Custom taxonomy meta box callback

[johnbillion]

I'd like to be able to specify my own meta box function for my custom taxonomies.

Currently if I want to specify my own meta box for my custom taxonomy, I must set the public parameter to false and then add my own meta box using add_meta_box(). It would be nice to just do this with a callback function parameter in register_taxonomy().

Example:

register_taxonomy( 'foo', 'bar', array(
    'meta_box_callback' => 'my_meta_box'
) );

I'll write up a patch if there's a chance of it going in.

+1 on the idea.

Just to avoid confusion, in register_post_type() there's a 'register_meta_box_cb' argument which receives a callback. In that callback, you are supposed to call add_meta_box() or remove_meta_box(), as necessary.

there's a patch for that

This can wait.

This appears to work for me in 3.5 out-of-the-box. Has the patch been silently added to the repo without updating this ticket?

There is no code in 3.5 for handling the 'meta_box_callback' argument. You probably have a plugin installed or something.

Related: #14877

The name is different, but it appears that the same functionality is referenced in wp-includes/post.php around line 1178 and 1336

you're looking for 'register_meta_box_cb'

The idea was to pass the callback directly to register_taxonomy(), whereas 'register_meta_box_cb' is an argument you pass to register_post_type().