Okay, so I want to do something, and after searching on Google I couldn’t find any answers. Maybe you guys can help.
basically, I want to assign every post with a little bit of unique identification information. Every post would be tagged white, gray, or black. I don’t want to use categories or tags because I want to display this “unique identifier” on the home page only, and not in the posts where the categories and tags are already shown.
For example, If I made a post about white tigers, I would want to identify it as white post (no racism or anything intended, just an example), and display it on the home page only.
If I made a post about gray tigers, I would want to identify the post as gray, and you get the point.
How can I go about doing this without a plugin?
TL;DR – Want to identify each post with a unique identifier, but can’t use categories and tags.
Please help!
There are two mechanisms in WordPress that would fit your use case: custom taxonomies and post metadata.
Since you have already determined that you want something close to mechanics to categories/tags (which are built-in taxonomies) it seems like custom taxonomy is a right fit for your use case.
See
register_taxonomy()documentation on creating it.