 17, 2021 at 7:06 am #2246649

Luo Yang

Hello,

There isn't such kind of built-in feature within Toolset plugins or WordPress.

You might consider custom codes, I have searched it in google, and found some related topics, for example:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11245378/how-to-hide-some-categories-in-category-list-under-post-in-wordpress

According to our support policy, we don't provide such kind of custom codes support, you can also check it with our Toolset contractors:
https://toolset.com/contractors/

December 18, 2021 at 5:28 am #2247451

Saul Baizman

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!