Removing the “Popular Terms” area from the Taxonomy Edit Screen in the Admin Area

Question

Personally I really dislike how wordpress shows all the "popular terms" in different sizes on the taxonomy add/edit screen in the admin area.

Does anyone know of a way to either remove this entire area completely by adding code to your functions.php file

and/or

how to just change this specific area so that none of the popular terms show up with different font sizes/styles?

Thank you

Answer 1

Hi @NetConstructor:

Oh, I love it when you give me an easy one. Starts to make up for all those harder ones... (well, partly. ;-)

So what you want is to replace this:

With this:

How? Use the 'wp_tag_cloud' hook which you can put into your theme's functions.php file or in a .php file of a plugin you might be writing. For this one I tested the global variable $pagenow to make sure it was on the term edit page. In the hook just strip out the style attribute from each of the <a> elements:

add_action('wp_tag_cloud','modify_taxonomy_tag_cloud',10,2);
function modify_taxonomy_tag_cloud($html,$args) {
  global $pagenow;
  if ('edit-tags.php'==$pagenow) // Only for the tag edit page
    $html = preg_replace("#style='[^']+'#Us",'',$html);
  return $html;
}

Answer 2

Just to offer up an alternative using a CSS override which will actually have the same effect as Mike's solution.

add_action( 'admin_print_styles-edit-tags.php', 'normalize_tag_cloud' );
function normalize_tag_cloud() {
    ?>  
    <style type="text/css">.tagcloud a { font-size:inherit!important }</style>
    <?php
}

I don't think either way is better, simply wanted to share a way to approach the problem differently.. ;)