[wp-hackers] Custom content question

[Bill Erickson]

It really depends how you conceptualize your content. In my mind, a post is
a unit of content, a post type is a type of content, and a taxonomy is a
logical grouping of posts.

A presenter should be a post because it will have a full description (post)
and possibly more information (post meta). A presenter isn't simply a
grouping of posts. An appropriate taxonomy for presentation might be topic.

I really think this is a feature that we should see in core, but until then
I think you should use plugins / custom code rather than hack it with
taxonomies. You should have the ability to link two pieces of content
(posts) without using a taxonomy.

For a full discussion see: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14513


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Bill Erickson
Wordpress Consultant
http://www.billerickson.net


On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Alexander Hempton-Smith <
hempsworth at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm with Eric on this, the natural way to do this is have the custom
> post type (presentation) with a custom taxonomy (presenter). You get
> so much functionality 'for free' when you use this simple built-in
> method.
>
> -- Alex
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 13 Dec 2010, at 22:12, "Adam Polon" <adam at modernsignal.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> >
> >
> > I am working on a relatively small site that will have Presentations and
> > Presenters (in addition to standard Posts and Pages).  On the
> presentation
> > screens, we want to list the related Presenters (and have them link to
> the
> > Presenter detail page) and vice versa.
> >
> >
> >
> > Ideally, we would use Custom Post Types to achieve this (and that seems
> like
> > what the WP community would suggest).  It seems like everything has to be
> a
> > taxonomy to make that work instead of allowing me to just select the
> related
> > presenters on the Presentation admin screen.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there an easy way to set up WordPress to manage these Content Types?
> >
> >
> >
> > Presentations have:
> >
> > .         Title
> >
> > .         Date / Time
> >
> > .         Image(s)
> >
> > .         Description
> >
> > .         Registration URL
> >
> > .         Presenters (ideally a drop-down list)
> >
> >
> >
> > Presenters have:
> >
> > .         Name
> >
> > .         Title
> >
> > .         Image(s)
> >
> > .         Bio
> >
> > .         Associated Presentations (ideally a drop-down list)
> >
> >
> >
> > Any help much appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Adam
> >
> >
> >
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