[wp-hackers] Question Regarding Taxonomy Terms per User

[Matthias Breuer]

We use this solution for custom post types and taxonomies on a larger scale WordPress project and I have yet to find any downsides. In our special case the users never get to see other users content so we simply register the taxonomy bound to the current user id on init. I can image that if the content was public to anybody registering a few hundred taxonomies and post types on init could create problems.


Am 02.04.2013 um 23:18 schrieb Kai Jacobsen <kai at ungestaltbar.de>:

> 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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