[wp-hackers] Single Category Store across Sites on Multisite?

[Dan Smart]

I have grappled with that issue precisely for a current project. I was informed that global terms was not properly implemented and was in effect deprecated.

I ended up implementing replication of categories across the sites on category save/delete, which would be a horribly slow operation with more than about 10 sites, but which was an acceptable compromise for this project.

MU Sitewide tags doesn't really address this issue, though people suggest it as an option. You have to use it's entire multiblog post thing too, whereas I was applying a category to a single-sited custom post type.

It seems like a good thing to have as part of core, I didn't want to go down the road of modifying core of course.

Dan Smart - Web Developer
www.dansmart.co.uk

On 11 Jan 2011, at 17:12, Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net> wrote:

> This question got me thinking about if it is possible (practical?) to have a single category store across sites on multisite?  
> 
> http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/6722/can-you-have-a-single-set-of-canonical-categories-shared-by-all-blogs
> 
> The more I think of it the more it seems like it just wouldn't be viable.  Anyone have alternate experience?
> 
> -Mike
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