Taxonomy dropdown metabox in the back-end

Question

I have registered my custom taxonomy and want to use dropdown in back end... code given here Taxonomy dropdown metabox in the back-end works like a charm.... but now in admin there are two metaboxes one is my custom which shows as drop down and another is default which takes comma seprated input similar as tags and i dont want that... So how could i remove that default meta box...

Answer 1

I had the same question.

You use the remove_meta_box functions mentioned in a previous answer, but you have two options: tagsdiv-{$tax_name} for non-hierarchical taxonomies and {$tax_name}div for hierarchical taxonomies (like categories). So in your case:

 remove_meta_box('tagsdiv-brands', 'post', 'normal');
 remove_meta_box('brandsdiv', 'post', 'normal');

Answer 2

use remove_meta_box. you may need to look at the html source to verify that the div that you want to hide is called tagsdiv-brands, I'm pretty certain it should be correct.

function rajeev_remove_post_items() {
    remove_meta_box('tagsdiv-brands', 'post', 'normal');
}
add_action('admin_menu', 'rajeev_remove_post_items' );

EDIT - I changed the function name from remove_post_items to rajeev_remove_post_items, it's always a good idea to prefix your functions with something likely to be unique to avoid potential collisions.

Answer 3

Just set show_ui to false when you register your taxonomy.