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

scribu scribu at gmail.com
Sun Apr 18 07:34:56 UTC 2010


On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Mike Schinkel
<mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>wrote:

> On Apr 17, 2010, at 5:31 PM, scribu wrote:
> > To link posts to other posts, I would use a posts2posts table, instead of
> > the taxonomy system: fewer tables => better performance, easier to
> maintain
> > consistency.
>
> But that unfortunately requires creating significant admin UI, doesn't it?
>  Linking posts through the taxonomy system means that at least most of the
> plugin work can be done as backend code.
>
> That said, every use case I look at has the need to related posts to other
> posts so much so that I can't imagine it not being a valuable addition to
> core. For example, to have a meta box that lets you related a post to posts
> of another type. Anyone know if there are any trac tickets for this?
>

It could be made into a sturdy plugin before being added to core.


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