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Feature request: Category taxonomy #478

Open EyesX opened 9 years ago

EyesX commented 9 years ago

I really like this plugin.

There is one thing I would wish for. A wiki specific category taxonomy. With a lot of documents it gets clustered without any way of categorizing.

boonebgorges commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. Have you used the tags feature built into Docs? They are specific to Docs (ie, they're not the same as post tags). Or are you envisioning something different from this?

On 08/09/2015 06:56 PM, Mattias Tengblad wrote:

I really like this plugin.

There is one thing I would wish for. A wiki specific category taxonomy. With a lot of documents it gets clustered without any way of categorizing.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-docs/issues/478.

EyesX commented 9 years ago

Just like in WordPress it self, tags and categories has its uses. Categories can be used for more general topics and can be set in hierarchy. From a front end perspective, I think its easier to handle categorizing with categories than tags, for both users and admins. Tags tend to be more specific and with a large number of tags it gets just as clustered.

dcavins commented 9 years ago

Hi EyesX-

With the upcoming version (1.9) it's actually pretty straightforward to add new taxonomies to your BP Docs installation via a plugin. If you can give me a few days, I can share the code you'd need to add a plugin that adds other taxonomies to BP Docs.

One question: Are you wanting to use the existing site's categories taxonomy or are you wanting to use a new category taxonomy that only applies to BP docs?

EyesX commented 9 years ago

@dcavins sounds good!

The latter. New, BP docs specific.

Apatrid commented 8 years ago

This is the feature I would really love to have. It seems logical to me to have custom categories and I was very surprised when I didn't find custom categories for documents in the plugin. If someone already developed this feature, please share. :)

boonebgorges commented 7 years ago

I'm not eager to add categories alongside tags in Docs itself (there's arguably already too much organizational clutter in Docs) but it would be excellent if there were a ready-to-use plugin that did it. @dcavins Did you ever have a look at this? It might be worth putting something small together in our collective free time :-D

dcavins commented 7 years ago

I have built something that works pretty well for this problem: https://github.com/dcavins/bp-docs-taxonomies

Please offer feedback if you try it out. :)