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I would like to know if it's possible to add taxonomies in the user profile, without hacks.

So far I have been able to add taxonomies to custom post types and all, but now I would like to add it to the user profile.

I know how to add custom fields to the user profile, but so far failed on taxonomies.

The closest I got to find a solution was: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/applying-custom-taxonomies-to-user-profiles

As a newbie trying to find it there is a better solution.

Thank you for reading and helping out.

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The solution you linked seems about right but i can't tell if its scalable and won't crash on a large scale,

another solution would be to create a non public custom post type with no UI and to act as a "stub" post for each user and keep that post ID in a user meta table, that way you can:

  • make easier queries.
  • use other post features for users like: comments,tags,categories,custom taxonomies and all the functionality built for posts.
  • use post based plugins on a user profile like: voting, rating, ranking...

and i believe its a much better approach.

take a look at Mike's answer to a similar question to get you started.

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  • Thank you. I will give a go on your recommended solution. Will analyse the user meta table, so far only worked with the post meta table. I assume is more or less the same thing. Thank you Bainternet. – yeope Feb 27 '11 at 11:09
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You might want to read Justin Tadlock's post on the subject.

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In case someone is still looking for a similar solution, you can give a try to User Tags Plugin, It implements the Justin Tadlock's Post easy way.

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