[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #4015: Post and link category confusion

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#4015: Post and link category confusion
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 Reporter:  donncha             |        Owner:  ryan  
     Type:  defect              |       Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal              |    Milestone:  2.3   
Component:  Administration      |      Version:  2.2   
 Severity:  normal              |   Resolution:  fixed 
 Keywords:  developer-feedback  |  
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Comment (by karmadude):

 I just checked 2.3 Beta 1, and looks like link and post categories have
 been separated out again. For those who modified the code and have been
 using the same category for links and posts, upgrading to 2.3 might
 duplicate all your categories and break all the functionality which
 expects the categories to be same.


 This is going to be a lot harder than the previous version to have same
 categories for both links and posts because of the new taxonomy tables.
 But there is a little trick that might work: let's say we have a post
 category called video, if an extra entry is made to the term_taxonomy
 table for the video category, and set taxonomy to link_category, it might
 just work. I will have to try this out.


 The upgrade script will have to be modified to include this extra step,
 otherwise, it's going to wreck havoc!


 It's just lame when people conveniently drop obvious functionality for the
 sake of popularity. I mean come on, you added tags to posts, but no tags
 for links!! At least that would have provided the commonality some of us
 are looking for with categories.

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