[wp-hackers] WP 2.8 "Enhanced support for custom taxonomies"

[Austin Matzko]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Davit Barbakadze<jayarjo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know what the subject ("Enhanced support for custom taxonomies")
> means in WP 2.8? I found it on "WP 2.8 What's New" list. Is a custom
> taxonomy still strictly binded to a particular object type? I mean until now
> one had to create separate taxonomies for links and for posts, etc, even if
> they semantically belonged to the same one, let's say posts about music and
> links to music resources, or something like that. Is it still true? And what
> is meant under that "Enhanced support for custom taxonomies" after all?

"Enhanced support" means mainly that you can add taxonomies from the
admin, and the default taxonomies are now defined at init.  Nothing
major in the back-end functionality has changed.