Taxonomy question for music events website

  • funkyaik · Member ·

    I am wanting to convert my existing music event listings website to a wordpress based system however I am having trouble getting my head around where I should use custom page types, tags and taxonomy. Any help would be appreciated.

    I want to have the following pages:

    EVENT PAGE -> details of a specific event
    GENRE INFO PAGE -> Information about specific genres
    ARITIST PAGE -> Information about specific artists

    On the event page I would like to be able to associate multiple genres and artists to an event so I am guessing that I would have to create two taxonomies, genre and also artist?

    So lets say I have an event page and one of the genres of that event is Jazz. If there is a GENRE INFO PAGE on jazz I would like to be able to link that to the page with info on Jazz. I don’t understand how or where I should make those links.

    Also

    When people add events to my current site it gives them an autosuggest of music genres that are in the database as they type so the can add them to the event. If the genre does not exist then it adds it to the database. The problem is people spell things differently for example hiphop, hip-hop, hip hop. In my current system I can associate the mis-spelt ones with the one I want displayed and therefore correct the entry to achieve continuity. For example the database may look like this:

    ID GENRE_NAME AKA_ID APPROVED
    1 hiphop 2
    2 hip-hop 1
    3 hip hop 2

    As I have programmed my own site for scratch this was not difficult but I don’t understand how to do this within the framework of WordPress? Do I need to create cutsom meta information in the genre and artist taxonomy so I can give them the values of AKA_ID and APPROVED for example?

    I hope this makes sense

    Many thanks

  • funkyaik · Member ·

    The table did not display properly should read:

    ID GENRE_NAME AKA_ID APPROVED
    1 hiphop 2
    2 hip-hop 1
    3 hip hop 2

  • funkyaik · Member ·

    That’s annoying it keeps truncating my spaces

    ID————GENRE_NAME———- AKA_ID——– APPROVED
    1————-hiphop ——————-2
    2————-hip-hop————————————1
    3————-hip hop——————-2

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