Tracy Maher

Thanks for responding, Maya. We tested this early in our development process and found that because we ingest news stories from the Associated Press, the plugin was trying to reorder the list of posts every time that a post came in. That created a huge amount of traffic on the database and caused us to get “Unable to Connect to the Database” errors. Does your plugin offer customization options that would allow us to exclude the categories of Associated Press posts?

Yes, that is exactly what we are trying to do. We are a local news station and need the ability to sort posts (news stories) by importance rather than chronologically. The most recent news story isn’t necessarily the most important, and we need to keep the biggest/most important stories at the top of our queue for our viewers. We aren’t able to modify the publish date on our stories because they need to accurately reflect the time they were posted. We have thousands of news stories (posts) in any given category, but really only need to be able to sort the most recent posts, generally speaking, e.g. a single day’s worth of posts, which may be 20-30 posts in any given category.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Tracy Maher.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Tracy Maher.