Excellent! Thank you so much for this. I have been trying to explain Taxonomies to my clients for years. This video explanation is so much better. I look forward to sharing it.
I hope you will expound on this paragraph in a subsequent video: "If you want to get really sophisticated, taxonomies can be used to assist with access control, personalization, injecting dynamic content (like calls to action or ads), and even re-theming posts on an individual basis." Thanks for the info on taxonomies.
This was a really helpful post. I learn by seeing, so the recipes example was great. I would love to see a small library of example case studies for how these could benefit cause I'm still a little fuzzy on that, and I feel like processing a few more examples would really lock it down in my mind yanno?
@clintt5266 - I just updated the article version with some examples of custom taxonomies and structures that might help paint a clearer picture on how you could implement this strategy in a number of different scenarios: theadminbar.com/custom-taxonomies/ (it's the section before the conclusion, towards the bottom)
@@TheAdminBar Thank you! I just visited the article and bookmarked it future reference. Coming back and re-reading my initial comment, I sounded kinda demanding! I meant to say I appreciated your video and that I would be on the lookout for additional similar examples for clarity, but you went above and beyond to provide those. Much appreciated *cheers*
Thanks Kyle, CPT, Taxonomies can be quite confusing and it's easy to get it wrong which can create tech debt down the line. The more of these real world examples from experienced full stack devs like yourself the better. PS: I've been meaning to ask you this for while: what's up with that red lightning coming out of both sides of your head? Is that some sort of viking stuff harking back to the 'old gods'? Just curious lol 🙃
What about a tv show structure. How would you do that? For example each show has multiple episodes, those episodes belong to a specific season.. what would your structure be?
I probably wouldn't use taxonomies for each episode (since they are all one-of-one). I'd have a post type for the show and posts for each episode. That would, I think, give you everything you need to query. Now, if there are multiple shows, and you were looking to improve discoverability, you could consider things like "Genres" as a hierarchical taxonomy or actor's names as a non-hierarchical one. Hard to say without really knowing all the structure, how it's being displayed, the flow of the website, etc.
I actually just did a site like this. It's a curated best of lists website and TV was one if the main categories. We used a custom taxonomy and then broke TV up into subcategories (Comedy, Drama, Short Series etc...). Each subcategory has an archive page where we can display a listing grid of shows (custom post types) on it. We used ACF and JetEngine to accomplish this.
Love leaving you too it for a while then coming back and having a few refreshers and gold nuggets to get my head around...
Excellent! Thank you so much for this. I have been trying to explain Taxonomies to my clients for years. This video explanation is so much better. I look forward to sharing it.
Good advice about not overdoing multiple overlapping taxonomies
Learned that one the hard way 😂
Good explanation, I like the filing cabinet analogy!
Thanks!
I hope you will expound on this paragraph in a subsequent video: "If you want to get really sophisticated, taxonomies can be used to assist with access control, personalization, injecting dynamic content (like calls to action or ads), and even re-theming posts on an individual basis." Thanks for the info on taxonomies.
"Expound on this" = "Expand on it, but in a deep serious voice and dramatically holding one hand out front, opera style" 👍
I worked on this all day yesterday but I'm having trouble finding the right examples. I hope to have this video out soon though!
Yay@@TheAdminBar
I NEED MORE OF THIS!!!
This was a really helpful post. I learn by seeing, so the recipes example was great. I would love to see a small library of example case studies for how these could benefit cause I'm still a little fuzzy on that, and I feel like processing a few more examples would really lock it down in my mind yanno?
That's a great idea! I'll work on updating the article with some additional examples!
@clintt5266 - I just updated the article version with some examples of custom taxonomies and structures that might help paint a clearer picture on how you could implement this strategy in a number of different scenarios: theadminbar.com/custom-taxonomies/ (it's the section before the conclusion, towards the bottom)
@@TheAdminBar Thank you! I just visited the article and bookmarked it future reference. Coming back and re-reading my initial comment, I sounded kinda demanding! I meant to say I appreciated your video and that I would be on the lookout for additional similar examples for clarity, but you went above and beyond to provide those. Much appreciated *cheers*
Thanks Kyle, CPT, Taxonomies can be quite confusing and it's easy to get it wrong which can create tech debt down the line. The more of these real world examples from experienced full stack devs like yourself the better.
PS: I've been meaning to ask you this for while: what's up with that red lightning coming out of both sides of your head? Is that some sort of viking stuff harking back to the 'old gods'? Just curious lol 🙃
Red lighting???
@@TheAdminBar don't worry about it mate I was on the red wine last night. Should never interwebz and drink 😴
What about a tv show structure. How would you do that? For example each show has multiple episodes, those episodes belong to a specific season.. what would your structure be?
I probably wouldn't use taxonomies for each episode (since they are all one-of-one). I'd have a post type for the show and posts for each episode. That would, I think, give you everything you need to query.
Now, if there are multiple shows, and you were looking to improve discoverability, you could consider things like "Genres" as a hierarchical taxonomy or actor's names as a non-hierarchical one.
Hard to say without really knowing all the structure, how it's being displayed, the flow of the website, etc.
I actually just did a site like this. It's a curated best of lists website and TV was one if the main categories. We used a custom taxonomy and then broke TV up into subcategories (Comedy, Drama, Short Series etc...). Each subcategory has an archive page where we can display a listing grid of shows (custom post types) on it. We used ACF and JetEngine to accomplish this.