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  • October 18, 2016 at 10:13 AM #4313
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    I have a taxonomy used for selectbox and i want to use slug as value instead of ID. How to do that?
    I tried adding an array in ['options'] but its not working

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  • October 18, 2016 at 4:48 PM #4315
    Anh Tran
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    Unfortunately, it's not supported at the moment. Taxonomy field (and user, post fields) stores the term IDs in the database.

    October 19, 2016 at 1:54 PM #4331
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    Thank you. Hopefully you an support it in your next update.

    October 20, 2016 at 5:39 PM #4344
    Anh Tran
    Keymaster

    Just curious, why do you need to store slug instead of ID?

    July 25, 2019 at 5:36 PM #15463
    pza
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    Hey Anh - bumping this old topic, hope you see.

    I too would like to use the taxonomy slug in the Taxonomy select field.

    My purpose is in a custom search form using MB fields. WP doesn't seem to search term IDs passed along by URL.

    • Any suggested way to do this?
    • If I could add data-slug attributes to the taxonomy <option> elements, that would also help (instead of changing the option value)

    Much thanks

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