[wp-hackers] Category/Tag/Taxonomy Meta Data

Andrew Nacin wp at andrewnacin.com
Tue Jun 1 05:12:40 UTC 2010


Of note, it's a really short plugin:

Make wrappers for the metadata API (four functions).
On activation, run dbDelta.
On uninstall, remove table (optional).

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Dion Hulse (dd32) <wordpress at dd32.id.au>wrote:

> At present there is no Term metadata available in Core WP. A number of
> plugins I've run accross store the metadata as a serialised string inside
> the Description element for the term, A few others create their own
> metadata
> table.
>
> There is a Trac ticket for adding Taxonomy Metadata:
> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10142
>
> On 1 June 2010 09:10, Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net> wrote:
>
> > On May 31, 2010, at 6:25 PM, Glenn Ansley wrote:
> > > The best solution would be a new table called wp_taxonomymeta ;)
> >
> >
> > On May 31, 2010, at 6:35 PM, The WordPress Web Warlock wrote:
> > > I'd say that the taxonomymeta which Glenn Ansley mentions, and
> > wp_object_relationships_meta would be really sweet tables too :)
> >
> > I fall back to the idea of deprecating wp_term_taxonomy and replacing
> with
> > wp_post->post_type="term_taxonomy."  That would provide term-meta as well
> as
> > other things, "for free." But I digress...
> >
> >
> > -Mike
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