Title: Adjust Admin Categories
Author: Masahiro NAKASHIMA
Published: <strong>August 20, 2014</strong>
Last modified: June 27, 2022

---

Search plugins

![](https://ps.w.org/adjust-admin-categories/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=968809)

This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/adjust-admin-categories_33a6d8.svg)

# Adjust Admin Categories

 By [Masahiro NAKASHIMA](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kanakogi/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/adjust-admin-categories.2.2.6.zip)

 * [Details](https://es-hn.wordpress.org/plugins/adjust-admin-categories/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://es-hn.wordpress.org/plugins/adjust-admin-categories/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://es-hn.wordpress.org/plugins/adjust-admin-categories/#installation)
 * [Development](https://es-hn.wordpress.org/plugins/adjust-admin-categories/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/adjust-admin-categories/)

## Description

Installing this plugin allows you to adjust the behavior of the area below the posts
screen category and custom taxonomy box.

 1. Stop the checkbox from moving
 2. Change checkbox to radio button
 3. Make parent categories unselectable
 4. Required to Category or Taxonomies

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * `/assets/screenshot-1.png`
 * [[
 * `/assets/screenshot-2.png`
 * [[
 * `/assets/screenshot-3.png`
 * [[
 * `/assets/screenshot-4.png`

## Installation

 1. Upload the entire `adjust-admin-categories` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/`
    directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. The control panel of Head Cleaner is in ‘Settings > Adjust Categories’.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/113a252eaaf4685e849023c64872086619e65d979521b65300292d537df3bcc1?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Works 🙂](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-1878/)󠁿

 [luckyfella73](https://profiles.wordpress.org/luckyfella73/) March 30, 2021

Thanks for this nice feature! Would be even better if we could exclude categories
from being affected to prevent the default category (coming with Wordpress) from
unnecessarily being displayed. Not meant as criticism – just an idea maybe for future
versions 😉

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6fa7662038d04a9981fb7e2f7694ac735b908766fa712bf1c4dfc997e36f94b1?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Many thks!!!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/many-thks/)󠁿

 [simongendrin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/simongendrin/) July 15, 2019

WHat the **ck the checkbox by default in hierachy taxonomy is buggy!! Even the last
wordpress 5.2.2 is still buggy ! Thanks for this plugins to help me resolve it and
add features as set a radio to a taxonomy.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a7381014dd72a01684a6802252c16271e40a456488de6c20d25f832349f108cd?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Awesome!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/awesome-6655/)󠁿

 [nuriarai](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nuriarai/) April 26, 2019

It will be the best if also made the category hierarchy collapsible.

 [ Read all 4 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/adjust-admin-categories/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Adjust Admin Categories” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Masahiro NAKASHIMA ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kanakogi/)
 *   [ saillmone ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/saillmone/)
 *   [ katanyan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/katanyan/)
 *   [ rinoshiyo ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ishiiyoshinori/)
 *   [ nashiko ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nashiko/)
 *   [ twinpictures ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/twinpictures/)

[Translate “Adjust Admin Categories” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/adjust-admin-categories)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/adjust-admin-categories/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/adjust-admin-categories/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/adjust-admin-categories/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/adjust-admin-categories/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

**2.2.5 – 27 June 2022**
 Parent taxonomies selectable if parent taxonomies don’t
have children.

**2.2.3 – 15 April 2020**
 Non selectable parent categories are bold and no longer
wrapped in a clickable label element

**2.2.0 – 29 June 2018**
 Bug fix. Thanks! @nashiko

**2.1.0 – 28 Feb 2018**
 Bug fix.

**2.0.0 – 1 January 2017**
 Bug fix.

**1.2.0 – 1 December 2016**
 Bug fix. Thanks! @ishiiyoshinori

**1.1.9 -15 March 2016**
 Bug fix.

**1.1.8 – 3 December 2015**
 Merged “quick edit problem” Thanks! katanyan.

**1.1.7 – 3 December 2015**
 Merged “If parent category has no children, not make
it unselectable.” Thanks! saillmone.

**1.1.1 – November 8, 2014**
 For custom taxonomy and custom types.

**1.0.1 – August 18, 2014**
 Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **2.2.6**
 *  Last updated **4 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.0.0**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/adjust-admin-categories/)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://es-hn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[category](https://es-hn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://es-hn.wordpress.org/plugins/adjust-admin-categories/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  4 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/adjust-admin-categories/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/adjust-admin-categories/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/adjust-admin-categories/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/adjust-admin-categories/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/adjust-admin-categories/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/adjust-admin-categories/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/adjust-admin-categories/reviews/)

## Contributors

 *   [ Masahiro NAKASHIMA ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kanakogi/)
 *   [ saillmone ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/saillmone/)
 *   [ katanyan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/katanyan/)
 *   [ rinoshiyo ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ishiiyoshinori/)
 *   [ nashiko ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nashiko/)
 *   [ twinpictures ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/twinpictures/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/adjust-admin-categories/)

## Donate

Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin?

 [ Donate to this plugin ](http://www.amazon.co.jp/registry/wishlist/2TUGZOYJW8T4T/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=247&creative=7399&linkCode=ur2&tag=wpccc-22)