Title: wp_terms_checklist_args
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: April 28, 2025

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# apply_filters( ‘wp_terms_checklist_args’, array|string $args, int $post_id )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_terms_checklist_args/?output_format=md#description)
    - [See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_terms_checklist_args/?output_format=md#see-also)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_terms_checklist_args/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_terms_checklist_args/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_terms_checklist_args/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_terms_checklist_args/?output_format=md#changelog)
 * [User Contributed Notes](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_terms_checklist_args/?output_format=md#user-contributed-notes)

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Filters the taxonomy terms checklist arguments.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_terms_checklist_args/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

### 󠀁[See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_terms_checklist_args/?output_format=md#see-also)󠁿

 * [wp_terms_checklist()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_terms_checklist/)

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_terms_checklist_args/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$args`array|string

An array or string of arguments.

`$post_id`int

The post ID.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_terms_checklist_args/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    $params = apply_filters( 'wp_terms_checklist_args', $args, $post_id );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-admin/includes/template.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/includes/template.php#L102)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/includes/template.php#L102-L102)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_terms_checklist_args/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [wp_terms_checklist()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_terms_checklist/)`wp-admin/includes/template.php` |

Outputs an unordered list of checkbox input elements labelled with term names.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_terms_checklist_args/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [3.4.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.4.0/) | Introduced. |

## 󠀁[User Contributed Notes](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_terms_checklist_args/?output_format=md#user-contributed-notes)󠁿

 1.  [Skip to note 2 content](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_terms_checklist_args/?output_format=md#comment-content-3076)
 2.   [Corey Salzano](https://profiles.wordpress.org/salzano/)  [  7 years ago  ](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_terms_checklist_args/#comment-3076)
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 4. This hook seems to have been obsoleted by WordPress 5.0.0. Using this hook to provide
    a custom [Walker](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/walker/) class
    has no effect on the output of a list of term checkboxes in the block editor.
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