Force the “Choose from the most used tags” meta box section to always be expanded

Question

I'm looking to have the "most used tags" link within the tag meta box on the post page always be expanded. Couldn't find any helpful plugins to use.

I did find this previous post but the function doesn't seem to be working anymore - I'm wondering if something has changed since that was in 2012.

Answer 1

You can do this using jQuery.

First of all, you need to add your script into your functions.php

function my_theme_scripts() {
    wp_enqueue_script( 'expand-tags', get_site_url() . '/js/expand-tags.js', array( 'jquery' ), '1.0.0', true );
}

add_action( 'admin_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_scripts' );

Then, in your file (expand-tags.js) which is located on, for example, public_html/mysite/js/, you will have to have something like this:

$(document).ready(function() {
   $("#link-post_tag").trigger("click");
});

link-post_tag is the ID of the Choose from the most used tags button, so when the page is loaded, a button click will be triggered.