View user selected authors posts only?

  • I’m looking at setting up a site with both WP blog and PHPBB3 forum elements. I’m looking thru the WP plugins/widgets, but I’m not sure exactly what to search for. I would like to be able to allow the user to select the authors’ posts they see on the homepage. For example, my site could have authors from all over the US, but I want users to be able to filter out posts that might not be relevant to their area. Is there a mod someone can direct me to that’s capable of this?

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  • Thread Starter hornetnz

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    You could just let the WordPress native archiving ability handle this.

    Don’t be confused by what an archive is–it is just a generated display of your posts at that moment. You don’t do anything to create the archive, that’s an automatic thing WordPress does for you. Usually, archives are date, category, tag, or author, based.

    Access to archives is typically presented via links in a sidebar under an Archive (date based), Category, or Tag Cloud, headings. Widgets, or Template Tags such as wp_get_archives(), wp_list_categories(), wp_tag_cloud(), and wp_list_authors(), are the constructs used to present links to users to visit your various archives. The process of placing code in your Theme’s Templates is explained in Stepping Into Templates and Stepping Into Template Tags.

    Once a user clicks on a Category link in the sidebar, the display of those posts can be controlled by a Category Template. Other Templates, such as Author Templates, and Tag Templates, are available if you set them up. These Templates can be coded via Template Tags such as the_title(), the_content(), or the_excerpt(), to display just a post title, the full content of the post, or just an excerpt of the post.

    Also, it is important to understand the Template Hierarchy, as that is how WordPress determines what Template to use to render the posts for reading by your readers.

    If a user visits a Category archive, then clicks on a given post title in that Category archive, the display of that single post is again presented by another Template, and again, the Template Hierarchy determines what Template displays that single post. Finally, that single post Template can be coded to display just the title, the full post content, or an excerpt.

    Thread Starter hornetnz

    (@hornetnz)

    Thanks for the reply MichaelH. I think I see where you were going with your info. What I’m not understanding, or maybe didn’t make clear previously, is how to make it so the user saves what they want to see/not see. Instead of having them click on a category or author view link, I’d give them an options list of either authors or maybe states(categories). They can then checkmark the ones they want to see on the index page. Once they make these selections, it should save in the DB for next time they come to the site.

    Sorry, don’t know of a plugin that does that.

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