[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 boonebgorges):

 Thanks for the thoughts, all.

 > If my taxonomy needs to store other data than its name, title and
 description, it's not a taxonomy. It's a post that should allow to be
 connected to another post.

 This is a bit arbitrary. Why should "description" be included? Answer:
 because it has always been included :) Core should provide enough tools to
 devs to let them build what they need to build in an elegant way. For
 posts, this means metadata, along with tons of UI (think about CPTs in the
 Dashboard) and lots of template-related logic (think about the template
 hierarchy and the way URL parsing works). For terms, we've traditionally
 had an extremely limited feature set, and the general dev consensus seems
 to be that they're a bit hamstrung by the lack of term metadata. Adding
 this feature won't turn terms into posts. It'll just make the dev toolbox
 more poweful.

 I've put a high-level outline of how I envision the implementation looking
 in core: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/09/04/taxonomy-term-
 metadata-proposal/ Feedback is welcome there. Once we have agreement on
 the high-level details, we can start the parallel projects of (a) deciding
 whether this is something we are sure we want, (b) working on patches, and
 (c) preparing outreach and documentation for plugin developers, especially
 those whose plugins will create critical conflicts with core termmeta. So
 get over there and leave your thoughts, if only a +1 :)

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