Custom Taxonomy

This is a 61 part case study on how to set up a community library website, how to organize materials, display them and style the site. Many intermediate techniques are used in this extensive WordPress and Thesis series.

This is the fourth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this case study we are creating a community library website. In this lesson we will be deciding what the custom taxonomies will be and if they are hierarchical or non-hierarchical. We are also [...]

This is the seventh in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this case study we are creating a community library website. In this lesson we set up our hierarchical custom taxonomies. We go through the process of configuring them using the Custom Post Type [...]

This is the nineteenth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this session we look at the display of the catalog item post. We want to add the subtitle and author name (post meta and taxonomy term) to the display of the post. Video [...]

This is the 42nd in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we create the custom loop for our custom catalog page. This custom loop will display recent posts organized by custom taxonomy. We use the WordPress function get_terms() to look at the [...]

This is the 47th in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we modify the custom loop for our custom catalog page. This custom loop will display recent posts organized by custom taxonomy. We use the “if have posts” conditional statement to exclude [...]

This is the 51st in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS) for a Community Library Website. In this lesson we directly modify the data in our database using phpMyAdmin and MySQL statements.  We previously changed the name of a custom taxonomy, now we search for [...]

This is the 55th in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we add a sort order to our custom taxonomies by means of a modified version of the My Category Order plugin. Once we’ve modified the plugin, we add that sort to [...]