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[Plugin: Custom Field Taxonomies] Is this possible with the plugin?

• gerald@WPcustoms

  Member

  @geeman12030

  6 years, 4 months ago

  Hello there,

  I installed the plugin and am not sure if that will do what I got in mind. Here´s the idea:

  so far I used custom fields for this: year(key) = 2009(value)
  It’s much more practicable to have the years in a tag taxonomy. can I update all posts’ custom fields to the YEAR tag taxonomy with this plugin?

  I`d like to use a tag page then where the years are listed and work the same way normal tags work.

  Thanks for any help 🙂

  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-taxonomies/

• MichaelH

  Member

  @michaelh

  6 years, 4 months ago

  Not that I can address the question about the plugin being able to do that, but if the dates are the dates of each post, have you thought of using the type=yearly argument with the template tag, wp_get_archives()? That will give you a link to display all 2009 posts in an archive.

  Or even consider an archive type plugin/widget if you don’t like WordPress’ wp_get_archives:
  * http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-archives-reloaded/
  * http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/collapsing-archives/
  * http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/clean-archives-reloaded/
  Collapsing
  * http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/collapsing-categories/

  gerald@WPcustoms

  Member

  @geeman12030

  6 years, 4 months ago

  Thanks for your reply.
  It´s not only the date.
  Imagine a movie database site with several custom fields filled with infos like actors, director etc.
  and to get away from all the custom fields I´d move the infos from there to tag categories.
  one tag section for actors, one for the appearance year, one for directors and so on.

  Jens Wedin

  Member

  @jedisthlm

  6 years, 4 months ago

  Hi

  What I think you want works with this plugin. Check out my site

  http://chwisgi.com/?age=15
  or
  http://chwisgi.com/?country=usa

  Cheers,
  Jens

  gerald@WPcustoms

  Member

  @geeman12030

  6 years, 4 months ago

  yes, as far as I see with your links you got two taxonomies: AGE and COUNTRY and can select tags within these groups right?

  Thats what I`m looking for and I am able to create these groups following this info:
  http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/05/06/custom-taxonomies-in-wordpress-28

  the problem for me is moving the custom field infos from more than 1000 posts to the specific tag group.
  can I do this with a sql query?
  i.e. move all ACTOR values from the custom field into the ACTOR tag group for each post

  Thanks for all your help guys. very appreciated 🙂

  Jens Wedin

  Member

  @jedisthlm

  6 years, 4 months ago

  Hi

  AGE and COUNTRY are custom fields in my setup (I use Magic Fields which is a custom fields plugin).

  SQL stuff is not my cup of tea, anyone else knows?

  /Jens

  MichaelH

  Member

  @michaelh

  6 years, 4 months ago

  Continue discussion here:
  http://wordpress.org/support/topic/397102?replies=1