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

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#10142: Add metadata support for taxonomy terms
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 Reporter:  sirzooro         |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Taxonomy         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch      |     Focuses:
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Comment (by marsjaninzmarsa):

 Replying to [comment:127 flixos90]:
 > Okay granted, that's not the best solution either. In that case I would
 rather have a `post_relationships` table being introduced, but that's
 probably a little too much off-topic here.

 Probably. :)

 > > > > > significantly reduce performance on term queries
 > > > >
 > > > > Only if you opt-in this taxonomy to support metadata?
 > > >
 > > > I don't think opt-in for term meta is a good idea ("Decisions, not
 Options"). Moreover, there is no opt-in for post and user meta, so why
 would we do it for terms? I'd rather have a decision being made over the
 next weeks/months.
 > >
 > > Yes, there is opt-in for post meta:
 https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type#supports
 >
 > Isn't that just for the ability to manually add custom fields? It
 basically is post meta, but you can always use the underlying CRUD
 functions for post meta even if that support is not enabled.

 Hmm, dunno, I must check it out...
 And you don't have `add_taxonomy_support()` function, so it cannot be
 moved 1:1 anyway. Performance when querying Taxes is indeed important
 thing, so we must ensure that taxmeta doesn't cause drop of speed for most
 of users not using it. I think that they just shouldn't been querying by
 default, and another `if` statement checking for optional `meta_query`
 param or so shouldn't impact performance at all.

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