[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:  maybelater
 Keywords:                   |
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Changes (by tomauger):

 * cc: tomaugerdotcom@… (added)


Comment:

 Though I see the ticket is currently closed, I will leave my vote and my
 cc: here because I do believe that over the years we have seen a
 fundamental shift in the primary use cases of the WordPress platform - I
 have not build a WP-based site in the last six months that didn't leverage
 some kind of custom post type with additional field metadata: the platform
 has definitely moved from pure-play blogging to CMS.

 One does not have to look very far at all to find use cases for post-to-
 post relationships (think: products to product manufacturers, students to
 courses, participants to events, books to authors, reviews to products,
 etc. I'm not even trying here).

 I find Mike's recommendation for an intersection table compelling from a
 performance perspective, and I agree with the recommendation to make this
 fully supported in Core.

 In terms of the living and evolving entity that is WordPress, I believe
 that one needs to keep an eye on the horizon and realize that where
 content used to be king, these days it's the network or the relationship
 that has been getting all the attention. WordPress would do well to heed
 this trend and increase its ability to add richness to its content by
 creating more tightly-coupled relationships between its atomic elements.

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