wp-admin/includes/class-walker-category-checklist.php:73Start the element output.
$outputstring$data_objectWP_Term$depthintoptional0$argsarrayoptionalarray()$current_object_idintoptional02 hooks fire while Walker_Category_Checklist::start_el() runs, in this order:
Filters the category or list of categories.
Filters the category or list of categories.
public function start_el( &$output, $data_object, $depth = 0, $args = array(), $current_object_id = 0 ) { // Restores the more descriptive, specific name for use within this method. $category = $data_object; if ( empty( $args['taxonomy'] ) ) { $taxonomy = 'category'; } else { $taxonomy = $args['taxonomy']; } if ( 'category' === $taxonomy ) { $name = 'post_category'; } else { $name = 'tax_input[' . $taxonomy . ']'; } $args['popular_cats'] = ! empty( $args['popular_cats'] ) ? array_map( 'intval', $args['popular_cats'] ) : array(); $class = in_array( $category->term_id, $args['popular_cats'], true ) ? ' class="popular-category"' : ''; $args['selected_cats'] = ! empty( $args['selected_cats'] ) ? array_map( 'intval', $args['selected_cats'] ) : array(); if ( ! empty( $args['list_only'] ) ) { $aria_checked = 'false'; $inner_class = 'category'; if ( in_array( $category->term_id, $args['selected_cats'], true ) ) { $inner_class .= ' selected'; $aria_checked = 'true'; } $output .= "\n" . '<li' . $class . '>' . '<div class="' . $inner_class . '" data-term-id=' . $category->term_id . ' tabindex="0" role="checkbox" aria-checked="' . $aria_checked . '">' . /** This filter is documented in wp-includes/category-template.php */ esc_html( apply_filters( 'the_category', $category->name, '', '' ) ) . '</div>'; } else { $is_selected = in_array( $category->term_id, $args['selected_cats'], true ); $is_disabled = ! empty( $args['disabled'] ); $li_element_id = wp_unique_prefixed_id( "in-{$taxonomy}-{$category->term_id}-" ); $checkbox_element_id = wp_unique_prefixed_id( "in-{$taxonomy}-{$category->term_id}-" ); $output .= "\n<li id='" . esc_attr( $li_element_id ) . "'$class>" . '<label class="selectit"><input value="' . $category->term_id . '" type="checkbox" name="' . $name . '[]" id="' . esc_attr( $checkbox_element_id ) . '"' . checked( $is_selected, true, false ) . disabled( $is_disabled, true, false ) . ' /> ' . /** This filter is documented in wp-includes/category-template.php */ esc_html( apply_filters( 'the_category', $category->name, '', '' ) ) . '</label>'; } }Introduced in 2.5.1. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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