[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #36217: WP_Post_Type class

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#36217: WP_Post_Type class
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 Reporter:  swissspidy                           |       Owner:  swissspidy
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  4.6
Component:  Posts, Post Types                    |     Version:  2.9
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  dev-feedback has-patch needs-unit-   |     Focuses:
  tests                                          |
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Comment (by schlessera):

 > as I think that both posts and terms are a kind of content

 In my view, terms are "meta"content, something that qualifies the content
 itself. They don't serve any purpose in isolation, only when attached o
 real content.

 > like WP_Post_Type and WP_Taxonomy being derived from a WP_Content_Type
 for example

 Conceptually, a `WP_Post_Type` and a `WP_Taxonomy` share very little,
 other than that they both have an ID and a name, and that they are both
 stored in the same DB. You can attach one to the other (as you can attach
 a group to a user), but that does not make them descendents of a same
 parent. That's why most CMS systems opt to define these as `leafs` within
 the overarching CMS `tree`.

 I would think that calling `WP_Taxonomy` a type of `Content` will add to
 the confusion about what taxonomies even are and how they are used.

 > Also, the terminology of posts is widely established in the community
 and a change like that would probably lead to confusion as we cannot
 change it everywhere in the Core code (inconsistency).

 Yes, unfortunately, because this leads to the misconception of many people
 that WordPress is a blogging platform, and not much more.

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