[wp-hackers] "Dealing with people" taxonomies, users or links?!

Wed Aug 15 15:40:22 UTC 2012

Thank you,

Seems an interesting approach to set users as taxonomy as we can add some 
info on taxonomy description and also share between various post types 
abroad.

One point you made me figure out is the cross reference around the site, 
seems tricky but help content to keep related someway :)

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From: <zanematthew at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] "Dealing with people" taxonomies, users or links?!

>I use both, here's how.
>
> User -- Typical "wp user"
> Events -- Have a taxonomy called "attendees"
>
> When a User Attends an event the user login is copied as a taxonomy, so
> yes, each Attendee is basically a duplicate user name. If you navigate to
> my Schedule page: http://bmxraceevents.com/attendees/zanematthew.
>
> Doing it this way, does seem "hacky", but worked quickly for me and 
> allowed
> me to treat attendees as taxonomies, which at the time is what I wanted to
> do.
>
> Note Attendees don't manage the their Schedule from the wp admin, instead
> they can manage it once logged into the site.
>
> You may also be able just to store the event id (post id) in the
> wp_usermeta table with the user id.
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:00 AM, 
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>>    1. "Dealing with people" taxonomies, users or links?! (Diana K. C)
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>>       (Dwain Maralack)
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>> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:50:28 -0300
>> From: "Diana K. C" <dianakac at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [wp-hackers] "Dealing with people" taxonomies, users or
>>         links?!
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>> I have set custom content for manage events, conferecens, files etc
>> eveything working fine and neat, now I'm struggling with this:
>>
>> Events (post types) that need set speakers, while these speakears are
>> quite the same on regular basis. There is need for a mini curriculum with
>> picture and text, linked in site link etc
>>
>> Not really sure what can be done, so I'm considering this:
>>   a.. Set data as WP users, though I can't figure out how to link them to
>> a post (I suppose creating a metabox for retrieve users and keep them as 
>> a
>> metadata, but maybe this is wrong?)
>>   b.. "Taxonomies Extra Fields" (
>> http://en.bainternet.info/2012/wordpress-taxonomies-extra-fields-the-easy-way)
>> never tried this but seems suitable.
>>   c.. Maybe a misused approach but set a Link Category and keep people
>> there :) (not sure how could link the data to a post though)
>>
>> I would like to know how you are handling this data type in WP.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> dianakcury.com
>> about.me/dianakc
>>
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>> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:33:06 +0200
>> From: Dwain Maralack <dwain.maralack at gmail.com>
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>> Hi Diana
>>
>> Ideally you'd want to link the two data types in some way.
>>
>> The way I see it is that speakers will not need to add content to the
>> website or administrate it. Therefore creating a custom post type for the
>> speakers will be a better option as you'll be able to add ass much
>> information and fields to the speaker custom post type as you like.
>>
>> Then use the http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posts-to-posts/ plugin 
>> to
>> link the two CPT's.
>>
>> Some more information can be found here:
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3705882/linking-custom-post-types-in-wordpress
>>
>> Regards
>> Dwain
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Diana K. C <dianakac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I have set custom content for manage events, conferecens, files etc
>> > eveything working fine and neat, now I'm struggling with this:
>> >
>> > Events (post types) that need set speakers, while these speakears are
>> > quite the same on regular basis. There is need for a mini curriculum 
>> > with
>> > picture and text, linked in site link etc
>> >
>> > Not really sure what can be done, so I'm considering this:
>> >   a.. Set data as WP users, though I can't figure out how to link them 
>> > to
>> > a post (I suppose creating a metabox for retrieve users and keep them 
>> > as
>> a
>> > metadata, but maybe this is wrong?)
>> >   b.. "Taxonomies Extra Fields" (
>> >
>> http://en.bainternet.info/2012/wordpress-taxonomies-extra-fields-the-easy-way
>> )
>> > never tried this but seems suitable.
>> >   c.. Maybe a misused approach but set a Link Category and keep people
>> > there :) (not sure how could link the data to a post though)
>> >
>> > I would like to know how you are handling this data type in WP.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > dianakcury.com
>> > about.me/dianakc
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