Custom Taxonomies Menu Widget

Creates a simple menu of your custom taxonomies and their associated terms, ideal for sidebars. Highly customisable via widget control panel.

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Compatibility

• Current version of the plugin: 1.2.2
• Requires at least: WordPress 3.2
• Compatible up to: WordPress 3.3.1

Description

Creates a simple menu of your custom taxonomies and their associated terms, ideal for sidebars. Highly customisable via checkboxes to select which custom taxonomies and terms are displayed in the menu.

• Select which custom taxonomies to display
• Select which terms to display within the selected custom taxonomies
• Choose the order in which terms are displayed within the custom taxonomies (ID, name, count, etc)
• Choose whether to display the taxonomy name as a title
• Choose whether to display the list of terms as a hierarchy
• Choose whether to hide terms with no posts
• NEW - New terms are now automatically added to the menu

Comprehensive information on installing, configuring and using the plugin can be found here

• Configuration Guide
• FAQ

All support is handled at the Studiograsshopper Forum. I do not have time to monitor the wordpress.org forums, therefore please post any questions on my site's forum.

Installation

Installing for the first time

• Download the latest version of the plugin to your computer.
• Extract and upload the folder custom-taxonomies-menu-widget to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. Please ensure that you do not rename any folder or filenames in the process.
• Activate the plugin in your Dashboard via the “Plugins” menu item.
• Go to your Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets page and configure the widget’s options.

Alternatively, use the Plugins>Add New option in the Dashboard menu and type Custom Taxonomies Menu Widget in the search box. Once WordPress finds the plugin, follow the onscreen instructions for installation.

Note for WordPress Multisite users

• Install the plugin in your /plugins/ directory (do not install in the /mu-plugins/ directory).
• In order for this plugin to be visible to blog owners, the plugin has to be activated for each blog by the Network Administrator. Each Site Admin can then configure the plugin’s Settings page in their site’s Admin Settings.

Changelog

1.2.2

• Released 1 January 2012
• Bug fix: Fixed PHP data type error

1.2.1

• Released 29 December 2011
• Bug fix: Fixed PHP error on upgrade with $known_terms returning NULL

1.2

• Released 28 December 2011
• Bug fix: Now ignores taxonomies with no terms
• Bug fix: Fixed missing internationalisation for strings in the widget form
• Bug fix: Enqueues admin CSS properly now
• Enhance: Upped minimum WP version requirement to 3.2 - upgrade!
• Enhance: Widget sub-class now uses PHP5 constructor
• Enhance: Widget control form made wider, less scrolling required for long taxonomy checklist
• Enhance: Added activation hook function for WP version check, deprecated SGR_CTMW_WP_VERSION_REQ constant
• Enhance: sgr_ctmw_wp_version_check() deprecated
• Enhance: sgr_ctmw_admin_notices() deprecated
• Enhance: Added SGR_CTMW_HOME for plugin's homepage url on studiograsshopper
• Enhance: Plugin files reorganised, sgr-ctmw-admin-core.php no longer used
• Feature: 'hide_empty' options added, to allow display of empty terms in the menu
• Feature: New terms are now automatically added to menu, and 'checked' in the widget form

1.1.1

• Released 1 March 2011
• Bug fix: Removed debug code form sgr_ctmw_wp_version_check() function

1.1

• Released 4 November 2010
• Feature: Added option to hide Taxonomy title
• Feature: Added option to select whether or not to display terms as a hierarchy

1.0

• Public release 9 October 2010

Screenshots – current version

Note: This is just an example with dummy taxonomies/terms to show what the widget control panel looks like. Your widget control panel will display your custom taxonomies and terms.