[wp-hackers] Creating Custom Taxonomies on the fly

[Haluk Karamete]

For the site I have in mind, 100's of cats, 1000's of posts... So
whatever it is got to scale up.

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Dion Hulse (dd32) <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:33:50 +1100, Haluk Karamete <halukkaramete at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Do you see some value in this approach? Or are there easier/smarter
>> ways to address the problem I'm trying to solve with less hassle?
>
> How many posts are we talking here?
>
> Whilst your proposed selection would work, it does sound like a lot of
> processing to ensure that the terms are kept in sync..
>
> My method would be:
> Generate tag cloud
>  - Are we on a category view?
>  - No: Generate as normal
>  - Yes: Filter the terms:
>   - We want Tags which are attached to <list of posts in category>
>
> You'd have to add some caching to that, and theres a good chance you'd have
> to filter some SQL there for best performance.
> I've done something similar (intersections of terms) for navigational
> elements of a custom taxonomy, ie. Site has multiple sections, and a set of
> navigational elements to drill down, In the drill down, you only want
> elements selectable which the section of the site has available
>
>
> Dion Hulse / dd32
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