Make WordPress Core

Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #10142, comment 129


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09/04/2015 01:47:23 PM (10 years ago)
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  • Ticket #10142, comment 129

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    11I agree that a general object-to-object table would be extremely helpful, but those relationships will still need metadata and taxonomy-terms are the best way to accomplish this today without completely reinventing something new, which is not any less likely to have it's own issues ten years from today.
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    3 I think the Posts-to-Posts plugin is pure genius and find it incredibly useful, but it's ambitious for WordPress core adoption when nothing in the Posts/Pages/Categories/Tags/Menus/Users objects needs it.
     3The Posts-to-Posts plugin is pure genius and I find it incredibly useful, but it's ambitious for WordPress core adoption when nothing in the Posts/Pages/Categories/Tags/Menus/Users objects needs it. A taxonomy term metadata table would be an absolutely huge improvement for all WordPress installations, and could be used in core later as taxonomy-terms become increasingly descriptive.
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    5 A taxonomy term metadata table would be an absolutely huge improvement for all WordPress installations.
     5A few of my anecdotal experiences and opinions:
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    77* A performance compromise was made in bbPress 2.x's because of a lack of term metadata to keep counts of both topics & replies in a "Forum" post type vs. a taxonomy & terms.