#wordpress 2022-01-16

2022-01-16 UTC
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Zegnat Question: how would people use custom post types? Say I want to post my Wordle result every day, would you make that a custom post type?
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Zegnat is learning all the WP concepts
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petermolnar probably. You can use one of the nice plugins to define custom post types, or go hardcore, and do it in code
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Zegnat Looking at different plugins for it now
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petermolnar doing it from code, eg. plugins.php is usually a lot faster
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Zegnat Docs link?
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GWG I took a different approach to it
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GWG I decided that h-entry equalled the standard post type.
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GWG So, if I did h-event or h-review, that would be a separate post type, but not reply, or such
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Zegnat Sure. But basically everything will be an h-entry in mf2 terms.
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Zegnat I am just wondering if, posting a Wordle restult post every day, that should use just basic WP post, or be sorted in its own post type.
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Zegnat (Also looking into if post types will make it easier for me to post them or not.)
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GWG Zegnat: Looking forward to hearing about a fresh approach
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GWG When I do micropub incoming, I use PTD to set a taxonomy, which allows me to display specific posts in an archive. It is rechecked on update
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GWG I'm still playing with bookmarks this weekend
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GWG I'm trying to modernize the old link system with everything they might have given it if they hadn't disabled it
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petermolnar Zegnat: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/register_post_type/
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Zegnat That feels like it is way more than I need ...
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GWG How so
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Zegnat Mmm. Maybe it isn’t.
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Zegnat In reality I am thinking post types the way Tumblr thinks post types.
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Zegnat The fact that I need to register post types for their own menu items etc feels like a lot of overhead on WP side. But on another read a lot of that seems optional? So I just need to try it out.
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GWG Zegnat: You can see why I went another way
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Zegnat Maybe the route I should go is to create a Wordle Gutenburg block. And just stick to normal posts only. I can then always sort by adding a category/tag or something. Mmmm 🤔
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Zegnat I just manual until it hurted it, but this will soon hurt, I think. Basically I wanted to generate a post like this, but just by filling in my guesses and not by hand-crafting HTML: https://blog.fraterman.se/?p=5
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GWG I'm too lazy for manual till it hurts
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Zegnat Was a lot faster than either: a/ creating a new post type with its own interface for entering post contents, or b/ setup a node.js development environment to create a block
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Zegnat Although I am tempted to do the latter for this
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GWG One time versus every time
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Zegnat But the whole idea was to lessen the effort between wanting to post something and posting it ;)
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sknebel c) write a micropub client that generates that html ;)
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Zegnat That is a definite no :P
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Zegnat Oh. Wow. WordPress has already managed to break itself. https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ati5c5SBZqZxg1Pr3_eP8gHAQvJX?e=CuM1i0
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[tw2113_Slack_] post formats would be more akin to Tumblr
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[tw2113_Slack_] not post types
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