Equivalent to posts_cats, posts_cats_prefix and posts_catlink possible?

[thetrial]

The possibilities of posts_cats are brilliant. Is it possible to design its architecture more open?

I have something like »a lyric text« in »a work«. This was »tag« -> »category« … but I had to change that to »category« -> »work«, where »work« is an own taxonomy. I had to do that because »category« had to become »lyric«.

I would need something like posts_tax='taxonomy', posts_tax_prefix and posts_taxlink. Or is this already possible and I don’t see it?

[catlist id="18,34" orderby=title order=asc posts_cats=yes posts_cats_prefix=" → " posts_catlink=yes template=ol] won't work, so I'd need [catlist id="18,34" orderby=title order=asc posts_tax='taxonomy' posts_tax_prefix=" → " posts_taxlink=yes template=ol] … where posts_tax='taxonomy' contains the "yes" of posts_cats and automatically points to the additional taxonomy.

[klemens-st]

It is possible to implement this but would be a bit more complicated than the shortcode you suggested, remember each custom taxonomiy can have many taxonomy terms, so trying to design dedicated shortcode parameters is impractical given the unlimited possible values users may need.

A better approach would be a whole custom syntax similar to customfield_compare. I can't promise this will be implemented soon but it is a natural expansion of existing features and worth looking into.