[Plugin: Custom Content Type Manager] Feature Request: Links

  • emmdub

    (@emmdub)


    12 years, 1 month ago

    First off, thanks for CCTM, definitely one of the most useful plugins for wp (:

    I would love to have the ability to deal with links, in one of two ways:

    1. Links Custom Field: Provide fields for entering the url and link description, optionally title and target as well.

    2. Relation Custom Field: Add Links from the wp links library as an available post-type for Relations.

    Thanks!

    m.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-content-type-manager/

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  • Plugin Contributor fireproofsocks

    (@fireproofsocks)

    12 years, 1 month ago

    The links field would be a great feature request: http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-custom-content-type-manager/issues/

    You cannot however, tie links into the other relation fields: that’s because of how WordPress is built. Whereas posts, pages, images, etc. all store data in the wp_posts table, the links in the blogroll are stored in a completely different table (wp_links), so they represent a completely different data type. So you don’t get any of the nice features from having data stored as a post (e.g. taxonomy, search features, linking, relations, etc). It’s really a bummer — evidence (in my opinion) of WordPress’ immature architecture.

    I think one solution to this problem might be to do what other CMS’s do: store link data as a real post-type. It would require a custom field type to store that data, and that would allow you to present multiple fields for each link (like you said: url, description, title, target, etc), AND since it would be stored as a post, you could tie into the regular search features, taxonomies, etc.

    It’s all doable, I just need a project to jumpstart it. This is probably one of the features I’ll kick off to http://fundry.com/ if I don’t get a project coming in that requires it sooner.

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