[wp-hackers] Community conventions for custom post types?

[onlyunusedname]

I mean, I take Lionel's point that a lot of the premium themes are "doing
it wrong" which kind of reduces my suggestion to: Let's all do it wrong in
the same way.

But often (this week in particular) I catch myself wishing for just this
sort of consensus.



On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 7:27 PM, onlyunusedname <onlyunusedname at gmail.com>wrote:

> I think all I really meant, Ade, was to extend the concept of Post Formats
> to common  Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies that I routinely see
> others implementing for CMSs.  Maybe it's not really necessary.
>
> Once upon a time (pre-3.1) if you wanted to do targeted styling for an
> "aside-like" post  and I wanted to do targeted styling for an "aside-like"
> post we would both probably implement that in a very similar but not
> interoperable way.  Which would probably be relatively easy to resolve.
>  But now we can just know that we are both just using the aside post format.
>
> Today, if I get two restaurant clients with two restaurant "Premium"
> themes, they very frequently will have two different sets of very, very
> similar but not interoperable custom post types and/or taxonomies and/or
> meta.  I just thought it would be nice if I could say that my
> restaurant-related theme or plugin was "Portable Menu Taxonomy Spec
> vX.X-compatible" (or what have you) it could add up to a big time save.
>
> I mean, if everyone building a restaurant CMS (or art gallery CMS or
> whatever common CMS implementation) knew where to go for the consensus spec
> and there were snippets for everyone to register everything in the same
> manner...  (And if you had a solution that was very uncommon, well this
> wouldn't pertain to you.)  Or would that just create more hassle than it
> eliminated?
>
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Ade Walker <photofantaisie at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 2012/8/3 onlyunusedname <onlyunusedname at gmail.com>
>>
>> > For example, if developer A implements a custom post type with custom
>> > taxonomies for menu items on a restaurant CMS, it would be great if
>> > developer B could take for granted the conventions developer A was
>> using.
>> >
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm curious too. Can you give an example or two of the kind of conventions
>> you are thinking of?
>>
>> Thanks.
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