[wp-hackers] URL structure for web application with wp

[Christian Foster]

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/taxonomy-metadata/

This looks like it is done in a pretty clean way, I think I will try it out.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Charles Frees-Melvin <charles at cefm.ca> wrote:
> I think you are running into a complexity/limitation of WordPress. That a
> taxonomy cannot have meta.
>
> For example I've been using Wordpress for my photo album. And have been
> running into the issue that I cannot have a link meta to say that ID 55 of
> the people tax is user 14. Or I cannot link a thumbnail to a category or tag
> or tax. I think that this would be the next move to make your project
> simpler.
>
> --
> Charles E. Frees-Melvin
> charles at cefm.ca
> www.cefm.ca
> 506-640-1007
>
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>
> On 2010-04-17, at 16:10, Christian Foster <christian.foster at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This has been driving me mad for a couple of days now and I was hoping
>> for some suggestions or ideas. Apologies for the long question but I
>> am really looking for the best possible (and most Wordpress-like) way
>> to set this up.
>>
>> I'm building a basic project management system. This is the setup:
>>
>> Custom post types: Project, Milestone, Task, Message
>> Taxonomies: Projects, Task List, Message Categories
>>
>> Obviously this app needs to be project-centric - so whatever post,
>> archive or taxonomy we're viewing generally it should relate to a
>> project. So - all post types are linked to a project via a term in the
>> projects taxonomy that has the same name as 1 project.
>>
>> Example: Project 1 (post type project) is linked to term "Project 1"
>> from the projects taxonomy. Message 1...Message 10 are also linked via
>> term "Project 1" in Projects taxonomy.
>>
>> Therefore when viewing any individual post, we can check the term
>> they're linked to in the "Projects" taxonomy and find out which
>> project we are talking about. But, when viewing an archive we have no
>> way to reference which project is being referenced unless we put
>> something in the URL (or set a session variable which I also played
>> with).
>>
>> Basecamp uses this style:
>>
>> /projects/id/ - project single
>> /projects/id/messages/ - messages archive
>> /projects/id/messages/id - message single
>>
>> Wordpress is using
>> /project/id - project single
>> /projects/term - archive for all posts with project term
>> /message/id - message single (we check project term to get which
>> project it's linked to)
>>
>> So - what do people think the best way of structuring the app might
>> be? Here are what I see as the options at the moment:
>>
>> 1. Create pages as so
>> /projects/project-id
>> /projects/messages/project-id
>> /projects/tasks/project-id
>>
>> Create custom rewrite rules, stick a project id on the end of the url
>> on all of the above and then do custom page templates to look up and
>> display the correct posts. Or some variation of URL rewriting and
>> pages with custom templates.
>>
>> 2. Try to achieve functionality like categories where project is a
>> category and we can link all post types into it and get the same style
>> of paths:
>> /projects/project-slug/task-name
>> /projects/project-slug/message-name
>> /projects/project-slug/project-name
>>
>> Wordpress is rewriting all custom post types as /post-type/slug at the
>> moment, so I am not sure if this is achievable.
>>
>> 3. Some other solution using sessions to set the current project and
>> then relating all queries to that project.
>>
>> Having written all of that I guess any of those options would do, I'm
>> just not quite able to get a neat and tidy solution out though - any
>> ideas would be appreciated.
>>
>> Chris.
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