[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #3723: Tagging

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#3723: Tagging
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 Reporter:  ryan         |        Owner:  ryan
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  new 
 Priority:  normal       |    Milestone:  2.2 
Component:  General      |      Version:  2.1 
 Severity:  normal       |   Resolution:      
 Keywords:  tags         |  
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Comment (by ryan):

 Having a single table for taxonomoy is nice for slurping all taxonomy for
 a post in one go.  In many applications the differences between a tag and
 a category don't matter.  They are both taxonomical meta-data.  The global
 tag pools on wordpress.com won't care between the two, for example.
 Categories are already being used as tags there.  Technorati et al won't
 care either.  The global taxonomy approach does make keeping
 Manage->Categories straight more difficult, however.  I would love to
 simply axe Manage->Categories and do everything on the fly via the edit
 post and edit link pages, but I can imagine the revolt.  ;-)  Perhaps we
 could add a type bitfield to the categories table so that we can avoid
 some of the gymnastics with the counts.  If a category object is marked as
 a category in the type field, it would be displayed in the manage cats
 list.  If a category belongs to no posts or links, it would still be
 listed until it is deleted via Manage Cats.  Deleting would consist of
 masking out the category bits in the type bitfield or completely deleting
 if the bitfield is empty.  Either consulting or ignoring the type bitfield
 would yield a separated or merged taxonomy, as desired.

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