[wp-hackers] lots of category items

[Haluk Karamete]

Basically something that will make a difference like between the two images
I attach.
What's the most logical way to achieve this?



On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Haluk Karamete <halukkaramete at gmail.com>wrote:

> Let's say this is my cat tree. Though I separated them visually in this
> email, they all belong in to the same (built in category) taxonomy.
>
> -----------------------------
> media
> -----------------------------
> -->video         example url for this is: mysite.com/category/media/video
> -->audio
> -->text
> -->photo
> -->whatever
>
> -----------------------------
> collections
> -----------------------------
> -->tutorials   example url for this is:
> mysite.com/category/collections/tutorials/
> -->interviews
> -->debates
> -->whatever
>
> -----------------------------
> audience
> -----------------------------
> -->beginner  example url for this is:
> mysite.com/category/audience/beginner
> -->intermediate
> -->advanced
>
> -----------------------------
> topics
> -----------------------------
>
> -->culture
> ------>art
> ------>food
> ------>music
> ------>etc
>
> -->science
> ------>astronomy
> ------>computing
> ------>chemisty
> ------>etc
>
> -->sports
> ------>soccer
> ------>basketball
> ------>tennis
> ------>etc
>
> -->feature
> ------>main headline
> ------>worth a look
> ------>must see
> ------>flagship
> ------>etc
>
> With that in mind, here is the question.
>
> Because all this data is implemented within the same category taxonomy
> system, the corresponding drop down ( the category dropdown that is )
> getting extremely inconvenient to work with. This makes the new content
> entry process uneffective and not fun at the admin dashboard.
>
> An alternative to this is to use custom taxonomies. I could create 4-5
> custom taxonomies such as media, topics, audience, collections, and
> feature. As a result of this. I could get 5 or 6 different islands (
> dropboxes ) that are each easy to get to. The problem with that would
> manifest itself when I run queries that are tapping into those multiple
> taxonomies.
>
> Since I expect high traffic and lots of landing pages with a ton of loops,
> I do not want to go that route - just for the sake of getting individual
> boxes on the admin screen at content entry time.
>
> I do not want to cross multiple taxonomies when pulling posts.
>
> for example from media, get the videos AND intersect that with from
> audience the beginners stuff AND intersect that from collections with the
> tutorials that are featured as must see... that's too much! isn't it?
>
> When they all belonged in the same cat system, the query gets much
> faster/efficient. True?
>
> If so, then what's the solution?
>
> Well, I should be able to break that 100+ item category tree into multiple
> boxes that appears to the content entry person as if they were custom
> taxonomies but in reality they are not.
>
> How do I achieve that?
>
> some filter? some plug in? how do you go about it?
>
>
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