{"id":1854,"date":"2019-06-12T06:14:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T06:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2019.denver.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=1854"},"modified":"2019-06-18T21:21:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T21:21:42","slug":"data-structure-design-for-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2019\/session\/data-structure-design-for-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Structure Design For WordPress (60 min)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where should I store this data? A custom post type? Taxonomy? Custom Table? WordPress has a few different built-in mechanisms that allow you to store custom data, each with their strengths and weaknesses. The question is, which one should I use?<\/p>\n<p>Having a well-designed data structure is crucial to a project\u2019s long-term success. It acts as the foundation of your project, and if not well thought out, could lead to massive technical debt, and costly migrations down the road.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, we will walk through a few specific examples of project requirements, and the thought process involved when deciding how to architect the data to fulfill the requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where should I store this data? A custom post type? Taxonomy? Custom Table? WordPress has a few different built-in mechanisms that allow you to store custom data, each with their strengths and weaknesses. The question is, which one should I use? Having a well-designed data structure is crucial to a project\u2019s long-term success. It acts &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2019\/session\/data-structure-design-for-wordpress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Data Structure Design For WordPress (60 min)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8355049,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1564241400,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[1819],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[5041],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-1854","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-developer"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pacPWN-tU","session_date_time":{"date":"July 27, 2019","time":"3:30 pm"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"1819","slug":"ryan-kanner","name":"Ryan Kanner","link":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2019\/updates\/speaker\/ryan-kanner\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1854\/revisions\/2034"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1819"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/ryankanner"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}