Title: Backend admin edit post customization without plugin
Last modified: September 8, 2019

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# Backend admin edit post customization without plugin

 *  Resolved [elboz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elboz/)
 * (@elboz)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backend-admin-edit-post-customization-without-plugin/)
 * Hi All,
    My project is to create a WordPress website with my own theme and with
   no external plugin (or at least a minimum of them) to have a better understanding(
   and learn) how wordpress works and to be able to adapt my future devs.
 * I already created the home page of the front-end with the menu I wanted (with
   the theme) and a simple YouTube plugin. (I used bootstrap for the positioning
   and sass to generate the css)
 * One of my last difficulty is on the admin back-end custom post edit (without 
   external plugin) to improve the customer post edit experience ( I want to keep
   it in the admin menu at the moment).
    I do not understand how I can fully customize
   the admin back-end edit custom posts .
 * I managed to :
    – create the custom post type – Modify the column list of the
   custom post list – Create the taxonomies (at the moment I do not use metabox 
   because I do not need it).
 * But I do not know how to modify the appearance of the admin edit custom post :
   
   + to aggregate many taxonomies on on display box + to add css to the edit post
   + add admin boxes + Change my taxonomies as dropdown or a list box + Change my
   taxonomies as checkbox without leave the possibility to add other values + …
 * I someone could help me on the methodology (and functions that I have to use)
   or tutorials to follow it would be a great help.
 * Thanks

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 *  [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backend-admin-edit-post-customization-without-plugin/#post-11911586)
 * The trick is to find a plugin that does something similar, and read the code.
   
   Also, use the [Code Reference](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference) and
   its search.
 *  Thread Starter [elboz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elboz/)
 * (@elboz)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backend-admin-edit-post-customization-without-plugin/#post-11912384)
 * Thanks a lot Joy,
    I will try that.
 *  Thread Starter [elboz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elboz/)
 * (@elboz)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backend-admin-edit-post-customization-without-plugin/#post-11979845)
 * Just to help people that need the same type of tuto, I found a good on here
    
   [https://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/wordpress-custom-taxonomy-input-panels](https://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/wordpress-custom-taxonomy-input-panels)
 * This website was a very good source of tuto for me at least :-).

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## Tags

 * [admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin/)
 * [Backend](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/backend/)
 * [customization](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/customization/)
 * [edit-post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/edit-post/)

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 * Last reply from: [elboz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elboz/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backend-admin-edit-post-customization-without-plugin/#post-11979845)
 * Status: resolved

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