Sexy Wordpress admin filter for custom post types with custom taxonomies. Plug and play - no config necessary. Via [stackexchange] (http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/578/adding-a-taxonomy-filter-to-admin-list-for-a-custom-post-type)

admin-filter

function todo_restrict_manage_posts() {
    global $typenow;
    $args=array( 'public' => true, '_builtin' => false ); 
    $post_types = get_post_types($args);
    if ( in_array($typenow, $post_types) ) {
    $filters = get_object_taxonomies($typenow);
        foreach ($filters as $tax_slug) {
            $tax_obj = get_taxonomy($tax_slug);
            wp_dropdown_categories(array(
                'show_option_all' => __('Show All '.$tax_obj->label ),
                'taxonomy' => $tax_slug,
                'name' => $tax_obj->name,
                'orderby' => 'term_order',
                'selected' => $_GET[$tax_obj->query_var],
                'hierarchical' => $tax_obj->hierarchical,
                'show_count' => false,
                'hide_empty' => true
            ));
        }
    }
}
function todo_convert_restrict($query) {
    global $pagenow;
    global $typenow;
    if ($pagenow=='edit.php') {
        $filters = get_object_taxonomies($typenow);
        foreach ($filters as $tax_slug) {
            $var = &$query->query_vars[$tax_slug];
            if ( isset($var) ) {
                $term = get_term_by('id',$var,$tax_slug);
                $var = $term->slug;
            }
        }
    }
    return $query;
}
add_action( 'restrict_manage_posts', 'todo_restrict_manage_posts' );
add_filter('parse_query','todo_convert_restrict');