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I have a custom taxonomy, and would like to force the user to select at least one term from that taxonomy when creating a post in the WordPress admin back-end. Is this possible?

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I forgot to mention - I'm using a drop-down field to display the taxonomy terms when creating a post. – Emzo May 23 '11 at 21:08

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No. This is not completely possible. One solution would be to swap out the default UI on /wp-admin/post.php & /wp-admin/post-new.php. You can provide the user with radio buttons or a select box. This will work relatively well, but can not be 100% trusted. There is still the possibility that a user could remove all terms via quick edit in /wp-admin/edit.php.

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Hmm, not so straight-forward. Another idea I had was to use the save_post hook to check if a term had been selected, and if not, I could add a default term from the taxonomy. – Emzo May 23 '11 at 21:11
That's actually really easy to do, this snippet is a good place to start: wordpress.mfields.org/2010/… – mfields May 23 '11 at 21:50

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