• We are using woocommerce on multiple site using woocommerce attributes functionality for products. Is there a way or a plugin to have the same woocommerce/attributes functionality for regular post? Thanks

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    How would this work for regular posts? What do you want to do?

    Thread Starter esp5466

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    We are trying building a wiki/glossary style site.
    Each WORD will have its own definition of course but then a lot of information about concept and references and more…that will be shared with other WORDS.
    As an example “DEAD SEA” and “RED SEA” will have a lot of common information/references so we do not want to enter them twice and to have to update them on several posts when this info is updated.
    We are using woocommerce and what we are looking for looks a lot like the Attributes functionality in woocommerce. It’s still would be limited as in our case the TERMS of the Attributes would have a lot of info.
    Just trying to find the right direction. Thanks

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    I think what you might want is a custom taxonomy to augment the existing categories and tags

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies

    I’d probably create one or more taxonomies then use Advanced Custom Fields to add fields to taxonomy terms (like “related terms”, an image, a short description, etc.)

    Or you could use ACF to add those fields to categories or tags.

    Thread Starter esp5466

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    I see, thanks – But how can I show the same info/data on different posts without having to enter it multiple times?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    You associate the term with the post just like you’d do with a category or tag.

    Thread Starter esp5466

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    You lost me there. So I create a post, enter a definition then “associate” the post the term, but where is the term?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    If you create a taxonomy, it would be just like categories or tags. Otherwise, use categories or tags and extend them with custom fields.

    Thread Starter esp5466

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    ok – so “DEAD SEA” and “RED SEA” are 2 separate posts. They share some information in a section called CONCEPT. In this CONCEPT section we have a table with references and outside links. This table will also show on other posts.
    So I create a new taxonomy that I call “ALL CONCEPTS” then a Category “CONCEPT SEA” in this category a post with the table and references that need to be shared on DEAD SEA and RED SEA. How do I bring this post to show on DEAD SEA and RED SEA?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    You’d have to do some custom archive templates for those taxonomies.

    Thread Starter esp5466

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    IS there anyway, may be through shortcode to bring the reference post into the “main” post?
    May be we should be using Toolset.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    You could use toolset or ACF or a number of similar plugins. If you’re “tagging” the posts, you could write a filter on the_content() to pull in the stuff at the bottom of relevant posts.

    Thread Starter esp5466

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    We have both so we’ll try them. Thanks

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