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

[Charles Frees-Melvin]

I think you are running into a complexity/limitation of WordPress.  
That a taxonomy cannot have meta.

For example I've been using Wordpress for my photo album. And have  
been running into the issue that I cannot have a link meta to say that  
ID 55 of the people tax is user 14. Or I cannot link a thumbnail to a  
category or tag or tax. I think that this would be the next move to  
make your project simpler.

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Charles E. Frees-Melvin
charles at cefm.ca
www.cefm.ca
506-640-1007

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On 2010-04-17, at 16:10, Christian Foster <christian.foster at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This has been driving me mad for a couple of days now and I was hoping
> for some suggestions or ideas. Apologies for the long question but I
> am really looking for the best possible (and most Wordpress-like) way
> to set this up.
>
> I'm building a basic project management system. This is the setup:
>
> Custom post types: Project, Milestone, Task, Message
> Taxonomies: Projects, Task List, Message Categories
>
> Obviously this app needs to be project-centric - so whatever post,
> archive or taxonomy we're viewing generally it should relate to a
> project. So - all post types are linked to a project via a term in the
> projects taxonomy that has the same name as 1 project.
>
> Example: Project 1 (post type project) is linked to term "Project 1"
> from the projects taxonomy. Message 1...Message 10 are also linked via
> term "Project 1" in Projects taxonomy.
>
> Therefore when viewing any individual post, we can check the term
> they're linked to in the "Projects" taxonomy and find out which
> project we are talking about. But, when viewing an archive we have no
> way to reference which project is being referenced unless we put
> something in the URL (or set a session variable which I also played
> with).
>
> Basecamp uses this style:
>
> /projects/id/ - project single
> /projects/id/messages/ - messages archive
> /projects/id/messages/id - message single
>
> Wordpress is using
> /project/id - project single
> /projects/term - archive for all posts with project term
> /message/id - message single (we check project term to get which
> project it's linked to)
>
> So - what do people think the best way of structuring the app might
> be? Here are what I see as the options at the moment:
>
> 1. Create pages as so
> /projects/project-id
> /projects/messages/project-id
> /projects/tasks/project-id
>
> Create custom rewrite rules, stick a project id on the end of the url
> on all of the above and then do custom page templates to look up and
> display the correct posts. Or some variation of URL rewriting and
> pages with custom templates.
>
> 2. Try to achieve functionality like categories where project is a
> category and we can link all post types into it and get the same style
> of paths:
> /projects/project-slug/task-name
> /projects/project-slug/message-name
> /projects/project-slug/project-name
>
> Wordpress is rewriting all custom post types as /post-type/slug at the
> moment, so I am not sure if this is achievable.
>
> 3. Some other solution using sessions to set the current project and
> then relating all queries to that project.
>
> Having written all of that I guess any of those options would do, I'm
> just not quite able to get a neat and tidy solution out though - any
> ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Chris.
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