Title: WordPress Category UI
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# WordPress Category UI

 *  [Timothy Jacobs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timothyblynjacobs/)
 * (@timothyblynjacobs)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-category-ui/)
 * Hi All,
 * Is there anywhere to find documentation, or a good tutorial to replicate the 
   category selector UI that you see on a post or page edit screen?
 * Thanks
 * Timothy

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 *  [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/)
 * (@t31os_)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-category-ui/#post-3704556)
 * Are you referring to the widget or metabox shown to the right of the editor when
   you’re creating/editing posts/pages?
 * If that is indeed what you’re referring to, the applicable code that runs for
   that metabox can be found here.
 * [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.5.1/wp-admin/includes/meta-boxes.php#L368](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.5.1/wp-admin/includes/meta-boxes.php#L368)
 * It’s setup as a metabox callback on hierarchal taxonomies, using `add_meta_box`.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_meta_box](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_meta_box)
 * Unfortunately i don’t think there’s any specific guide for that code, but there’s
   certainly plenty of guides for adding metaboxes out there, but i’d venture to
   guess you’re not looking to make a metabox and have a greater interest in the
   tabbed category list(ie. specifically the code that generates those lists).
 *  Thread Starter [Timothy Jacobs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timothyblynjacobs/)
 * (@timothyblynjacobs)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-category-ui/#post-3704571)
 * Yes exactly. Yeah I got the metabox down, I just need help with the categories.
   Thanks for the link, lets see what happens 🙂

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