[wp-hackers] Taxonomy Schema Proposal

[Jamie Talbot]

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Matt Mullenweg wrote:
> Ryan Boren wrote:
>> "taxonomy" is a string that can be 'post-category', 'link-category',
>> or 'post-tag'.  Plugins can add their own taxonomy types.
> 
> How are URLs handled in this system?

We'll still have the category base and tag base, right?  In which case, won't they just work as they
do now?  anything site.tld/category/my_term/ would be queried as a post_category, anything
site.tld/tag/my_term/ would be queried as a post_tag.  At least, that's how I understood Ryan's
suggestion.

> Is the mapping of object_id to either post_id or link_id based on the
> taxonomy type?

It would be cool if it was loosely coupled enough that we could map a term to whatever object in
whatever taxonomy we wanted.  You'd probably say that the core functions would always add
link_category terms to links and post_category terms to posts, but we don't have to enforce this on
plugins.  That way, a plugin could add my_future_taxonomy which was applicable to posts, pages,
links and attachments (or any combination of those).  If a plugin has a good reason to add a
post_category term to a link, or a link_category to an attachment (though I'm not saying I can think
of one), then it should be allowed to.

Cheers,

Jamie.
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