I’m currently working on a website that has a custom post type (“schedules”) that requires custom hierarchal taxonomies (named “location” and “servicetype” in this case) to be displayed as radio buttons instead of checklists, as demonstrated in this tutorial.

Here, I had to modify the code to prevent certains terms of the taxonomy that are only being used by other custom post types and not this one, from showing. This is why I didn’t want to use a plugin for that.

However, what happens is that whenever I try to update or save a post from this post type, using the radio button-based taxonomy system, the chosen taxonomy terms doesn’t get saved into the post.

PHP:

add_action( 'admin_menu', 'braintrain_remove_metaboxes');
function braintrain_remove_metaboxes(){
   remove_meta_box('locationdiv','schedules', 'normal');
   remove_meta_box('servicetypediv', 'schedules', 'normal');
}

add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'braintrain_add_metaboxes');
function braintrain_add_metaboxes() {
    add_meta_box( 'location_selector', 'Locations','braintrain_locations_metabox', 'schedules' ,'side','core');
    add_meta_box( 'servicetype_selector', 'Services', 'braintrain_servicetype_metabox', 'schedules' ,'side','core');
}

function braintrain_locations_metabox( $post ) {
$taxonomy = 'location';

$tax = get_taxonomy($taxonomy);
$terms = get_terms($taxonomy,array('hide_empty' => 0));

$name = 'tax_input[' . $taxonomy . ']';

$popular = get_terms( $taxonomy, array( 'orderby' => 'count', 'order' => 'DESC', 'number' => 10, 'hierarchical' => false ) );
$postterms = get_the_terms( $post->ID,$taxonomy );
$current = ($postterms ? array_pop($postterms) : false);
$current = ($current ? $current->term_id : 0);

?>

<div id="taxonomy-<?php echo $taxonomy; ?>" class="categorydiv" >

    <div id="<?php echo $taxonomy; ?>-all" class="tabs-panel" style="border:0; overflow:visible; background-color: transparent; max-height: 100%; padding: 0; margin:0;">
        <ul id="<?php echo $taxonomy; ?>checklist" class="list:<?php echo $taxonomy; ?> categorychecklist form-no-clear" style="margin:0;">
            <?php   foreach($terms as $term) { $termChildren = get_term_children($term->term_id, $taxonomy);
                $id = $taxonomy.'-'.$term->term_id;

                if ( count($termChildren) === 0 ) {
                    echo "<li id='$id'><label class='selectit'>";
                    echo "<input type='radio' id='in-$id' name='{$name}'".checked($current,$term->term_id,false)."value='$term->term_id' />$term->name<br />";
                    echo "</label></li>";
                }

            } ?>
       </ul>
    </div>

</div>
<?php
}

function braintrain_servicetype_metabox( $post ) {
    $taxonomy = 'servicetype';

    $tax = get_taxonomy($taxonomy);
    $terms = get_terms($taxonomy,array('hide_empty' => 0, 'parent' => 0));

    $name = 'tax_input[' . $taxonomy . ']';

$popular = get_terms( $taxonomy, array( 'orderby' => 'count', 'order' => 'DESC', 'number' => 10, 'hierarchical' => false ) );
$postterms = get_the_terms( $post->ID,$taxonomy );
$current = ($postterms ? array_pop($postterms) : false);
$current = ($current ? $current->term_id : 0);

?>

<div id="taxonomy-<?php echo $taxonomy; ?>" class="categorydiv">

    <div id="<?php echo $taxonomy; ?>-all" class="tabs-panel" style="border:0; overflow:visible; background-color: transparent; max-height: 100%; padding: 0; margin:0;">
        <ul id="<?php echo $taxonomy; ?>checklist" class="list:<?php echo $taxonomy; ?> categorychecklist form-no-clear" style="margin:0;">
            <?php   foreach($terms as $term){
                $id = $taxonomy.'-'.$term->term_id; $termChildren = get_term_children($term->term_id, $taxonomy);

                if ( count($termChildren) >= 0 ) {
                echo "<li id='$id'><label class='selectit'>";
                echo "<input type='radio' id='in-$id' name='{$name}'".checked($current,$term->term_id,false)."value='$term->term_id' />$term->name<br />";
                echo "</label></li>";
                }
            }?>
       </ul>
    </div>

</div>

<?php
}