How to Display Taxonomies with Select2 in Frontend as does ACF in Backend

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  • Kevin Mamaqi

  • July 13, 2016 at 4:41 am

  Hello,

  I am using ACF Taxonomy and Select 2 in my theme to retrieve a list of taxonomies and I want to display them the way the taxonomies appear in the backend of ACF (http://imgur.com/nfJYj0o), they are ordered and with subitems and I need to do exactly the same.

  Any clue how to do it with select2 please? (I think that’s the plugin used by ACF).
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  • James

  • July 13, 2016 at 3:47 pm

  Hi @kevin-mamaqi

  Could you please explain what did you mean by “how to do it with select2?” If you want to show a taxonomy input field like the one on the backend, I believe you can use the acf_form() function. This page should give you more idea about it: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/create-a-front-end-form/.

  I hope this helps 🙂
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  • Kevin Mamaqi

  • July 13, 2016 at 3:53 pm

  I mean the order and style. The backend dropdown has subcategories differenciated. And O’ve seen that acf uses select2 for the dropdown, that’s what I want to have.
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  • James

  • July 13, 2016 at 4:08 pm

  Hi @kevin-mamaqi

  You can check how ACF does it by looking into the get_choices() function in “wp-content/plugins/advanced-custom-fields-pro/fields/taxonomy.php”.

  Hope this helps 🙂