Automation in Posting

  • My general goal is automation in updating my website. I have a landing page that features 1 photo per day and after that day, the picture essentially moves to another page where the remaining former pictures are located.

    To execute this, I’ve set up a static front page, which would have to be updated on a daily basis (hopefully a work-around!?). For the former photographs, I would use the blog to publish the posts on a preset schedule (from my understanding is possible?).

    I really want to have a post of the day and have all other pictures from the week located on another page, but don’t want the daily hassle of updating at a specific time.

    Any help/guidance in solving this automation issue would be really appreciated! Thanks!

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  • You want to use your blog posts index as your Front Page, not a Static Page.

    Posts are time-based. Pages are not.

    Simply leave your blog posts index as your Front Page, and change your reading settings to show 1 post per page. (Or, you can create a custom “front-page.php” template File, in which only the 1 most recent post is displayed.)

    Thread Starter ewbingham

    (@ewbingham)

    From your feedback and my understanding, do you think best solution is:

    1) For the landing page, create a custom “front-page.php” template file, that pulls the 1 most recent blog post.
    2) For the former pictures, use the blog page (allow overlap for the current day’s picture).

    Thoughts?

    The other issue is that I want text below the picture to be removed for the next day(deleting pricing detail). Is it possible to schedule a deletion of a post, and repost without that info? This would be done before the new day’s post.

    I think using a custom “front-page.php” template file is the way to go. You can put the pricing information in a custom field, and only output that custom field on “front-page.php”.

    No need to delete Posts, either. If you set your “front-page.php” only to show the most recent post, the rest will “fall back” (so to speak) to the archive template pages.

    Thread Starter ewbingham

    (@ewbingham)

    For the pricing information, I would be able to include that information in the initial blog post, yet it only be reflected in the front-page? The text (pricing detail) will change on a day-to-day basis, so I want to make sure it is linked/associated with the related picture.

    Thank you so much for your help!

    For the pricing information, I would be able to include that information in the initial blog post, yet it only be reflected in the front-page? The text (pricing detail) will change on a day-to-day basis, so I want to make sure it is linked/associated with the related picture.

    Yes. Just make the pricing information part of the metadata (i.e. a custom field) for each Post.

    Thread Starter ewbingham

    (@ewbingham)

    Do you have any suggestions for resources to execute this? Whether tutorials or contracted assistance?

    Your needs are a bit specific to point you to an appropriate tutorial. Although, you might find any of the tutorials on creating a theme sufficient if you are comfortable with programming with PHP.

    You can probably get this completed inexpensively by posting the project at wpquestions.com or jobs.wordpress.net

    Thread Starter ewbingham

    (@ewbingham)

    Thanks Chip and transom so much for your help!

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