Allow Events to Use Posts Categories

  • Resolved Known Universe

    (@nonuniverse)


    2 years, 4 months ago

    Hello,

    I have a plugin that automatically creates WordPress POST categories when a group is created on my site. The category is the group slug. All my post content revolves around the group entities on my site. I would like my calendar EVENT Posts to use those same categories so that I don’t have to duplicate the categories or worry that they might be out of sync.

    Is this possible? Although the EVENTS posts have categories, I do not use them and none exist at this time. So I do not need to do any merging of any type.

    I’ve avoided using custom post types, although they would be useful, because I want all post types to share the ONE SET of WordPress POST categories. I currently use TAGS to differentiate between content types (blog, document, video, etc.). It would have been nice to have different custom post types so that I could ensure that posting these types of content would show up in group news feeds. This isn’t possible right now.

    I’m new to PODS and the documentation I’ve read so far on relationships doesn’t make sense to me as I don’t know how to apply the relationships to EXISTING Post Types.

    Also, a side question. If I deactivate or delete the PODS plugin, will the relationships break? I have a staging site where different developers pop in and out for troubleshooting situations. I need the relationships to continue.

    Best Regards
    NoN Universe

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  • Plugin Author Jory Hogeveen

    (@keraweb)

    Hi @nonuniverse

    Relationships are vastly different from taxonomies.
    You can attach both to multiple CPT if you want.

    Relationships > Metadata
    This is handled by custom Pods fields.
    The relational information is stored as metadata.

    Taxonomies > Terms
    This is handled by WP Core.
    The relational data is stored as term links.

    If you disable Pods then the UI will disappear and the Pods templates (if used) won’t work anymore.
    The metadata and term links in the database persists though and will continue to work.

    Cheers, Jory

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