[wp-hackers] Time for a wp_post_relationships table?

scribu scribu at gmail.com
Tue Aug 3 20:14:06 UTC 2010


I think I'm going to make my Posts 2 Posts plugin use a glue taxonomy, as
described by Daniel Cameron and Otto.

It should prevent the scaling issues described by Mike Schinkel.


On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Lox <lox.dev at knc.nc> wrote:

> 2010/8/4 Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>:
> > But what exactly are you mirroring? The title of the post? Some of the
> > content? A custom field?
>
> Eg: I have my movies and actors custom post_types. To make the
> relation I _mirrors_ actors (title + short description) to a custom
> taxonomy actors_tax and then apply the right tax term(s) to each
> movie.
>

With the approach I'm envisioning, the only thing mirrored will be the post
id.


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