WordPress Development: Post Types, Taxonomies & Metaboxes

By: Juan Pablo De la torre Valdez ( @JuanDevWP )

What are Taxonomies?

It’s a feature to group content.

You can relate content to another based on a common term

Default Taxonomies

WordPress already have some Taxonomies built in:

• Categories

• Tags

Categories & Tags

Tags • Optional (non

mandatory) • No Hierarchical

Categories • Every post has a category (are

mandatory) • Hierarchical (parent and child)

Custom TaxonomiesCan be:

No hierarchical Hierarchical

Taxonomies & TermsA Taxonomy separates content in groups that are called Terms, example:

Musical Genre

Electronic Music

Taxonomy Term ChildTerm

Rock

World

EDM Trance House

AlternativePunk Rock

Metal

Caribbean Celtic Polka

What we will have at the end of this section?