Multiple taxonomies on same permalink rule

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I have a few taxonomies and it would be nice to be able to sort by two at time with a permalink. For example, I have two taxonomies, design-show-year and designer-or-firm. I’d like to have this permalink to get a listing of all these that match:

/design-show-year/2011/designer-or-firm/pete-klein/

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Is this possible using the WordPress system by doing a rewrite and piping that into index.php, or can WordPress only handle one taxonomy at a time?

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  1. Really interesting. I’m also looking for something similar. Using a facetted search/filter to use on multiple taxonomies. Right now I am using Custom fields and Scribus ‘old’ Custom Field Taxonomies plugin to get similar functionality. I still wonder if taxonomies is the way to go when I am also looking for a way to search ranges (price between 5-10$).

    Please update how it’s going!

  2. I know it might not be the answer you’re looking for, but I have to be honest; I think you’re gonna open a whole can of worms if you pursue that kind of permalink.

    • It’s not exactly semantic (admittedly objective)
    • Many would consider it ‘too nested’
    • It’s not clear (for users and for WordPress) if a parameter is;
      • a taxonomy term
      • a child of a taxonomy term
      • a secondary taxonomy

    Plus I’d also add, since this is an archive-type request (that lists multiple posts), URL query parameters might be the better alternative (semantically and logistically).

    In fact, I think something like scribu’s Taxonomy Drill-Down would be awesome for this!