How do I hide unnecessary tags from taxonomy checkbox?

• Farmer77

• July 9, 2017 at 11:10 pm

I am using Taxonomy post_tags which is displayed with a checkbox on the backend.

The Issue

I have 27 post_tags I want to hide from the checkbox because I know I will never use them again. This other user describes my problem perfectly. He came up with a solution but it looks like a very roundabout way of fixing the problem and I was wondering if there is a more elegant solution.

• John Huebner

• July 9, 2017 at 11:38 pm

Actually, yes. You can use the acf/fields/taxonomy/query filter https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-fields-taxonomy-query/ and adjust the arguments for get_terms() https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_term_query/__construct/ using the “exclude” argument.

• Farmer77

• July 10, 2017 at 3:56 pm

I just fixed it with acf/fields/taxonomy/wp_list_categories. I had to look up all the numerical value of the terms I want excluded, but it works

function my_taxonomy_query( $args, $field) {
  
 $args['exclude'] = array(91,96,2,26,33,15,64,44,62,11,95,77,66,71,10,92,67);

    return $args;
    
}

add_filter('acf/fields/taxonomy/wp_list_categories', 'my_taxonomy_query', 10, 2);

The acf/fields/taxonomy/query filter didn’t work for me at all for some reason, couldn’t even get the example code to work.