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Summary

  • Full CRUD admin UI for managing taxonomy definitions (not just terms), similar to Content Types page
  • Custom taxonomy definitions created via API now visible in sidebar with edit/delete UI
  • Dynamic sidebar taxonomy entries fetched from API instead of hardcoded
  • Custom field definitions for taxonomy types using the same FieldEditor dialog UI from content types (14 field types)
  • SEO metadata support for taxonomy terms (title, description, image, canonical, noIndex)
  • Features system for taxonomies (drafts, revisions, preview, search) mirroring content type feature toggles
  • Content visibility system (public/members/private) across all content collections
  • PUT /api/auth/me endpoint for profile self-service

Changes

Server-side (packages/core)

  • New API route GET/PUT/DELETE /_emdash/api/taxonomies/:name for single taxonomy definition operations
  • New handlers handleTaxonomyGet, handleTaxonomyUpdate, handleTaxonomyDelete in taxonomies handler
  • New schema updateTaxonomyDefBody for PUT validation
  • Taxonomy field definitions schema with 14 field types (string, text, number, integer, boolean, datetime, select, multiSelect, image, file, reference, json, url, color) with validation, options, required, widget, defaultValue
  • Term SEO integration with SeoRepository using taxonomy:{name} collection key
  • Content visibility column + filtering on all ec_* content tables
  • PUT /api/auth/me for user profile self-service updates
  • Migrations 033-036: content visibility, taxonomy fields, taxonomy SEO, taxonomy supports

Admin UI (packages/admin)

  • TaxonomyTypeEditor: reuses FieldEditor dialog (2-step: type selection grid → configuration form) from ContentTypeEditor for managing custom fields
  • TaxonomyTypeEditor: features section (drafts, revisions, preview, search, SEO) identical to ContentTypeEditor
  • TaxonomyManager: updated with TaxonomyFieldInput supporting all 14 field types, SEO fields section
  • ContentEditor: visibility dropdown (public/members/private)
  • Sidebar: dynamic taxonomy nav items from API
  • New routes: /taxonomy-types, /taxonomy-types/new, /taxonomy-types/$name

Addresses PR review feedback

  • @tohaitrieu: Custom field definitions on taxonomy types ✅
  • @tohaitrieu: SEO metadata for taxonomy terms ✅

Test plan

  • Navigate to Admin > Taxonomy Types — see list of all taxonomy definitions
  • Create a new custom taxonomy with custom fields using the FieldEditor dialog
  • Verify all 14 field types work in the FieldEditor for taxonomy fields
  • Edit an existing taxonomy — change label, toggle hierarchical, update collections, add/edit/remove fields
  • Toggle features (drafts, revisions, preview, search, SEO) on a taxonomy type
  • Create a term with custom field data and verify it persists
  • Enable SEO on a taxonomy and verify SEO fields appear when editing terms
  • Delete a taxonomy — confirm terms and SEO data are also removed
  • Verify custom taxonomy appears in sidebar after creation
  • Verify content visibility dropdown works on content editor
  • Verify role-based access: only admins see Taxonomy Types

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Add a full CRUD admin UI for managing taxonomy definitions, similar
to Content Types. Previously, custom taxonomies could only be created
via the API but had no way to be listed, edited, or deleted from the
admin interface.

Changes:
- Add GET/PUT/DELETE API endpoints for single taxonomy definitions
- Add updateTaxonomy/deleteTaxonomy client functions
- Add TaxonomyTypeList and TaxonomyTypeEditor components
- Add /taxonomy-types, /taxonomy-types/new, /taxonomy-types/$name routes
- Add "Taxonomy Types" entry in the Admin sidebar section
- Make taxonomy sidebar entries dynamic (fetched from API)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Can you

  • Add the custom fields for Taxonomy Type?
  • Enable SEO for Taxonomy Edit Dialog.

I created Custom Plugin for that.

The confirm dialog remained open after successfully deleting a
taxonomy, causing errors on subsequent clicks.

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- Add custom field definitions for taxonomy types using the same FieldEditor
  dialog UI from content types (14 field types with full configuration)
- Add SEO metadata support for taxonomy terms (title, description, image)
- Add features system (drafts, revisions, preview, search) mirroring
  content types feature toggles
- Add content visibility system (public/members/private) across all
  content collections
- Add PUT /api/auth/me endpoint for profile self-service
- Migrations 033-036: content visibility, taxonomy fields, taxonomy SEO,
  taxonomy supports columns

Addresses feedback from PR emdash-cms#213 review (tohaitrieu):
- Custom field definitions on taxonomy types
- SEO metadata for taxonomy terms

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The users table already has a JSON `data` column for extensible user
metadata, but it was not exposed in any API endpoint. Now available in:

- GET /api/auth/me — returns user.data
- PUT /api/auth/me — accepts data (merge with existing keys)
- PUT /api/admin/users/:id — accepts data (admin override)
- GET /api/admin/users/:id — returns user.data
- Response schemas updated to include data field

No migration needed — the column has existed since migration 001.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Backend for custom role definitions with configurable permissions:

- Migration 037: _emdash_role_defs table with 5 built-in roles seeded
- RoleRegistry in-memory cache for custom role permission lookups
- Extended hasPermission() to support custom roles via registry
- Relaxed toRoleLevel() and roleLevel Zod schema for custom levels (1-99)
- CRUD API: GET/POST /api/roles, GET/PUT/DELETE /api/roles/:name
- Built-in roles are protected: cannot delete or change their permissions
- Deleting a custom role reassigns affected users to subscriber
- Admin API client with ALL_PERMISSIONS reference for UI
- Custom metadata fields support (reuses FieldEditor field definitions)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- RoleTypeList: list all roles (built-in + custom) with CRUD actions
- RoleTypeEditor: create/edit roles with permission picker and metadata fields
- RoleBadge: dynamically fetches custom roles for labels and colors
- InviteUserModal, UserDetail, UserList: use dynamic roles in dropdowns
- Sidebar: add Role Types nav entry under Admin section
- Router: add /role-types, /role-types/new, /role-types/$name routes

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The /roles and /roles/[name] endpoints were returning 404 because they
were not injected via injectCoreRoutes.

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Approach judgment

This PR bundles a large set of features: taxonomy type CRUD, custom role definitions, content visibility, taxonomy term SEO, and profile self-service. While taxonomy type management addresses real feedback, the PR is architecturally incomplete in two critical ways:

  1. Content visibility is a UI-only placebo. The visibility column is added to every content table and the admin UI lets editors change it, but nothing in the list/get handlers or the sitemap generator filters by it."Members-only" and "private" content is still returned publicly.

  2. Custom roles permissions are non-functional. The PR adds a _emdash_role_defs table, a RoleRegistry class, and a full permissions UI, but the API authorization layer (requirePerm in packages/core/src/api/authorize.ts) never instantiates or consults the registry. Custom roles fall back to numeric level comparison, making their explicit permission arrays a no-op.

These are not edge-case bugs; they are headline features that do not work as described.

Additionally, the PR modifies published packages (emdash, @emdash-cms/admin) with new user-facing behavior but includes no changeset, which violates the AGENTS.md release workflow.

Line-level findings

Content visibility stored but never enforced

  • handleContentList filters by status and locale but never visibility, so private content is returned in admin lists.
  • handleContentGet does not check visibility before returning an item.
  • The sitemap SQL query selects all published, non-deleted content without filtering out members or private rows.

Custom role permissions ignored

  • requirePerm calls hasPermission(user, permission) without a RoleRegistry. The runtime never loads role definitions, so custom roles always use numeric comparison.

Taxonomy bulk delete leaves orphaned SEO rows

  • handleTaxonomyDelete loops through terms and calls TaxonomyRepository.delete(), which removes junction rows and term rows but does NOT delete _emdash_seo entries. The individual handleTermDelete route does clean up SEO, but the bulk path does not.

Field type mismatch between taxonomy schema and FieldEditor

  • The server-side TaxonomyFieldDef type only covers 6 types (and includes "textarea" which isn't in the Zod schema). The client schema and PR description claim 14 types, but the shared FieldEditor component only supports FieldType values and does not list "url" or "color". Users can't create url/color taxonomy/role fields through the admin UI, and unsafe casts in TaxonomyTypeEditor and RoleTypeEditor hide the mismatch from TypeScript.

Recommendation

Fix the visibility enforcement, wire up the RoleRegistry in authorization middleware, add SEO cleanup to handleTaxonomyDelete, align the field types with what FieldEditor actually supports, and add a changeset before merge.

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