amarkal/amarkal-taxonomy

A set of utility functions for taxonomies in WordPress

amarkal-taxonomy

A set of utility functions for taxonomies in WordPress.

Tested up to: WordPress 4.7
Dependencies: amarkal-ui

Overview

amarkal-taxonomy lets you add custom fields to taxonomies in WordPress, and optionally add columns to the taxonomy terms table. More utility functions will be added in the future.

Installation

Via Composer

If you are using the command line:

$ composer require askupa-software/amarkal-taxonomy:dev-master

Or simply add the following to your composer.json file:

"require": {
    "askupa-software/amarkal-taxonomy": "dev-master"
}

And run the command

$ composer install

This will install the package in the directory vendors/askupa-software/amarkal-taxonomy. Now all you need to do is include the composer autoloader.

require_once 'path/to/vendor/autoload.php';

Manually

Download amarkal-ui and amarkal-taxonomy from github and include them in your project.

require_once 'path/to/amarkal-ui/bootstrap.php';
require_once 'path/to/amarkal-taxonomy/bootstrap.php';

Reference

amarkal_taxonomy_add_field

Add a field to the add & edit forms of a given taxonomy.

amarkal_taxonomy_add_field( $taxonomy_name, $field_type, $field_props )

This function can be used to add fields to the 'add term' and 'edit term' taxonomy forms. See amarkal-ui for supported field types, or register your own field type using amarkal_ui_register_component.

Parameters

• $taxonomy_name (String) Specifies the taxonomy name, e.g. 'category'.
• $field_name (String) Specifies the name/id of the field.
• $field_props (Array) Specifies the UI component's properties. This array should have the original UI component properties as specified in amarkal-ui, as well as the following:
  • type (String) Specifies the type of the field to add. One of the core amarkal-ui components or a registered custom component.
  • title (String) Specifies the form title for this field.
  • description (String) Specifies a short description that will be printed below the field.
  • table (Array) An associative array with the following arguments:
    • show (Boolean) Specifies whether to add a column for this field in the taxonomy terms table.
    • sortable (Boolean) Specifies whether to make the column for this field sortable.

Example Usage

// Add a text field to the 'category' taxonomy 'add' & 'edit' forms:
amarkal_taxonomy_add_field('category', 'cat_icon', array(
    'type'        => 'text',
    'title'       => 'Icon',
    'description' => 'The category\'s icon',
    'table'       => array(
        'show'      => true,  // Add a column to the terms table
        'sortable'  => true   // Make that column sortable
    )
));

// Then you can retrieve the data using:
$icon = get_term_meta( $term_id, 'cat_icon', true );