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How to change wp-admin/edit.php categories filter to a multiselect?

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I'm using GoDaddy hosting, with WordPress Managed plan, so I can't edit anything in wp-admin/ or wp-includes/ folder, the only folder I've permission is wp-content/.

I tried to look it on google, and tried to find the plugins, I found this plugin Post Filter Multiselect but it doesn't working anymore, my WordPress version is 4.9.5 and the plugin were not updated since 9 month ago. So I tried another plugins but neither of them are working.

If I want to add this with themes or plugins how to do it? because I can't found the answer, thank you.

What I want is to make the wp-admin/edit.php categories filter be a multiselect, because in 1 post, there are so many categories, so to narrow it down, it need multiple categories. and there are a lot of categories, around 50 categories.

2 Answers

Answers 1

Have you tried other plugins like search & filter ? I haven't used it myself but it seems to be what you are looking for. Also, have you tried contacting the support to see if they could grant you access to the folder?

Answers 2

OK, so this is slightly a sledgehammer-to-crack-nut approach, but you could install the Advanced Custom Fields plugin and create a Taxonomy field. You can select an Appearance of Multiple Values > Multi Select and make sure that Create Terms, Save Terms and Load Terms are all true so that your categories are synced properly with the post. Finally, in the field group settings you can select the checkbox to hide the normal categories meta box.

It's one that's worked for me in the past without requiring extra plugins (since I already use ACF).

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