[wp-hackers] Best approach

[Paul Menard]

A few months ago I wrote a plugin, Pages-Children. I originally wrote this for just Pages. But it was quickly extended for other similar post types. Then also taxonomies witch are hierarchical.

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On Sep 27, 2011, at 10:43 PM, "Diana K. Cury" <dianakac at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your reply,
> 
> I still can't find a way to populate the taxonomies assigning the parent, I thinks there´s no way to do so.
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Clarke" <jer at simianuprising.com>
> To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Best approach
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> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Diana K. Cury <dianakac at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 
>> I'm think taxonomies should do, but is ok to add soo much items like
>> cities? Is there limit?!
>> 
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> There's no technical limit but there are usability issues that come up with
> hierarchical (category-style) taxonomies if you have too many terms in them.
> Specifically the category selection box is really intended for 2-100 or so
> terms, more than that and it is no longer a good interface to deal with such
> a long list. If the terms are actually in a complex hierarchy more than 2
> levels deep it gets even worse because it's almost impossible to visualize
> the hierarchy in that tiny box. I've also found (in having categories hold
> world regions then countries inside them) that trying to display complex
> taxonomy hierarchies on the frontend can be a big hassle and definitely
> requires reworking the standard taxonomy display functions because e.g. you
> don't want a list of all terms sorted alphabetically if some of them are
> cities and some of them are countries, you want to show the hierarchy
> somehow.
> 
> That said, any situation where you want to functionally relate
> countries/states/cities together is going to be very complicated, so putting
> the work into a hierarchical taxonomy solution is probably your best bet.
> 
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>> I found quite easy to populate the terms using insert_terms, but there is
>> someway to insert taxonomies within a prent one?!
>> 
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> When you insert terms you can add the 'parent' field with the term_id of the
> parent you want to set. Look at the function to see how that's possible, I
> may have the detail wrong but that's the essence.
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