[wp-hackers] CPT and Taxonomy (on Otto's advice)

Otto otto at ottodestruct.com
Fri Aug 10 14:33:22 UTC 2012


On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Diana K. C <dianakac at gmail.com> wrote:
> Otto' advice was in time and very helpful then I felt like asking about
> using CPT and custom taxonomy in this case :)
>
> Conferences (the CPT)
> Years (the taxonomy)

Years should probably be postmeta, not a taxonomy. Why? Because you
probably want to sort/order by years at some point.

Anything that is "data" about the post should be meta. Anything that
is a "grouping" of several posts should be a taxonomy.

-Otto


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