Update existing posts?

  • Resolved Shed

    (@shed)


    10 years ago

    Hi guys,

    My colleagues and I have been working on a workflow system for small magazines that publish in multiple platforms (print, web, digital magazine). Our system is based in Dropbox, so Post via Dropbox works great for pushing content to the web version of the magazine!

    We have one request for future versions: updating posts! Technically I have no idea how viable this is, but I’ve seen it done with a similar plugin for Google Docs, which unfortunately hasn’t been updated in 2.5 years: http://wordpress.org/plugins/docs-to-wordpress/

    Ideally, with our system, an editor would be able to make a change to a single copy of an article and push that change to all platforms. For that, PvD would need to be able to update existing posts.

    You can read more about our system here: http://tkbr.ccsp.sfu.ca/mpub/2014/04/14/the-flying-narwhal-small-mag-workflow/

    Thank you and keep up the great work!

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-via-dropbox/

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  • Plugin Author PaoloBe

    (@paolobe)

    9 years, 12 months ago

    Hi,

    what do you mean for updating post? Have you encountered some problems?
    Pvd already supports it in two ways: one is to put the id of the post that you want to update inside the [id] tag, the other is to move the txt file, which it was just posted, from the “posted” folder to the default folder (Apps/Post_via_Dropbox). It has the id in filename, e.g. “14-some title.txt”, in this way Pvd can update it.
    You can read faqs for more info.

    Bye,
    Paolo

    Thread Starter Shed

    (@shed)

    9 years, 12 months ago

    Ah, I did not see that on the FAQ before! I see it now, but that feature is a bit buried among all the other tags.

    The method seems a little convoluted from our end, since it requires knowing the ID of a post (and therefore cannot be automated; I’ve noticed the IDs are not sequential), but It’s workable.

    Thanks!

    Plugin Author PaoloBe

    (@paolobe)

    9 years, 12 months ago

    As said, you can also move the txt file, which was published, from “posted” folder to the default one (Apps/Post_via_Drop box), it’s pretty straightforward.

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