[wp-hackers] URL structure for web application with wp

Mike Schinkel mikeschinkel at newclarity.net
Sun Apr 18 07:38:58 UTC 2010


On Apr 18, 2010, at 3:34 AM, scribu wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Mike Schinkel
> <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>wrote:
> On Apr 17, 2010, at 5:31 PM, scribu wrote:
>>> To link posts to other posts, I would use a posts2posts table, instead of
>>> the taxonomy system: fewer tables => better performance, easier to
>>> maintain consistency.
>> 
>> But that unfortunately requires creating significant admin UI, doesn't it?
>> Linking posts through the taxonomy system means that at least most of the
>> plugin work can be done as backend code.
>> 
>> That said, every use case I look at has the need to related posts to other
>> posts so much so that I can't imagine it not being a valuable addition to
>> core. For example, to have a meta box that lets you related a post to posts
>> of another type. Anyone know if there are any trac tickets for this?
>> 
> 
> It could be made into a sturdy plugin before being added to core.

True...

-Mike


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