I’m sorry, i’ve tried to google translate your topic in my language because i didn’t understand, but it did not help 🙁
Could you explain with small sentences what you are expecting ?
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Nina15
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Apologies for my vague question. Let me explain what I intend to achieve and perhaps you may consider this as an enhancement for a future release:
Most websites have posts and use categories and tags to organize the site and some have custom post types which may have their own taxonomies or may use an existing taxonomy (e.g. via register taxonomy for object type). This way one does not need to recreate same or similar taxonomy terms for each post type.
As IdeaStream is also a post type it could benefit from the same sort of flexibility i.e. “tap” into an existing taxonomy. But it seems, as things stand, one needs to recreate whole sets of categories and tags just for the “ideas” part of a website – and this makes Ideas an island into itself (disconnected from posts and pages and other CPTs). Would’t it be more powerful to be able to leverage existing taxonomies within IdeaStream?
For example if one would be able to choose a term from the standard post category for an “idea”, posts that are using the same term are somehow “connected” to the idea i.e. the category archive can show both the posts and ideas – this makes more powerful relationships within a site.
Since IdeaStream currently does not, through its UI, support existing custom taxonomies (it uses its own), I wonder if there is a hook or filter to enable it programatically without changing the core files. Thank you.
Ok thanks a lot for your explanation, so you want to use post taxonomies within WP Idea Stream. I’m not sure it’s a good idea as the plugin is using its own taxonomies on purpose to avoid mixing posts and ideas.
So i’m sorry i think i prefer it this way. But of course you can do it using hooks, you can for instance add an action on wp_idea_stream_init and add the ‘category’ taxonomy to the wp_idea_stream_get_post_type(). I guess you’ll also probably need to filter the form to include the regular categories in the checkboxes using the wp_idea_stream_ideas_get_category_edit filter for instance.
Thanks for your interest in this plugin.
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Nina15
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Thank you very much imath for your reply. So there is hope after all! Brilliant plugin.
