Comments on: Custom taxonomies in WordPress 2.8

By: Nathan B

Nathan B — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:19:45 +0000

Sorry for probably missing something obvious, but what’s the key to getting the description to display for a term in the taxonomy? For a category the hard-coding is:


This is the text to describe category A

but what’s the equivalent for taxonomies? And for users of the Custom Taxonomies plugin, what’s the non-hard-coded way to get the descriptions you enter in the taxonomy edit panel to display?

By: Simon Bailey

Simon Bailey — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:37:32 +0000

Howdy Justin,

Great post mate, just wanted to pick your brains if you don’t mind. Soneone posted earlier about a need for event dates, and I have a specific need for a taxonomy related to this and I have no idea how to do it. Wondered if you could help.

It’s an events section where users can post a new event, where the event is going to be, a description, and when it is occuring.

My issue is the date.

I sorted the location with:

register_taxonomy( 'Location', 'events', array( 'hierarchical' => true, 'label' => __('Location') ) );

But I have no idea what to do for the date.

I want to ultimately display the day as a number and the first 3 letters of the month.

So event will be held on 7 FEB.

Is there a way I can set up 2 dropdowns, one for the day and one for the month, and set this as a taxonomy in the write panel for users?

I am quite new to this, hope you can help or possibly point me in the right direction.

Once again, cheers for a great post.

By: Cracks

Cracks — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:35:25 +0000

I’ve been using, and loving Custome Taxonomies since Justin published this post. But since upgrading to WP V2.9.1 the is_tax is causing grief (http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10721#comment:6).

And since CT’s are my primary navigation system, and I’m using if is_tax for custom page titles and descriptions, I’m a bit screwed.

Can anyone help?

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By: John

John — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:59:00 +0000

Hey. Ok, I found a sort-of solution using the “Simple Tags” plugin. It doesn’t let you move terms to a custom taxonomy but you can do a blanket search of all your posts and then add your terms to the taxonomy.

eg: install plugin > go to “mass edit terms” under the posts menu > select your custom taxonomy from the dropdown list at the top of the page > do a quick search > add your terms > click “update all.”

It’s not exactly ideal, I know, but it’ll get the job done until there’s an actual solution. Good luck /J

By: John

John — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:38:24 +0000

still waitin’ myself…

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:11:09 +0000

I’m intensely searching for the solution to moving taxonomies and the only thing I can come up with is to get into the database and edit the ‘wp_term_taxonomy’ table. It seems as simple as changing ‘post_tag’ to ‘people’ for example.

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:38:21 +0000

Is there an update on the ability to move taxonomy terms between groups. Seems like several people are looking to do this. I really want to start using custom taxonomies but it seems there are still too many unkowns.

By: David Abbott

David Abbott — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:02:59 +0000

Justin – thanks. Really useful.

One thing I’m struggling with is how to get a list of other posts with the same taxonomy term as the current post. No related post plugin does it without specifying what term you want the related posts to relate to.

The scenario: I have a custom term ‘Author’ for a site that collects articles by different writers. There are hundreds of authors so I wanted to avoid setting up author-users for each one so turned to taxonomies. When the viewer is looking at an article by a particular author I would like to be able to display a list of other articles by that author without navigating away from that page onto a taxonomy archive page.

Do you, or does anyone here, know if that is possible?

Thanks again for the clear guide you have provided