I'm new to Wordpress and have been tasked to migrate an existing non-Wordpress site to Wordpress.
Our original site has each page associated to a country. I've been reading a lot and I believe I need to create a custom post type ("Country Pages") and a custom taxonomy ("Country").
The problem I have is with updating countries in the long term (ex. "China" to be renamed to "Republic of China").
With custom PHP sites, I would have a separate country "meta" table with the ff. columns:
- country_id
- country_name
- country_description
and associate each page to a country_id. Updating the country_name will only be done in one row of the table and the pages will automatically have the updated country_name.
With Wordpress however, since taxonomy values (country_names) are directly specified in the meta box and not taxonomy ids (country_id), would I be forced to update all pages when I need to update the taxonomy value? Can a taxonomy be structured similar to a table and not just as a single value?
Feel free to edit my question since I'm not too familiar with Wordpress terminologies. Thanks
