[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #14513: Time for a wp_post_relationships table?

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#14513: Time for a wp_post_relationships table?
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 Reporter:  mikeschinkel     |        Owner:                
     Type:  feature request  |       Status:  reopened      
 Priority:  normal           |    Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Post Types       |      Version:  3.0.1         
 Severity:  normal           |   Resolution:                
 Keywords:                   |  
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Comment(by vteixeira):

 I just want to add some considerations:


 1- New proposed functions that would really get wordpress to the next
 level always face difficulties for getting into core.

 2- Instead of just adding one table to the database some people prefer to
 hack with the way taxonomies and post types work... not the best approach.

 3- Maybe it's time to think of Canonical plugins more seriously. If the
 functionality is not considered as a 'must have stuff' as Jane said, then
 this could be a canonical plugin, which could be implemented faster and
 without all the restrictions faced when something is trying to get into
 Core. And then developers could rely on that plugin and build custom
 functionality and other plugins on top of it.

 4- I really think that right now all this Custom Post Type and Custom
 Taxonomy stuff are incomplete. I'm building two sites right now with not
 so complicated architecture and I'm having a hard time to get it to work
 the way I want with custom post types and taxonomies. We don't have
 different types of columns on the database to store different types of
 data, everything is stored on a text column - come on this is not a real
 world cms usage, we should have columns for at list some different data
 types - text, integer, double, datetime.

 5- I also proposed some way to filter taxonomies by post types on the
 permalink structure (yes, it's not possible right now). See #14497 and
 #14502.

 6- another thing missing that I didn't see anybody talking about yet is
 taxonomy relationship. Imagine I have a taxonomy called Country, another
 called States and then Cities. There's no way to relate them so one can
 depend on another. Not advanced stuff.

 If wordpress is going on the CMS way, then it must be a complete and full
 featured cms without imposing restrictions to the site builder. People
 should not prefer wordpress over other cms just because of the better UI,
 but because of the features and flexibility also.


 Just my thoughts...

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