Group of groups ?

  • Resolved welshfg

    (@welshfg)


    4 years, 10 months ago

    Hi

    My site deals with family’s history and so contains informationx about people.
    These people are linked by their surname.

    Every post or media are linked to one or more people. I use Tag Group to present the informations by surnamne.

    As I got a lot of individuals, and also a lot of surnames, the tag group page begins to grow a lot…

    So I’d like to make group of groups, that is :
    post -> one or more people (tag)
    people -> one surname (group of tags)
    surnames -> one letter

    So if you’re looking about Mick Jagger, you will first have to click on J to open an accordion to display the surnames beginning by J, then clock Jagger to have all the people with that surname.

    Is it possible with this plugin ?
    Could it be a new feature ?
    Do you have an idea about that ?

    Thanks in advance

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  • Hi,

    This plugin cannot do groups (or subgroups) within groups. This would be technically much more complicated than now (and it is already).

    Theoretically I could imagine the following solution:

    – You create a new custom post type “surname” with a taxonomy “initial”.
    – For each surname you create a post of the post type “surname”. Inside you put a list of links to all persons who have that surname. Each post also uses one tag of the taxonomy “initial” with the initial (first letter) of that surname.
    – Then you use an Alphabetical Tag Cloud for the taxonomy “initial”.

    It would still require manual work to create the posts of the “surname” type. There should be plugins to create the list of persons automatically, filtered by surname.

    Second approach: You simply create chapters on your page, one chapter for each letter/initial. Then you place in each chapter a tag cloud, same as now, but for each letter you use the parameter “include” (or the corresponding field in the Gutenberg block) to include only tag groups with the letter of this chapter. So in the backend you still have a huge number of groups, but on the page the tag cloud widgets are smaller, because each of them shows only tabs with the same first letter. Then you must update the tag clouds when ever you add a new surname.

    Sorry, that’s all that comes to my mind now. I think your project really calls for a custom plugin, since it has a very specific way how it should work.

    Thread Starter welshfg

    (@welshfg)

    Hi @camthor

    Thanks for your reply.
    I will have a look at your second approach which seems interesting.
    At the end, maybe I’ll need to create a plugin.

    Thanks.

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