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WP or PHP script - repository of "articles" -- seeking advice/strategy/methodology/workflow
we have the need for various parts of an organization to post "articles"
(could be just a paragraph, or several pages)
for the purposes of posting in an archive (from which then the others can copy these articles to use).
It's similar to an RSS feed, sorta.
What is a good technique for allowing members to post articles (with categories), and then
have them be viewable (by category, by most recent) for copying and re-usage.
i don't really want to spend the time to create a database application to do this.
posting in a (fake) blog in WP and then using an RSS feed plugin isn't very efficient/slick.
best would be if it's "housed" within WP, but can be any script.
display of the repository titles/summary (RSS-like) is important for quick viewing to see
what is of (re)use
any ideas? tools?
thanks!
(could be just a paragraph, or several pages)
for the purposes of posting in an archive (from which then the others can copy these articles to use).
It's similar to an RSS feed, sorta.
What is a good technique for allowing members to post articles (with categories), and then
have them be viewable (by category, by most recent) for copying and re-usage.
i don't really want to spend the time to create a database application to do this.
posting in a (fake) blog in WP and then using an RSS feed plugin isn't very efficient/slick.
best would be if it's "housed" within WP, but can be any script.
display of the repository titles/summary (RSS-like) is important for quick viewing to see
what is of (re)use
any ideas? tools?
thanks!
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Look into the plugins SearchWP and FacetWP. Between them, you can build the custom search interface you are seeking.
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be able to select a category or do a search for resulting "articles"
and the resulting citation list would display with clickable title/summaries.
a site i found uses this static approach to make a table containing cells that display
the last few recent "posts", but this is not selectable viewing. it uses a shortcode like the following for each category.
[better-rss feed="http://worcesterago.org/category/blog-members/feed" items=4 show_date=1]
what i'm after is an interface to search or select categories to display
the results as clickable snippets, much like a search engine.
best would be to have the title clickable to [SHOW/HIDE] so that it's easy to poke around without leaving the page.