Is there a way to use regular categories with custom post types? It seems like there is better functionality and options with regular categories (such as permalink options, etc.).
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Method 1
No problem, the categories and tags are also registered as taxonomies that you can pass to the taxonomies argument when you call register_post_type(). Categories are category and tags are post_tag. You can also do this later with register_taxonomy_for_object_type():
add_action( 'init', 'wpse6098_init', 100 ); // 100 so the post type has been registered
function wpse6098_init()
{
register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'category', 'your_custom_post_type' );
}
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