You don’t even need structured blogging for this. Not really. Here’s some hints on ways to emulate kottke’s quick and dirty reviews:
– use a category called “Movies”. Possibly keep it off the home page.
– for each post in Movies, have a meta field called “rating”. use a number from 1-100.
– have a custom category template for Movies. Could have it query and list ALL posts in the category. The template is stripped-down, basically showing:
the_title meta(“rating”)
the_excerpt
– to mimic his colored ratings, simply add a class around the rating, based on the score. something like:
$rating = intval(get_post_meta($postID, $what, false);
if (!$rating )
echo “none”;
else
{
$class = “good”;
if ($rating<40) $class = “bad”;
else if ($rating<75) $class = “okay”;
echo ‘<span class=”‘.$class.'”>’.$rating.'</span>’;
}
… then use CSS to style the span .good as green, span .bad as red, and span .okay as gold/tan…
– you’d need a custom single template as well. do another get_the_meta, and echo $rating.”/100″;
… just some thoughts. ??
-d
