[wp-hackers] Adding meta data to categories

[Brian Krausz]

Sorry for the late reply Dan, been really busy.  Glad you found you
solution, but for the sake of completeness I'll throw in the potential use
of my plugin:

Right now i have hardcoded object types to just Post, Page, and Link.  You
could also add in category, which then just defines a new object type, and
the object_id would refer to a category_id.  You would have to write your
own interface to the category admin pages, but after that you could have
taxonomies for categories.  Seems a little complicated and the "custom
fields" paradigm seems to fit much better for your needs, but it's an
interesting concept that I might add in to my plugin when bored/less busy.
Thanks for the idea!

--Brian

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:02 PM, dan.f <dan at eliresearch.com> wrote:

>
> I too have been trying to solve this issue.  Brian - I've
> installed/uninstalled your plugin 3 times thinking it would be the
> solution,
> but I still dont know if it is :(  From what I can gather, you can create
> new terms, but can't associate them with categories, just
> posts/pages/links.
>
> What I would like is a table similar to wp_postmeta, but wp_categorymeta,
> with 4 columns:
> id, catid, key, value
>
> Then have an interface on the categories page to add multiple meta
> key/values to each category, and some functions to retrieve these values as
> an array for use in the theme.
>
> The headspace2 plugin by urbangiraffe is close on this regard, but they
> just
> have a single input box and its just values defined for each category that
> get used for meta keyword tag, not key/value settings.
>
> But, that plugin does modify the 'edit category' page to create the
> interface, so that appears to be possibly to hook into.
>
> Brian, can custax do this?  If there is nothing out there like this, then I
> will probably end up doing.  Doesn't seem too complicated...
>
>
> Mike Schinkel-5 wrote:
> >
> > "Brian Krausz" <brian at nerdlife.net> wrote:
> >> my plugin abstracts that API into a GUI,
> >> may help with what you're
> >> trying to do.
> >> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-taxonomies/
> >
> > This looks really interesting and may be exactly what I need for several
> > different potential use cases but after installing it it is not clear how
> > someone would actually apply it's functionality.  It seems to compete
> with
> > tags and categories, but I don't see how they relate.
> >
> > Do you have a blog post anywhere explaining how you've used it?
> >
> > -Mike Schinkel
> > http://mikeschinkel.com/
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