Category field wirh categories from certain parent ID

Sorry for replying late. I am not sure if it’ll work or not, open render-form.php and see the function taxonomy in line 1213, you’ll see there are some exclude option in line 1243, 1266. Change the exclude text to include (not the variables). See if it works.

Hello Tareq,

It is no problem. I managed to change it to include and it worked to show the category you fill in. But my question was if it was possible to insert a parent ID, so that all its sub categories show in the list. not the filled in category id but the categories which are a sub category of that category.

Here I am again, while testing out I found the solution. I changed the “include” to “child_of”.

But still my question remains, can you add a checkbox or something so that it uses parent id or simply the category id of categories you want to show/not show. Because my guess is that when i update the plugin, my changes will be replaced.

Yes, your changes will be lost if you update. There are many possibilities and many combinations might be possible if you I put any checkbox or any option. I need to thin about it 🙂

Hello Tareq,

Oh than that’s not a solution for us. You could make it this way:

a drop down selection above the field of the category with the following values: insert,exclude,child of

than in the code you could do the following:
‘class’ => $taxonomy,
$categoryselection => $exclude,
‘selected’ => $selected,

simply replacing the text with a variable.

I hop you can implement this.

Thanks for the idea

I need this same exact feature as described in the original post. I need to be able to set this option in the frontend form editor just as we currently can set excluded categories.

My category structure will be continuously growing and I can’t keep tracking categories added by other authors and then add those IDs to the exclude field.

Thanks for your attention to this issue and for writing a great plugin! 🙂

Yes would be nice if this would be implemented!

Tareq Will this feature be included some day?

Sorry for the delay as the development is currently paused. It’ll be started again and this feature is on the to-do list 🙂

Aaah ok Tareq, well great to hear ;)!

Version 2.1.8 has just been released and this feature is included 🙂

I think the meta fields value is overloaded and it exceeds it’s capacity. That’s why it shows nothing. May be you’ve a big form. This is serialized data and unserializing it, I got false. So there’s the problem.