[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #37915: Customize: allow terms to be created in nav menus

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#37915: Customize: allow terms to be created in nav menus
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 Reporter:  celloexpressions         |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  4.7
Component:  Customize                |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch 2nd-opinion  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by celloexpressions):

 If we do go with a shadow taxonomy in 4.7, one benefit is that we'll only
 need to do it for ''new'' terms added in menus, which would reduce the
 volume of drafted terms, at least. However, we'd have to register a
 `_draft_` taxonomy for every `show_in_nav_menus` taxonomy, which could be
 a lot of taxonomies. The alternative is to create one draft taxonomy for
 each and store the actual taxonomy somewhere with each term, but that
 could also get messy.

 It's sounding like we will need some sort of `term_status` approach
 eventually, as that will (likely?) create less breakage than using shadow
 taxonomies for every taxonomy when we scale to allowing any term and its
 meta to be previewed in the customizer. If we're okay with going that
 route, we could look at an implementation here for 4.7 and save #37914 for
 a future release and broader exploration of `term_status`.

 https://github.com/xwp/wp-customize-terms could probably piggyback on the
 nav menus approach for now, with plugins not being able to hook in as
 described above.

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