💡 Add an Object-Relationship Table

[viktorix]

Context

The two things missing from WordPress to make it a stellar CMS is Fields functionality and Posts (and other objects) Relationships functionality.

I requested this 8 years ago for WordPress, and we still don’t have one (one of the reasons we can’t have nice things.)
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14513

Back then I called it posts_relationships but really it should be object_relationships to support many-to-many relationships for post-to-post, post-to-user, post-to-taxonomy, post-to-term, user-to-user, user-to-taxonomy, etc. etc.

Original petition

Possible implemantion

@KTS915 created a plugin for object relationships, which can be used as a basis for core implementation:
https://github.com/KTS915/Object-Relationships

I think it’s the basis for core implementation. The reasons are (a) it’s very flexible, (b) it works in a very similar way to current tables, and (c) most importantly, putting it in core would mean devs could rely on its existence and use standardized functions to make use of it.

Possible Solution

Object relationships plugin (see above)

Will you be able to help with the implementation?

Migrating petition from the forum.

[ClassyBot]

This issue has been mentioned on ClassicPress Forums. There might be relevant details there:

https://forums.classicpress.net/t/add-an-object-relationship-table/2830/33

[xxsimoxx]

Closed by #1429.