In this text and video Quick Guide, we’ll explain how to register custom taxonomies using the Pods plugin. Using Pods to create custom taxonomies is easy, and doesn’t require writing any PHP code of your own.

I’m working on a WordPress project that needs custom post types, custom fields, custom taxonomies, and custom taxonomy meta. To do this, I installed three entirely separate plugins: CPT UI, Advanced Custom Fields, and a taxonomy metabox solution that I regret using (its code dates back to before WordPress had taxonomy meta, and uses its own custom data structure).

In this article, we explore WordPress user metadata, usually called simply WordPress user meta.