Maybe for the next time, create a question for each topic 😉 1) Menu Item for Custom Post Type archive I don’t have an automated solution here. But in my opionion it should be possible to create a similar widget inside the Menu Admin Page to display all Posttypes with an archive and generate a … Read more
If you could change the name for your taxonomy you could use <?php wp_list_categories( ‘taxonomy’ => ‘custom_category_or_whateva’, ); ?> If not read here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/list-categories-for-custom-post-type
look into using get_the_terms()
Since it looks like the “personal pages” are important in your project, I suggest a different approach. Use two distinct custom post types, one for the movies (the same you are already using) and one additional for the crew. You can create relationships between these custom post types using custom code or a specific plugin, … Read more
Check this wp_set_object_terms().
you can query_posts and orderby=title: <?php //*The Query*// $paged = ( get_query_var( ‘paged’ ) ) ? get_query_var( ‘paged’ ) : 1; query_posts($query_string . ‘&post_type=YOUR-POST-TYPE&posts_per_page=1&orderby=title&order=asc&paged=’.$paged); if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <?php endwhile; ?> <?php else : ?> <?php endif; wp_reset_query(); ?> more info: WP_Query#Order/Orderby Parameters
term_id is a unique ID for the term. term_taxonomy_id is a unique ID for the term+taxonomy pair. A taxonomy consists of sometimes many terms, so basically the term_taxonomy_id links the term_id to the taxonomy. All info on these can be found here: http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Taxonomy
the answer actually turned out to be incredibly simple. Since I was already: $term = $wp_query->queried_object; I could simple do: $term->parent
I am not sure off-hand if custom taxonomies have this (I’m almost positive they do) but Tags and Categories already have a Description field you can fill out, and then display on any page. It would take some modification of your template files but what you can do is something like this: Enter the description … Read more
If you get_term() you can access the description via the description property. To update a term you can use wp_update_term().