I’m trying to come up with a solution (plugin suggestions welcome) that allows authors to attach users/creators to a post.
For example: A Movie Blog with a post that is a movie review article.
– In a custom repeater field, Author can give credit to “creator” such as a actor, director, producer etc, and input a name or select an existing user profile
– Post displays the credits below the post body and links to either the taxonomy page or to the user profile if one exists.
– If a user profile for the desired credit doesn’t exist, Author can add it and include social media links and optionally an email to invite that person as a user.
I see 3 possible options
Option A: Create a creator or credit Taxonomy and Keep user profiles separate and just build out the taxonomy page to look like a profile page. Figure out taxonomy-user association later.
Option B: Create a custom field in the creator taxonomy to associate a user profile with the taxonomy value.
Option C: Forgo the creator taxonomy and build out user profiles to be able to be create by authors without emails and make them claimable.
Option B seems to me as the easiest to implement, but Option C seems the most logical data organization. But Option C has some hurdles with no-email profile creation and claiming or merging the profiles if and author credits u/JohnnyDepp in a post and then Johnny creates a profile u/JohnnyDepp1 and needs to claims or needs to merge his self created profile with the u/JohnnyDepp profile the author created.
Appreciate any thoughts, insights or experience with creating a system like this.
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