[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #27412: Category meta box: cannot see chosen subcategory if many items in subcategory

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#27412: Category meta box: cannot see chosen subcategory if many items in
subcategory
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 Reporter:  landwire      |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Taxonomy      |     Version:  3.8
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch   |     Focuses:  ui, administration
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Changes (by boonebgorges):

 * keywords:   => needs-patch
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review => Future Release


Comment:

 Hi @landwire - From a Slack conversation we had about this ticket:

 > The behavior being requested makes sense if you have checked terms only
 in a single hierarchy
 >
 > [11:29]
 > But if you’ve checked a couple terms deep in the hierarchy, only the
 first will show at the top of the list, because the rest of the hierarchy
 will be ‘ontop’ with its checked brother
 >
 > [11:30]
 > I think it would be fine to add a parameter that works with
 ‘checked_ontop’ to prevent hierarchies from being split - maybe
 ‘checked_ontop=altruistic’ - but I don’t think the default behavior should
 be changed

 I think it's worth exploring whether it's possible to add a parameter to
 `wp_terms_checklist()` and the checklist walker that implements the
 behavior you'd like. Let's mark `needs-patch` and see if anyone cares
 enough to give it a shot.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/27412#comment:9>
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