Have a 3 part title? (do i use custom fields?)

  • 3stripe

    (@3stripe)


    18 years, 8 months ago

    Ok I would like to have posts with 3 levels of titles, for an exhibition listings part of my site.

    1. Name of exhibition – eg ‘Scottish Watercolours’
    2. Dates of exhibition – eg ’14-18th September 2005′
    3. Location of exhibition – eg ‘The Aire Gallery, London’

    I believe that I could add 2 + 3 as custom fields, but I would like the eventual owner of the site to have an easy way to add in this extra info, without using custom fields. Is there some kind of plugin or hack to let me have 3 levels of info for posts in this category? (I would like the new fields to appear right underneath the title textbox if possible…)

    Sorry if this is a stupid question, I’m a bit of a newbie still here =)

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  • yngwin

    (@yngwin)

    18 years, 8 months ago

    If you don’t want to use this extra information in any other way, you don’t need custom fields or something like that. Just add the lower-level titles at the top of the post as a h3 or something, and adjust the theme to present it in the way you want.

    amory

    (@amory)

    18 years, 8 months ago

    “just add the lower-level titles at the top of the post” – meaning in the excerpt or post text fields. If you want to enter the date and location separetly, you could always use Ryan Boren’s plugin, post_keywords, which I modified slightly for the latest version of WP. Currently it only adds a “keywords” field, but it could be modified to add both fields.

    jonimueller

    (@jonimueller)

    18 years, 8 months ago

    Why dont’ you try the plugin, Structured Blogging?

    http://structuredblogging.org/wordpress/?page_id=3

    It can be used for product/movie reviews and for event calendaring. See that aspect of it at work on my car club’s web site,

    http://zclubofhouston.com

    And my personal blog is using it for movie and product reviews:

    http://babygotblog.com

    amory

    (@amory)

    18 years, 8 months ago

    What an awesome plugin Joni!

    Thread Starter 3stripe

    (@3stripe)

    18 years, 8 months ago

    Seconded, Structured Blogging looks great, really nice way to add some leverage to the basic post setup.

    Is it possible to reconfigure it slightly to have different fields? I need to have set a start and a finish date… hmmm… I’ll have a look anyhow…

    amory

    (@amory)

    18 years, 8 months ago

    It would be easy to rename some things. The one downside of that plugin, is that it appends the extra fields into the post_content row, as opposed to adding the separate fields into
    postmeta.

    Thread Starter 3stripe

    (@3stripe)

    18 years, 8 months ago

    Hm ok, why is that bad? Are there any other extensions that do it the other way?

    amory

    (@amory)

    18 years, 8 months ago

    If it works for you than by all means use it. It is a great plugin. What I was saying though was that rather than store the “location” field like a custom field into postmeta, it gets appended into the post_content box, along with the other fields and the actual contest. Meaning that you cannot easily output the location. As far as I can see, it can only be displayed by calling the_content. If so, then you cannot search for all posts with location equal to xyz.

    Thread Starter 3stripe

    (@3stripe)

    18 years, 8 months ago

    Ah ok I see, that doesn’t sound great. I would probs like to have an overview listing by title/location/dates which you could then click for the full article, that might be harder using this plugin, unless you could set the position of the more tag cleverly somehow. hmm

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