Tag Bundles

  • Does the wordpress taxonomy support the concept of tag bungles? I am talking about the same concept that del.licio.us uses.

    Looking at the taxonomy it appears the hooks are there (parent, term_group) but I can’t find anyone that implemented anything or any documentation.

    If anyone has a lead, let me know. I am specifically trying to use the WordPress taxonomy to attach stock symbols to specific posts, then bundle the tickers by industry, or other variables. I would then need a function to list the tickers in one of these bundles.

    Pretty specialized, I know.

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    Grouping tags together is not quite there yet. Some support is in there as you’ve noticed, but it’s still unfinished.

    So far, there is support there for defining terms as aliases of other terms. The term_group is used to do this. But as yet, there’s no way to do anything else with the groups. You can’t query on them or get aliased tags. The two terms are still treated separately.

    Perhaps in a future WordPress version that support will be there.

    For now, you can use the “alias_of=term-slug” parameter in wp_insert_term() and wp_update_term() to define one term as the alias of another. But that’s it.

    The parent field is used for hierarchy, like in the categories. You could potentially use categories to do what you want that way, it does support parent categories pretty well.

    Is this something that can be done now with WP2.5?

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