Adding book taxonomies
Book taxonomies are like custom fields. Book Database comes with three taxonomies built-in:
- Publishers
- Genres
- Sources
You may add as many extra taxonomies as you like. Examples might be "Shelves", "Tropes", "Themes", etc.
To add a new taxonomy, simply fill out the empty fields at the bottom of the table.
- Name: The name of your taxonomy.
- Slug: The URL-friendly version of your taxonomy. This will be pre-filled for you. It should be all lowercase and use hyphens instead of spaces.
- Format: What type of field you want in the admin area - either checkboxes (like categories in WordPress) or a simple text box (like tags in WordPress).
Checkboxes look like this when adding/editing a book:
And text fields look like this:
If you're going to have a lot of different options ("terms"), then "Text" is recommended. Otherwise "Checkbox" is recommended.
Editing existing taxonomies
You can edit and delete existing taxonomies with a few exceptions:
- The built-in taxonomies (publisher, genre, and source) cannot be deleted.
- Slugs cannot be edited, so choose them wisely!
If you delete a taxonomy then this will also delete any terms that may have already been assigned to a book.