[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 2nd-opinion  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by thomask):

 Thank you for such detailed reply and it is great it was considered (even
 if you've realised, that it is not the right solution - i believe you are
 much higher experts then me). I can live with all the solutions, if they
 will allow also post2post relations etc.

 So please at least consider unify all the relevant functions for
 administration, e.g. displaying term/post detail, term/post table for list
 pages, same function for widgets to both posts/terms etc. So that both the
 current term related functions and and post related functions would be
 just aliases to that global functions just with defined type.

 I believe it would save a lot of energy to future development of WP and
 for web and plugins authors. If you look at it, praticaly the only
 difference between post list tables and term list tables is that the terms
 got "quick edit" on the side and posts got it inline, but this could (and
 should) be easily merged to one behaviour, so that users will not have to
 use different approaches for similar tasks. BTW here IMO the best would be
 folding (right) side quick edit, that would have all the advantages from
 both posts and terms - space for another columns, possibility to use it
 for new quick post ... and also advatage that it could contain the same
 type of widgets as detail (just they will be in one narrow column).

 And the same for the term/post detail, where again the ability to define
 all the possible extra metaboxes with the same functions would be huge
 improvement.

 And it could be also adopted for attachment details popup, where is also
 the right column with postdata, metas and termdata but now again with
 completely different approach then for any other type of content. And left
 part for attachments is just another view of the list table (similar as in
 eshops - show as table / show as thumbnails) and conversely this optional
 thumbnail view might be interesting feature also for posts and terms
 tables.


 And this would be also future-proof and plugin-proof, if there would be
 any need to create another 3 tables with "post"-data, metadata and
 relations, than it would mean just another type definition, so that the
 tables would know what fields are available in the "post" table.

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