[wp-hackers] Question Regarding Taxonomy Terms per User

[Kai Jacobsen]

I don't see any real issues with this solution, except that it shouldn't 
become a practice with public projects / plugins / themes, imho.
So I thought I post my answer with some words of caution.

I've done something similar with post types for user specific blogs / 
contents without using multisite. But, and this is a possible 
implication, this can lead to some extra work to make things accessible 
to non-logged in users etc..

Depends on the usecase..

regards
>> Some way to do this is to suffix / prefix the custom taxonomy with some
>> user specif data upon registration
>>
>> global $current_user;
>> register_taxonomy( "genre_{$current_user->ID}", array( 'page' ), $args );
>>
>> this approach has some implications of course and you shouldn't use it if
>> none of them come to your mind :)
>>
> Nice.  That is at least a workable solution.  I don't see too much issue
> with that except there will be a bunch of taxonomies created ( 1/user )
> which I can hide from the UI in the backend.  This isn't a production site
> so unless there is an issue I am not seeing this will work.  I would be
> interested in hearing what your idea of the negative 'implications' might
> be.
>
> Ryan
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Kai Jacobsen <kai at ungestaltbar.de> wrote:
>
>> Some way to do this is to suffix / prefix the custom taxonomy with some
>> user specif data upon registration
>>
>> global $current_user;
>> register_taxonomy( "genre_{$current_user->ID}", array( 'page' ), $args );
>>
>> this approach has some implications of course and you shouldn't use it if
>> none of them come to your mind :)
>>
>>
>>   A quick question:
>>> One of my weekend projects is creating a Instapaper/Reader type app using
>>> WordPress.  It all works great for storing bookmarks but I am running into
>>> a bit of an issue if I want to scale this beyond a single user.  I
>>> currently have a Post Type of 'bookmark' and a custom tax for users to
>>> categorize these bookmarks as they see fit.  The issue is mainly that
>>> terms
>>> are defined on a global level and there is no way to have a term have an
>>> 'author' or to only be specified by user.  I could use a term meta plugin
>>> but that becomes an issue when trying to use the loop (WP_Query).  Does
>>> anyone have a good data architecture for something like this?
>>>
>>> In short....each user would have there own taxonomy terms for their
>>> specific bookmarks and only those would show up on a page.  I would need
>>> to
>>> get these terms without having to go through each term.
>>>
>>>
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