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Seeing your content through WordPress eyes
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Add New
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wp_commentmeta
wp_comments
wp_links
wp_options
wp_postmeta
wp_posts
wp_terms
wp_term_relationships
wp_term_taxonomy
wp_usermeta
wp_users
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What substantially different
types of content do I have?
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Objective:
To build a database of election
constituencies and the candidates
standing in each of them
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• Name
• Reference numbers
• Current MP, Party
• Historic results
• Candidates
• Name
• Party
• Social media accounts
For each constituency: For each candidate:
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Constituency: Custom Fields
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Candidate: Advanced Custom Fields
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Do I want to group items
based on any of these?
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Do I want to change styling
based on any of these?
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For each candidate:
div
div class=“logo”
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But what if it’s a post type
and a grouping method?
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• Name
• Reference numbers
• Current MP, Party
• Historic results
• Candidates
• Name
• Party
• Social media accounts
For each constituency: For each candidate:
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• Sophisticated
• Creates extra database tables
• Not permitted by WP VIP
• New external dependency
• Find it at github.com/scribu
• Simplistic
• Security & sustainability
• Potentially* more efficient
• Instantly familiar
• FInd it at github.com/cftp
Posts 2 Posts plugin Sync’ed Taxonomy
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Releases
Songs Artists
Currency Role
Type
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Photo: Deep Purple Ticket Museum
Working against a restriction
often produces greater things
than getting rid of all boundaries.
Jon Lord, Deep Purple