Timeline for need advice on how to do a lists using custom post types - taxonomy vs postmeta
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| Jun 27, 2011 at 1:06 | history | edited | scribu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 26, 2011 at 23:16 | comment | added | byronyasgur | @scribu thanks for the offer sorry i missed that ..... actually i think what's been throwing me is a bit of a mixup between postmeta and meta boxes .... i think meta boxes will work out for me ....thanks for your help | |
| Jun 26, 2011 at 22:57 | vote | accept | byronyasgur | ||
| Jun 26, 2011 at 22:08 | comment | added | scribu | @byronyasgur let us continue this discussion in chat | |
| Jun 26, 2011 at 22:07 | comment | added | scribu | As long as you store list items in individual postmeta rows, you should be fine. You're on your own on the interface part, though. Shouldn't be too hard. | |
| Jun 26, 2011 at 21:39 | comment | added | byronyasgur | yes but i need to be able to create them in much the same way as one would create tags ..... are they suitable for that .... ie simply created and no limit to them | |
| Jun 26, 2011 at 21:11 | comment | added | scribu | Ah, I had assumed that your list items would be other posts, but I'm getting the impression that you just need them to be simple strings. In this case, I agree that menus are overkill and you should store the list items as custom fields. | |
| Jun 26, 2011 at 20:39 | comment | added | byronyasgur | they're just lists .... like a shopping list - or a list of videos in my collection ..... anything .... but there could be 100 items or more in a lists - sorry i cant see how or why i'd do it with menus | |
| Jun 26, 2011 at 20:30 | comment | added | scribu | "I will create eg menu #1, menu #2 and i will want to add menu items to these menus." How is it "completely different"? Anyway, you didn't describe what the lists are for. | |
| Jun 26, 2011 at 20:28 | comment | added | byronyasgur | not sure what your taliking about - how could i use custom menus for this - custom menus are for providing front end access to pages/posts etc --- what i want is completely different - i will have a custom post type "lists" and then i will create eg list#1, list#2 and i will want to add list items to these lists .... apologies if im wrong but i fail to see how custom menus could possibly help, thanks anyway though | |
| Jun 26, 2011 at 19:57 | history | answered | scribu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |