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Yesterday, I talked about some of the advantages of using IDs when working with various pieces of WordPress data and populating different input elements, saving it to the database, and more.

For certain types of data, this works well; however, this may not always be true especially as it relates to data types such as taxonomies. This is going to be most notable in WordPress 4.2.

Taxonomy term splitting coming in WordPress 4.2

If you’re an experienced developer, then I recommend reading the blog post linked above; otherwise, suffice it to say that using IDs may not always be the best option depending on if you’re doing a database migration (and how that migration might be done).

So what else are we left to do?

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One of the features that I’ve often found myself having to implement when building custom solutions for others is implementing some type of select box – be it multi-select or single select – or another similar input element that’s [naturally] populated with a list of option elements.

These options may consist of posts, pages, custom post types, categories, taxonomies, etc. It doesn’t really matter what type of information it includes, but it does matter how the information is populated.

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When working on WordPress projects, there may be times during which you have to do some sort of processing on the content or attributes of the post before saving it to the database.

There are a number of ways to do this, but one of the most straightforward ways to go about it is to setup a custom function hooked to the save_post action and then handle the attributes of the post in that function.

If you opt to go this route, there are a few considerations that you need to make (mainly that help you avoid some type of infinite loop) in order to properly adjust the content to your liking.

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