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WP 4.4-alpha: taxonomy.php makes little babies ;-)

The taxonomy is the basis of categories, keywords (tags) and other rankings in WordPress (like language with xili-language trilogy). Since WP 2.3, all key components are found in the file wp-includes / taxonomy.php. WP 4.4 release announces a big change. The developer will seek information in 3 files:

<?php
/**
 * Core Taxonomy API
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Taxonomy
 * @since 2.3.0
 */

/** Core taxonomy functionality */
require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/taxonomy-functions.php' );

/** WP_Term class */
require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-wp-term.php' );

/** WP_Tax_Query class */
require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-wp-tax-query.php' );

including the new wp-term class that strengthens the previous object describing the terms methodically …

Added to this is the new term meta table that will be very useful to supplement the description of a tag, for example.

It is too early to draw conclusions but Xili-language will continue to take advantage of these new classes, functions and tables.

For now, Xili-language still works;-)

Justin Tadlock has published a comprehensive article for developers.

To still follow (closely) …

Be aware about some plugins when creating multilingual WordPress website…

Around 6 years ago, when xili-language was started, to resume only two plugins (WPML, qTranlate) were available with very different data architectures. Neither of them respected the architecture of WordPress core since the first added many tables and the second changed the content of posts by compacting the different languages in each field. It is true that taxonomies had appeared with WP 2.3. Today, the offer is bloated as the ongoing attempts to show the comparison .
Two extensions have recently emerged and their architecture, once installed will compromise more or less seriously the database. “Multi language” adds tables to put the translations of posts thus without extension, can not be recovered.
WPGlobus “Multilingual everything” as it modifies like qTranslate (and its successors qTranslateX) content as shown in the database tables below:

Post #1 n'is not yet multilingual
Post #1 n'is not yet multilingual

and when it makes multilingual (via tabs), we note the significant change of the field of post table … here each field containing the three languages in {}! How then will be queries ? At least not according to the rules WP_Query 🙁

WP Globus modifies irreversibly the content of fields
WP Globus modifies irreversibly the content of fields

“Babble” does not use taxonomies but the custom post type to store posts according to language. Not easy for queries … to follow because by yet officially in filing plugins (repository).

Working with a content management system (CMS) such as WordPress requires some principles, the first is to preserve data integrity before and after adding “tag” that specifies the language (taxonomy) or links to articles in other languages (custom field). This is the basic principle of Xili-language trilogy established since its creation and enduring the version of WP 2.3 to 4.3, which will be out soon.

Michel