[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10142: Add metadata support for taxonomies

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#10142: Add metadata support for taxonomies
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 Reporter:  sirzooro                             |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request                      |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:
Component:  Taxonomy                             |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:  maybelater
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing 2nd-opinion  |
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Changes (by sil.linguist):

 * cc: sil.linguist (added)


Comment:

 Someone above mentioned that it is highly unlikely that a single taxonomy
 will have more than 1000 terms. I have a use case where I have a taxonomy
 with over 7000 terms. And these terms do have meta as well. In a way the
 post-to-post relationships makes sense for taxonomies this large and
 detailed. [1] Has anyone on the list here attempted a typology of use
 caes? Would such a discussion possibly bring us to a point where consensus
 could be achieved?

 Not mentioned yet in the discussion, is the ability to turn any CPT into a
 taxonomy. If we go the route that taxonomies need to be just as flexible
 as CPTs (with respect to meta) then why does core support taxonomies as a
 separate object type? Just add to core the ability to make a CPT function
 as a taxonomies would have functioned. There is a plugin which sorta does
 this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cpt-onomies/

 BTW: I deal with language and linguistic data.

 [1] http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posts-to-posts/

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