Make long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly, in WordPress.
WP Chosen implements the Chosen jQuery Plugin for WordPress.
Chosen makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly.
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What color schemes does this support?
WordPress
- Default/Fresh
- Light
- Modern
- Blue
- Coffee
- Ectoplasm
- Midnight
- Ocean
- Sunrise
bbPress
Extras
- 80’s Kid
- Adderley
- Aubergine
- High Contrast Blue
- Cruise
- Flat
- Kirk
- Lawn
- Primary
- Seashore
- Vinyard
American
- From Many One
- NASA 1976
- NASA
- Old Glory
- Open Highway
- Shenandoah
What elements does this target?
/* Options */
var chosen_options = {
disable_search_threshold: 13,
search_contains: true
};
/* Targets */
var chosen_selects = ' select:not(#metakeyselect, [name^=acf_], [name^=edd], [name^=_edd], [name^=sc], [name=wc_order_action], [class*=chosen], [class*=select2], [class*=wc-enhanced-select], [class*=wc-product-search], [class*=wc-enhanced-select-nostd], [class*=wc-customer-search], [class*=wc-category-search], [class=learndash-binary-selector-items], [class=sendgrid-settings-select])',
chosen_targets =
'.wp-pretty-filters' + chosen_selects
+ ', .wp-filter' + chosen_selects
+ ', .media-toolbar' + chosen_selects
+ ', .postbox .inside' + chosen_selects
+ ', .tablenav' + chosen_selects
+ ', .form-table' + chosen_selects
+ ', .form-wrap' + chosen_selects
+ ', .customize-pane-parent' + chosen_selects;
Where can I get support?
- Community: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-chosen
- Development: https://github.com/stuttter/wp-chosen/discussions
ChangeLog
6.2.0 – 2025/12/10
- Update Chosen library
- Fix some errors from Plugin Check
6.1.2 – 2021/05/29
- Update author info
- Add sponsor link
6.1.1 – 2021/03/10
- Tweak third-party plugin compatibility
6.1.0 – 2021/03/09
- Add support for 6 extra color schemes
6.0.0 – 2021/03/09
- Add support for 11 extra color schemes
- Tweak WordPress 5.7 support
- Avoid conflicts with WooCommerce
- Avoid conflicts with SendGrid
- Avoid conflicts with LearnDash
- Avoid conflicts with Advanced Custom Fields
5.2.0 – 2021/03/02
- WordPress 5.7 support
- Avoid conflicts with custom fields
- Avoid conflicts with WooCommerce/selectWoo
- Avoid conflicts with other third party plugins
5.0.1 – 2020/07/27
- Tweak WordPress 5.5 support
5.0.0 – 2020/07/23
- WordPress 5.5 Support
- Upgrade Chosen to 2.0.0 fork
3.2.0 – 2019/10/15
3.1.0 – 2017/06/22
- Avoid conflicts with Easy Digital Downloads
- Avoid conflicts with Stream
- Avoid conflicts with Select2
3.0.0 – 2017/05/09
- Update Chosen to 1.7.0
- Handle several special cases for known wp-admin quirks
- Add target for
.postbox .inside select
- Remove duplicate target for
#posts-filter select
2.1.0 – 2016/11/19
- Target more actions
- Target wp-filters
- Add WP Pretty Filters support
2.0.0 – 2016/10/29
- Target bulk-actions
- Improve efficiency of element targeting
1.1.0 – 2016/09/10
- Remove “Open Sans” font styling rules for WordPress 4.6 support
1.0.0 – 2016/09/08
- First pass outline styling support for improved accessibility
0.7.0 – 2016/04/20
- Target
form-wrap select elements, for taxonomies and such
0.6.0 – 2016/04/06
- Provide filter to override Chosen enqueue handle
0.5.0 – 2016/04/06
- Improved compatibility with third party plugins and themes
0.4.0 – 2016/02/23
- Fix options-reading.php front page incompatibility
0.3.2 – 2016/02/23
- Override retina sprite support
0.3.1 – 2016/02/23
0.3.0 – 2016/02/23
- Bump Chosen to 1.5.1
- Rename enqueue ID to ‘jquery-chosen’
0.2.1 – 2016/02/05
- Only search when there are more than 10 items
0.2.0 – 2016/01/04
0.1.4 – 2015/11/15
0.1.3 – 2015/10/28
- Version JS
- Add support for media
0.1.2 – 2015/10/22
- Update styling
- Target media library
0.1.1 – 2015/10/06
- Fix drop-down search input styling
0.1.0 – 2015/10/01
