Review books on buddypress

  • pakaste

    (@pakaste)


    8 years, 1 month ago

    I’m trying to create a service where users can post reviews of books they have read to groups. Currently running BuddyPress with Social Articles to accomplish this, however this only gives the ability to write individual reviews.

    So now if a users wants to see what others think about a certain book, they need to know which users have reviewed that book. It would be nice if it would automatically create a “book” and gather all the individual reviews under that, so that users could easily see what others think about that book. Is this technically possible with WordPress? If it is, does it require lots of custom code?

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    8 years, 1 month ago

    Just about anything is possible if you have adequate coding resources to develop it. You shouldn’t have to go to those lengths though. I don’t know much about BuddyPress, but the data organization you are looking for should be achievable with the default post schema offered by WP out of the box.

    For example, The “book” could be a post and user reviews could actually be managed by the comment system. Or people could write reviews as posts which are assigned a category or tag for whatever book they are reviewing. Or if you use pages instead of posts for the “book”, users could add reviews as child pages. Anyone of these schemes allow all reviews for a particular book to be collected and displayed on one page (or series of pages). If your site already uses posts or pages for other purposes, you can create a custom post type specifically for books and/or reviews.

    I don’t see the basic WP data schema as any kind of hindrance. However, your theme may not present the data the way you would like. For example, if you chose the post/comments schema, your theme would display reviews as though they were still comments. You would need to alter some theme templates in order to present the reviews as reviews and not as comments.

    There is likely some custom coding required to accomplish this, but not “lots”. There are a number of details to work out, but it doesn’t seem insurmountable.

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