Using WP for article management?

  • Hi, superhappy about WP, it’s fantastic. It fits neatly into my own PHP website.

    Next thing I need is a way to handle the editing, commenting and categorization of articles that I write on various subjects. I was about to mix something up myself, but thought that I might just need to hack WP a bit to use it for this. I’ve not looked into the code (much, except for embedding it into my site), so I’m not sure where to look or what would be needed, but I did have some thoughts on the matter.

    It might be as simple as somehow ‘tagging’ the categories so that some are for the blog, and some for articles, and parsing the category list for each page. Then calling WP with a special GET parameter to indicate the tag. But I’m not sure what other parts of WP might get mixed up and need to get segmented in the same way.

    Any thoughts on this?

    Cheers,
    G.

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  • There have been a lot of discussions on this. Do a search in google or this forum for CMS, Content Management System, and website. There are tons of wonderful and helpful information to answer your specific questions.

    I’m doing this myself, with nothing public to show yet, and the only real tip I can give you it to think a little outside of the HTML box. Instead of forcing the program to do what you want, try to get it to do what it does and you make the changes to adapt to it, instead of making it adapt to you.

    It is amazingly powerful and once you get familiar with it, the process is easy. Just let it take time and read EVERYTHING 4 times over that you find on how to make WP become a CMS. There’s a lot to absorb.

    Thread Starter geddeth

    (@geddeth)

    Thanks, Lorelle, for that information.

    I’ve used the GET parameter category_name and the list_cats() function to divide my content into two main categories, Weblog and Articles. Now I’m trying to figure out how to have these two shown from different directories (https://site.com/news/ and https://site.com/articles).

    I should say that I’m using WP from CVS, so I’ve moved that part of the discussion to the beta forums.

    I’ve seen this before and it requires a complicated recode of wordpress. Well, I guess it depends on how detailed you want to make the system. I was about to do it until I discussed it with Andy. In conjuction with his free bulletin board classified site he’s running a “open source” alternative news site where anyone can publish newsworthy articles. He did a great job but said for his purposes wp was tough to work with. Still a really cool site! https://citizenreporters.plugstar.com

    One (quite) easy way to do this: Use one category for your articles and configure WP to not display categories belonging to that category in the blog. Than add a hierarchical menu to your page with links to these articles. You will still have a blog (which shows up all postings not in that article-category) and parallel to that you have a set of postings (content articles) accessible only via the menu.

    Not long ago I started to wrap up all of this into a plugin, but got distracted by Real Work.

    Get undistracted! please.

    I’ll add my request to that as well.

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