Linking to large numbers of external html files

  • I run a WordPress-powered website for a radio controlled car club. Each week, the track timing software spits out all the evening’s race results in individual html files, around 20-30 for the night.

    The club want these on the website each week, as a record of all results. The html files themselves are very small, only about 1kb each, but I’m scratching my head as to how to go about adding them with the least amount of manual work possible.

    I know I could add them to a post or a page using the media manager, but this will clog up the database in no time, and is quite time consuming. Is there a plugin to handle this sort of thing? Perhaps something like Next Gen Gallery, but for html files that can be grouped together like galleries/albums?

    Thanks in advance

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  • See if this might be something you would consider. Mmm Simple File List Instead of inserting the actual files (via iframe, embed, separate pages,etc..) each week, you might be able to simply upload them to a directory (or weekly directories) and list them on a page of your choosing. The links would open in their own tab or window and allow viewing of the individual .html page result itself.

    (I have no affiliation with the plugin. I’ve just used similar file listing solutions in the past that have made my task a whole lot easier!)

    WordPress is good a huge databases, so there is no danger of clogging up the database, other than the possibility you are running on a web host with a very low limit on database size.

    But, if it were me, and I was serving a bunch of geeks (not meant as an insult, but radio-controlled car club makes geek a fair guess), I would experiment with the following concept: see if you can make a subdirectory/folder visible, so you can go there with a browser and see the contents as a list of file names and sub-subdirectories. Develop some good naming standards that everyone will understand for both sub-subdirectories and files. Create a sub-subdirectory for each evening, and put the 20-30 files in the appropriate sub-subdirectory.

    On a WordPress page, simply provide a link to the subdirectory with all the sub-subdirectories in it. And an explanation of your naming conventions so everyone knows how to navigate.

    Be sure to test it on all possible browsers, including mobile browsers, to be sure that this approach works before actually going forward with the idea.

    (wrote this before I say Clayton’s post; his is a very good idea, too)

    Thread Starter plinth

    (@plinth)

    Thanks guys, going to give the Simple File List plugin a try and see how that goes.

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