[Resolved] Help with setting Taxonomies the right way.

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[Slavy]

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Hi I am building affiliate site with review options theme from ReHub

I wanted to ask you for your advice on best practice to set my taxonomies, categories, pages, ..

I will use my blog categories and posts to create teachers(authors) profile.
The main posts will be used to create video, article, audio posts, ...
Main Categories will be for Type of post I am creating: i.e. Apps, Software, Audio, Books, Articles, lecture, meditations, Movies, ...
Pages will show all "Types" of posts(articles, video, ...) based on the Topic.
For example I will have similar topics:
Skill Power: Habits, Motivation, Goals, Will Power
Personal Development: Brain Power, Ego, Imagination, Intuition.
Spirituality: Affirmations, Awakening, Enlightenment, Faith

So this topics will be assigned almost to all elements in worpress except(maybe) Teachers, because most of the teachers will cover most of the topics, my topics are detailed, they are not too general.

I will create another post type/taxonomy called "Quotes" from these Teachers and I will assign them to their profile.
Independently I will have woocomerrce with market place, so Vendor profile & vendor store will be linked to teachers profile as well

I will have a few extra fields attached to posts mainly.
Also will have mostly posts with free information, but some of the posts will be actual offers from Teachers(with affiliate links) to their books, programs & classes either on my site or to their site.

I think I should have topics as Taxonomies as well so I can filter some pages properly. In case that I need to apply my topics to my teachers(in blog section".

So far I set my wordpress without any relationships built with Toolset, if needed I will do so.
Your guidance will greatly appreciated

Slavy
Is there any documentation that you are following? yes screenshot of my fields

Is there a similar example that we can see? Old Template I was using, but never finished the setup > hidden link

What is the link to your site? Work in progress > hidden link

[Nigel]

Hi there

That's a very broad question, I can't go through all of the kinds of content you have and tell you what to use for them, but let me give you some broad guidelines and then you can ask specific questions about any particular content that you are not sure about and I can give you an opinion about that.

Typically it should be fairly clear what you would create custom post types for. I would make one comment on your proposed set up: don't use standard WP blog posts for anything other than blog/news posts. If you want to create a teacher profile, create a custom post type for it, and a custom taxonomy if required, rather than using in-built posts and categories.

It may make sense for you to create a post relationship between such a teacher profile post and their content posts. This page may be instructive: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/how-to-create-custom-searches-and-relationships-for-users/

A common question arises about whether to use custom fields or taxonomies.

You would normally use custom fields where information is specific to a post (e.g. a phone number field) and taxonomies to group posts that share the same information (e.g. a city field for where a service is available).

In ambiguous cases an important consideration is whether you will be setting up custom searches with filters based upon that data. Taxonomies are optimised for querying posts whereas custom fields are not, so if you wanted users to be able to filter by some field, better make it a taxonomy if that makes sense rather than a custom field.

Also, taxonomies, usefully, have built-in archives, making it trivial to display all posts of some type with a particular taxonomy term assigned.

Again, if you have a specific question about how you are thinking about setting up something in particular, then let me know and I will try and help.