[wp-hackers] automatic taxonomy update after add a new custom post type

scribu mail at scribu.net
Mon Oct 25 03:31:45 UTC 2010


On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Jimmy Roy <jimmy.roy at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi guys,
>
> I work on a new project and in this project I have 3 custom post types:
>
>   - book
>   - translator automatically
>   - editor
>
> until now everything is easy.
>
> now it's more complicated, a book is edited by an editor and translated by
> a
> translator so when I add a new book I would like to select translator and
> editor in a custom taxonomy (taxo-translator and taxo-editor).
>
> these 2 custom taxonomies are filled when I add a new translator (custom
> post type) and a new editor (custom post type)... actually it's what I want
> to do... but is it possible and how to do that?
>
> an action hook after the creation of the custom post type ? how to get name
> and id?
>
> I'm not sure if I can do it easily with WP...
>

I think you should try the Posts 2 Posts plugin, instead of trying to map a
post to a taxonomy term:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posts-to-posts/


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