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  • Thread Starter jennylynneh

    (@jennylynneh)

    I used CSV Export Plugin to download all of the posts.

    That site was accomplished by purchased software.

    You could try the WP Nominate theme for something similar.

    I have been attempting something closer to a mix between delicious, mini-blogs and buddypress for 2 months with quite a bit of failure myself.

    Thread Starter jennylynneh

    (@jennylynneh)

    After giving the whole thing more thought — gotta love the pitch dark commute now that Daylight Savings is over — I can see the benefits of using separate taxonomies for the Fic Author and the Bookmark URL.

    A Fic Author can be associated with more than one story and, thus, more than one URL. As such, it needs to be a one-to-many functional field. Fic Authors already in the list can be selected or a new one can be added.

    Making a Bookmark URL its own taxonomy allows post authors to each assign his or her own variation of the Title (even though my inner standardization nerd is balking at that) — making it more meaningful or correct or whatever. It makes the actual bookmark more flexible, more searchable.

    Though I wonder if a function can be written so when a post author uses a bookmarklet on his or her browser on a website, the URL can check the existing posts for a Title and Fic Author and “suggest” one at random or failing to find one, pull in that information the way delicious does?

    J.

    Thread Starter jennylynneh

    (@jennylynneh)

    I thought taxonomy is more like a tag or a category, something for organizing, flagging, sorting or grouping. See how confused I am about these structures?

    I’ve actually been putting more thought to how I think these bookmarks should work — I’m a programmer, just not familiar with WordPress’ terminology, database structure, or even programming standards. (This might be too mainstream for me. :P)

    So, what you’re saying is a post is not, in fact, a “record” at all, which is how I think of it.

    I “assumed” a record contained:

    • post id
    • post title
    • post author
    • excerpt
    • content
    • categories
    • tags
    • status
    • post date
    • custom fields
    • etc

    Thus, in my mind, a custom post_type, would be the creation of a variant “record” such as:

    bookmark_link

    • post id
    • post title
    • bookmark url
    • bookmark author
    • post date
    • categories
    • tags
    • status
    • fav_count
    • bookmark_count
    • rec_count
    • to_read_count
    • custom fields
    • etc

    Then have a second post_type perhaps which is
    bookmark

    • post_id
    • parent_post_id
    • post author
    • content (summary)
    • rec/review
    • categories
    • tags
    • status
    • favorite_flag
    • to_read_flag
    • rec_flag_
    • custom fields
    • etc

    or I’m thinking about it all wrong…

    I would love to talk to you about how you’ve done this and see the sites you’ve done. I’ve been working on this for over a month trying to work out how to handle this. (And I’d really rather be writing in my spare time…in fact I’m going to miss my deadline if I keep going this way. :P)

    J

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