#wordpress 2024-03-17

2024-03-17 UTC
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[David_Peach] Well I'm happy to help out if that helps.
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GWG I did have some thoughts on what I could do in this area.
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GWG I think maybe the plugin dependencies thing might allow for breaking up redundant functionality
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GWG [David_Peach]: What do you like about Post Kinds?
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[David_Peach] From a users perspective I love the parsing of external sites when popping url in to response box. IMDb was a nice surprise - wasn't sure if it would work but it did a charm.
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[David_Peach] I've not dug into code yet.
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GWG [David_Peach]: That's the Parse This library. It could backend anything
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GWG Trying to decide if Plugin Dependencies might convince me to publish Parse This to the repository, maybe with some extra functionality
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[contact898] I really like the parsing. I also really like the formatting of blog posts according to kind, the little 💙 Liked Title by This person (http://website.org) as a first line of the poet
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[contact898] post*
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[contact898] + the fact that it (usually) sends the right webmention type to the mentioned website for like and replies
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[contact898] + the neat little categories it creates (I've basically replaced categories with kinds)
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GWG Any suggestions for improvement?
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[contact898] one
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[contact898] i'd love to have feeds for several types at once
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[contact898] specifically for articles/notes vs check-in/read/watch vs like/reply, so that people don't need to followall my likes and replies if they're interested in my own content
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[contact898] it's fairly minor, though
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GWG That exists already
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GWG /kind/article,note/feed I believe
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[contact898] omg
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[contact898] thank you!!
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GWG Can I create archives for each kind?
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GWG Post Kinds automatically handles the display of archives of individual types. So to view all the posts marked as "note", for example, one could visit the URL http://www.YOURSITE.COM/kind/note/. Simply replace YOURSITE.COM with your particular site name and the particular post kind name to access the others.
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GWG You can also add the date /kind/note/2018/12/24 to see date-based archives.
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GWG For archives if you add exclude_kind as a query variable it will exclude specific kinds from the query ?exclude=kind&exclude_terms=note. You can also do this as /exclude/kind/note,checkin as it accepts multiple values
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GWG There is also a special photo photo included, using ?kind_photos=1 or /photos or /photos/yyyy or /photos/yyyy/mm or /photos/kind/note or any other taxonomy. This will use the photo enhancements introduced in 3.4.0 to only show photos from all types of posts.
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GWG Add 'food' as alias for eat,drink. Example /kind/food
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GWG Add 'reaction' as alias for bookmark,repost,like,favorite
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GWG Add 'media' as alias for watch,listen,play,read posts.
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starrwulfe I'd like it to link to tags/categories as an option as well. For example, I could add the category "micro" "reply" for replies and a tag "nowplaying" for music listens automatically. Since my blog also federates into the fediverse, the appropriate hashtag gets added. Categories are the top level taxonomy for me, and they dictate post templates which is another reason why this would be great for me if possible.
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GWG I'm still confused about that. Kind is a taxonomy. So, you want a taxonomy linked to another taxonomy?
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starrwulfe Kind is an added taxonomy on top of the default Wordpress taxonomies. I've already linked tags and categories to fire off certain events or show certain templates so I'd like the kinds taxonomes to be able to also link its posts to the correct category and tag without me doing it manually is all.
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GWG I'm willing to try and do something, but I'm trying to figure out what I would do.
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GWG Would a hook you could add to work?
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starrwulfe Possibly. I need to research it, but what I was thinking was within the plugin options, there could be a matrix that could list the kind and the existing category and tag to assign the resulting posts under it.
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starrwulfe I'm just throwing that out there; not sure if that can even be done really but that's the image I see
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GWG It might be a bit niche for me to do your full vision, but I'll think about what I can do to help
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GWG I remember a few other tag/category options people asked for, may check the issues
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starrwulfe In my case, I moved from another system back to Wordpress and had already set up my own taxonomy so I do this to keep them playing nice together. NBD if it can't be done, just a nice-to-have option
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starrwulfe Really the best option is to give the user the abilty to make their own category/tag assignments for each kind IMHO. Allows the greatest flexibility
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GWG As I said, I just can't picture a simple way to do that. But I'll keep thinking
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GWG Maybe open an issue on the Github repo and people will chime in.
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