Is there a way to have a ‘mood’ and ‘music’ fi

I am working on creating a minimally invasive mood/music plugin for 1.2
One thing no one mentioned here is that you will need to hack the index.php file in order to display the mood and music on the post.
Even then, I don’t think the data will display nicely like in LiveJournal. As a user of both LJ and WP I am definitely going to get this working using the meta data. For now at least, if you use the following Custom Meta Data key names ‘unt_current_music’ for music and ‘unt_current_mood’ for the mood, it should be compatible with my plugin when I am done with it (no promises, but that is the plan ??
(I couldn’t double check what I stated above as my web server apparently just went down, I will verify the above, make corrections and delete this disclaimer as soon as it is back up)

Hmmm …. I’d not say one php statement is hacking exactly, and by the use of CSS, each user can display what they want as they want it to.
That said, the more plugins we all have, the better ??

See this post https://www.ads-software.com/support/4/6109 for why even adding one line to the index.php is a generally bad thing.
Also, you still need a plugin to deal with the formatting because the custom meta data system doesn’t have much in the way of formatting the text or how it displays. All you have is a CSS style you can change. But what if you wanted to add a mood icon like on LJ, I don’t think you could do it without a plugin. Besides, Unordered Lists are ugly ??

I wrote a plugin for sidebar stats that are updated through an admin function (menu addon), then you add <?php mystats('*classname*'); ?> to the index.php template. It pulls the info off of a sql database, but its for the general sidebar, not for each generic post. And the music is pulled dynamically off of a kung-tunes log that is added to the sql database as well (for mac only, sorry…)
You can see what I’m talking about @ https://blog.atchb.com. (of course thats not the layout/site, I’m still working on setting up templates, and an article add-on, so it will be a few days).
*btw – I know nothing about php, I did this reverse engineering another plugin, the code isn’t that pretty, but it works and is small as possible

You could probably add your sidebar stuff by filter the ‘list_cats’ if you wanted to. I wish there were more filter hooks to achieve this sort of thing without having to edit index.php.

unteins: that sounds interesting (your plugin). Haven’t had much time to look into it, but I did notice that the meta-info doesn’t appear by default when listed. When do you plan on releasing your plugin?

Well, I could release semi-crippled one as soon as I can get access to my webserver again.
I will do the quick version to display the music and mood stuff based on the custom meta keys asap. I hope to be able to vastly improve the interface to it in the future since right now the interface is too manual for my taste.
Let me see what I can do when I get back into my webserver…

Hello, original poster here (Anonymous) – I thought it was about time I got a username after all these posts. Sounds interesting unteins, I look forward to your release. Mostly my friend just wants it to be as simple as possible once installed, so I may wait until it is ‘less manual’ before I tell him about it.

georgianlady – basic cut & paste question here – for your site, how did you get the following to format with your meta data:
* no bullet points before the meta keys
* meta info is one line directly below post informatio — not what looks like 1 paragraph in the default code from idahocline
* key values are different colors
i am not sure if this involves modification of the my-hacks.php file, the index.php, or the wp-layout.css….any suggestions are welcome!

addendum — georgianlady doesn’t have to be the only one to answer my question if it’s an easy one ?? i won’t reject anyone’s constructive comments. ??