Taxonomy Radio Button -> No Default Value

• LaHyenne

• July 16, 2014 at 10:42 pm

Hi,
I define a new taxonomy field with a radio button:

[...]
                'fields' => array (
                        array (
                                'key' => 'field_5301cc2930b53',
                                'label' => 'Catégorie',
                                'name' => 'catgorie',
                                'type' => 'taxonomy',
                                'instructions' => 'my instructions',
                                'required' => 1,
                                'taxonomy' => 'category',
                                'field_type' => 'radio',
                                'allow_null' => 0,
                                'load_save_terms' => 1,
                                'return_format' => 'object',
                                'multiple' => 0,
                        ),
[...]

But whatever I do (I tried ‘default_value’ => 0, ‘default_value’ => 1, ‘default_value’ => 2, ‘default_value’ => ‘name_of_category), I can’t have my radio button checked by default.
How could I achieve that?

Thanks,
LH

PS: Not sure where to put this thread. Sorry if I did a mistake.

• Toby Cryns

• August 15, 2014 at 1:00 pm

bump.

• jennybeaumont

• November 19, 2014 at 12:06 am

+1

• jvwrx

• February 28, 2015 at 11:39 am

Just ran into this need as well. +1

• jvwrx

• February 28, 2015 at 12:00 pm

For anybody else that finds this, I ended up using this solution: wordpress.mfields.org/2010/set-default-terms-for-your-custom-taxonomies-in-wordpress-3-0/.

If you add your taxonomies manually in functions.php, maybe take a look here first: wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/7171/50427.