WordPress Custom Taxonomy Code Generator

Fill out the form to generate your custom taxonomy code. Also, try out our Custom Post Type code generator!

1 General

2 Visibility

3 Labels

4 Options

5 Capabilities

Name (singular)*
The singular name for your custom taxonomy e.g. Genre, Writer, Person
Name (plural)*
The plural name for your custom taxonomy e.g. Genres, Writers, People
Taxonomy Key
The name of the taxonomy used in code. If left blank, this will be auto populated using the plural name field above
Link To*
The post type to link this custom taxonomy to. It can be a built-in post type or you can select 'custom' and specify your own. Alternatively, you can set it to 'Not linked' but it won't be available within the Admin UI
Link To Custom Post Type*
Hierarchical*
Is this taxonomy hierarchical (have descendants) like categories or not hierarchical like tags.

Public
Should this taxonomy be exposed in the admin UI
Show Admin UI
Whether to generate a default UI for managing this taxonomy
Show In Navigation Menus
Whether this taxonomy is available for selection in the Appearance -> Menus admin screen.
Show Tag Cloud
Whether to allow the Tag Cloud widget to use this taxonomy

Text Domain
Used for internationalization (the process of making the custom taxonomy ready for translation).
Search Items Label
Popular Items Label
All Items Label
Parent Item Label
Parent Item Colon Label
Edit Item Label
Update Item Label
Add New Item Label
New Item Name Label
Seperate Items With Commas Label
Add or Remove Items Label
Choose From Most Used Label
Menu Name Label

Rewrite
Rewrite permalinks with this format. False to prevent rewrite. Default is to use taxonomy as slug
Custom Rewrite - Slug*
Prepend posts with this slug - defaults to taxonomy's name
Custom Rewrite - With Front*
Allows permalinks to be prepended with front base
Custom Rewrite - Hierarchical*
Allow hierarchical urls
Query Variable
False to prevent queries, or provide a custom string value to use for this taxonomy. Default is the taxonomy
Custom Query Variable*
Update Count Callback
A function name that will be called to update the count of a linked object type (such as post)

Advanced Capabilities
Use the default capabilities, or take full control over specific capability names.
Manage Terms Capability
Capability that allows managing terms of this taxonomy
Edit Terms Capability
Capability that allows editing terms of this taxonomy
Delete Terms Capability
Capability that grants the privelege of deleting terms of this taxonomy
Assign Terms Capability
Capability that grants the privelege of assigning terms of this taxonomy

This Generator was created by Brad Vincent using Gravity Forms.

PauldeWouters 6 pts

I'd like to limit the choice to only one term per post/page/cpt, so an option to change the checkbox to a radio button would be cool.

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themergency 7 pts moderator

Hey Paul, please explain more...

can you add the code for radio buttons for taxonomy terms?

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