Hi,
I have a conceptual question. Think about the example books and authors. I made a webshop that sells books. BOOKS (WooCommerce products) have different attributes for description and filtering.
They also have a bidirectional relationship with AUTHORS. So there is also the CPT author, that also comes with some fields and images to describe them.
Now, I realize I could also create a custom taxonomy for the WooCommerce product (book). I was not aware that I can add custom fields to a custom taxonomy, i.e. it will server like a category but at the same time describe the category in more detail with custom fields.
I am asking myself now: would it be better to assign the custom taxonomy to the books, instead of creating a separate CPT author and bidirectional relationship?
(actually, it’s composers and musical pieces but easier to comprehend with books and authors)
best regards
Markus
I don’t see any difference one way or the other except for one thing.
Lets say that in the future you wanted to group the authors by genre, Sci-Fi, Historical, Non Fiction, etc. It would be pretty much impossible to do this with authors being a taxonomy. On the other hand as a CPT you could add a genre taxonomy attached to the author as well as the books so that both authors and books could be sorted into these terms.
As far as future proofing it I would go with a CPT.
Thanks a lot John! This kind of input is so much of value, as it’s important to know what to do before figuring out how to do it.
I discussed this with someone else as well and she suggested even a complete other approach by using WooCommerce attributes instead of CPT and instead of a custom taxonomy. Many opportunities out there.
Thanks for explaining
WC attributes are nothing more than a built in taxonomy system. The attributes you create for example “Author” are child taxonomies.
