Allow filtering of term description in Administration Panels

[mfields]

In case where users take full advantage of the taxonomy system by adding descriptions for their terms, the administration panels which display multiple terms can become really messy. It would be great if the $term->description could be filtered. I have attached a diff.

[nacin]

You can always remove the description column and add your own.

Seems sensible, but moving to future release, as we'd like to start pulling from there into specific milestones once scope is set. Revisit after 3.1 scope is set.

[mfields]

The process for removing the original description and adding your own filtered version adds up to quite a few lines of code as documented [here]​http://wordpress.mfields.org/2010/dealing-with-long-taxonomy-descriptions-in-the-wordpress-administration-panels/

Would be awesome to not have to go this route :)

As soon as you have time, it would be great to have this filter added! No pressure.

[mfields]

Now that 3.1 has sortable columns in wp-admin/edit-tags.php, removing the description column and adding a custom one breaks this sorting. It would be great to see this filter added so that plugins that alter the description do not break core functionality. I can resubmit a new patch if this is approved.

[scribu]

No, you can still keep the sorting:

function replace_default_column( $columns ) {
	$columns['my_description'] = $columns['description'];

	unset( $columns['description'] );

	return $columns;
}

add_filter( 'manage_edit-category_columns', 'replace_default_column' );
add_filter( 'manage_edit-category_sortable_columns', 'replace_default_column' );

We just re-use the title and the orderby value from the original column.

[mfields]

@scribu - Thank you! This is really awesome and easy :) Really appreciate you posting the solution.