[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:  closed 
 Priority:  normal           |    Milestone:         
Component:  Post Types       |      Version:  3.0.1  
 Severity:  normal           |   Resolution:  wontfix
 Keywords:                   |  
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Comment(by Denis-de-Bernardy):

 Replying to [comment:37 westi]:
 > Sometimes you will need more than core to develop a complex site - we
 are not trying to solve 100% of use cases only the more significant ~80%.
 The other 20% is where plugins sit in the eco-system so that you can make
 it your WordPress

 Best I'm aware, situations where node2node relationships are desirable
 include the vast majority of non-trivial/real-life business applications.
 The keyword here is business: people who pay to get a website that is of
 any use to them, as opposed to a corporate blog for PR purposes.

 Even if you stick to a web content publishing workflow, one can think of
 use cases:

  - a post occasionally ought to have several authors
  - a tag or category ought to have multiple parents and children (social
 psychology belongs in psychology and in sociology, and perhaps in
 philosophy as well)
  - a post comparing products, movies etc ought to be related to several
 products, movies etc - each posts in their own right
  - a product, movie etc could have multiple reviews and comparisons

 One of the more compelling examples Mike gave, IMO, was the one for the
 law firm. The little I've worked in that field would have had me laugh at
 the idea of using WP. You ''can'' bend reality to make things fit in
 taxonomies and meta tables, in order to fit real life situations into an
 arbitrary schema. But for such a setup you quickly end up ditching WP
 altogether, in favor of Drupal (barely better) or a php framework.

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