[wp-hackers] Custom content question

[William Davis]

Anything wrong with using authors as presenters? Will they ever cross  
over from presenters to post authors? Name, bio, image, etc. and  
associated content is already handled by the authors function.

William P. Davis
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On Dec 13, 2010, at 9:05 PM, Bill Erickson wrote:

> It really depends how you conceptualize your content. In my mind, a  
> post is
> a unit of content, a post type is a type of content, and a taxonomy  
> is a
> logical grouping of posts.
>
> A presenter should be a post because it will have a full description  
> (post)
> and possibly more information (post meta). A presenter isn't simply a
> grouping of posts. An appropriate taxonomy for presentation might be  
> topic.
>
> I really think this is a feature that we should see in core, but  
> until then
> I think you should use plugins / custom code rather than hack it with
> taxonomies. You should have the ability to link two pieces of content
> (posts) without using a taxonomy.
>
> For a full discussion see: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14513
>
>
> ---
> Bill Erickson
> Wordpress Consultant
> http://www.billerickson.net
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Alexander Hempton-Smith <
> hempsworth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm with Eric on this, the natural way to do this is have the custom
>> post type (presentation) with a custom taxonomy (presenter). You get
>> so much functionality 'for free' when you use this simple built-in
>> method.
>>
>> -- Alex
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 13 Dec 2010, at 22:12, "Adam Polon" <adam at modernsignal.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am working on a relatively small site that will have  
>>> Presentations and
>>> Presenters (in addition to standard Posts and Pages).  On the
>> presentation
>>> screens, we want to list the related Presenters (and have them  
>>> link to
>> the
>>> Presenter detail page) and vice versa.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ideally, we would use Custom Post Types to achieve this (and that  
>>> seems
>> like
>>> what the WP community would suggest).  It seems like everything  
>>> has to be
>> a
>>> taxonomy to make that work instead of allowing me to just select the
>> related
>>> presenters on the Presentation admin screen.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there an easy way to set up WordPress to manage these Content  
>>> Types?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Presentations have:
>>>
>>> .         Title
>>>
>>> .         Date / Time
>>>
>>> .         Image(s)
>>>
>>> .         Description
>>>
>>> .         Registration URL
>>>
>>> .         Presenters (ideally a drop-down list)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Presenters have:
>>>
>>> .         Name
>>>
>>> .         Title
>>>
>>> .         Image(s)
>>>
>>> .         Bio
>>>
>>> .         Associated Presentations (ideally a drop-down list)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any help much appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>>
>>>
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