Title: Build additional category function
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Build additional category function

 *  Resolved [contactaidandelaney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/contactaidandelaneygmailcom/)
 * (@contactaidandelaneygmailcom)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/build-additional-category-function/)
 * Hello, I am building a website that has extensive custom content types – I’m 
   using the CCTM plugin. The site is essentially a database documenting research.
   I need to be able to make relationships between custom content types and for 
   them to be links. I find that WordPress’s native category and tag functions perfect
   for this – but I need essentially to have more than category plugin – because
   to dump everything into the native categories (using hierarchies) will not give
   me enough distinction.
 * EG. the site documents videos. Each video is analysed paying attention to sound,
   image and if there are things like onscreen text. So Ideally I would a “meta”
   category for each of these. But I also need to make other distinctions, so for
   example – who made it, on what topic, its mode of address, whether it the video
   is argumentative, analytical or poetic. If I were to dump all this stuff into
   WordPress’s category function it will become too messy to create relationships.
 * So my question is:
    Is it possible to duplicate WordPress’s category function
   and call it something different? And if so what would be the best way to do this?
 * Or does a plugin do what I need? I have searched for them, but I can’t find anything
   that fits the bill.

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 *  Thread Starter [contactaidandelaney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/contactaidandelaneygmailcom/)
 * (@contactaidandelaneygmailcom)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/build-additional-category-function/#post-6080666)
 * It seems everything that I need to do is core WordPress functionality. You can
   create custom taxonomies: categories or tags and as many as you like. See here:
   [https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Custom_Taxonomies](https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Custom_Taxonomies)

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 * [custom categories](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-categories/)
 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [relational](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/relational/)

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