Adjust Admin Categories
Installing this plugin allows you to adjust the behavior of the area below the posts screen category and custom taxonomy box.
5(4 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 3 years agoAs of April 2026, Adjust Admin Categories is a WordPress admin plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 69K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 3 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 60% this week. Top alternative: Loginizer.
5/54 reviews
10K+active installs
69K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
Installing this plugin allows you to adjust the behavior of the area below the posts screen category and custom taxonomy box.
- Stop the checkbox from moving
- Change checkbox to radio button
- Make parent categories unselectable
- Required to Category or Taxonomies
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works :)
by luckyfella73·5 years ago
Thanks for this nice feature! Would be even better if we could exclude categories from being affected to prevent the default category (coming with WordPress) from unnecessarily being displayed. Not meant as criticism – just an idea maybe for future versions 😉
Many thks!!!
by simongendrin·6 years ago
WHat the **ck the checkbox by default in hierachy taxonomy is buggy!!
Even the last wordpress 5.2.2 is still buggy !
Thanks for this plugins to help me resolve it and add features as set a radio to a taxonomy.
- This topic was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by simongendrin.
Awesome!
by nuriarai·6 years ago
It will be the best if also made the category hierarchy collapsible.
Great!
by shimura·11 years ago
Thanks for developing this.
Download Trends
Today: 24Yesterday: 38This week: 123Period total: 5K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.0.0 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.2
96.4%
Other
3.6%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.2.5 – 27 June 2022
Parent taxonomies selectable if parent taxonomies don’t have children.
2.2.3 – 15 April 2020
Non selectable parent categories are bold and no longer wrapped in a clickable label element
2.2.0 – 29 June 2018
Bug fix.
Thanks! @nashiko
2.1.0 – 28 Feb 2018
Bug fix.
2.0.0 – 1 January 2017
Bug fi…
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