View categories by user selection

  • c9dd

    (@c9dd)


    17 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    OK first off I’m not sure if this plugin exists, so if you know of something please can you direct me in the right direction. If not does anyone know how to do this…

    The situation.
    A “User” (not registered, just a stumble on viewer of the site) goes in to the blog and see the “General” category. In this view they can check boxes that relate to categories they would like to read.

    So maybe out of;

    • News
    • Sport
    • Music
    • Games

    They might check: News & Sport.
    This would then only show posts from these categories and nothing else.

    Does this exist? is is a plugin? or is it something I can manualy code (with very simple knowledge of php)?

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  • Thread Starter c9dd

    (@c9dd)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    Can anyone help?

    alekken

    (@alekken)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    *bump*

    This functionality would be very useful. Anyone?

    s_ha_dum

    (@apljdi)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    This is a kind of interesting idea.

    A couple of quick thoughts. With registered users you could store checked categories in wp_usermeta and use, maybe, Query Posts to limit the returns.

    With users that are not logged in you’d have to use $_SESSION or a cookie to store the checked data, or pass it along in the $_GET string. You’d still use Query Posts to limit the returns.

    I think this is very do-able, and probably not too hard, but I don’t time right now. Sigh… yet another thing on my list.

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