Xander

Take this simple case: most people coming to my site are going to have no idea what the hell any of these formats are, what syndication is, and what to do with it all. It seems much less confusing if one were to simply focus on one, present it clearly in the pertinent areas, and leave the rest in some corner for people who know what they’re doing.

Any thoughts on this one?

DIY solution, hack into edit.php and fiddle with how the drafts are displayed. After many searches, this is what I ended up doing. Now I display my drafts by major category, alphabetacized. It is much easier to navigate and pick through the various pieces I am in the process of researching/cleaning up.

The simple approach is to copy the existing drafts/otherdrafts area, and create a custom function such as:

function getdrafts1() {
global $wpdb;
$query = "SELECT ID, post_title FROM $wpdb->posts, $wpdb->post2cat c WHERE post_status = 'draft' AND ID = c.post_id AND c.category_id = '6' ORDER BY post_title ASC";
return $wpdb->get_results( $query );
}

$drafts1 = getdrafts1();

In this case, I am plucking all of the posts in category “6” for display. It seems to work well enough for now, but keep in mind that any edits to your core files in the admin area may be overwritten when you upgrade. Alas, I did not see a hook in this area to make this a plugin, but all I wanted was something quick and dirty anyway.

This post might also give you some ideas on how to manage your drafts:
https://pascal.vanhecke.info/2006/01/29/managing-draft-posts/

Internet sleuthing leads me here:
https://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:CV0gS8A4z1YJ:www.neato.co.nz/archives/2006/07/12/ultimate-tag-warrior-314/+utw+do_feed&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=3

Apparently there is some kind of solution, but everything is coming up 404.

I updated to the newest version of UTW, which supposedly fixes the issue… maybe so, because I do get a feed–but the feed is my main feed, not tag specific!

There is never any shortage of plugins kicking around; what is lacking is real user experiences, idle opinion, and such things.

I ended up trying WP-shortstats (which didn’t work at all) then moved on to WP-slimstats, which had a buggy install but eventually worked… I will report back when I have had more experience with it.

Very useful; thanks!

Well, that settles that ??

Informative, but no, as it turns out. Here’s an example… I have a review of an album by an artist:

Krüger & Coyle

In some places (i.e. my tribe.net profile), this shows up as:

Kr??ger & Coyle

Any idea why? I am starting to figure that this isn’t any kind of WordPress problem, but if I can tweak it at the source so my content displays properly wherever it may be syndicated, that would be ideal.

Interesting idea. Anyone using it?

Try some plugins for dealing with excerpts – I believe there are a few for customization of output.

So from the roadmap it looks like there will be a 2.0.5? I suppose 2.1 is still fairly far off then…

Thanks for posting up that link! I found a way to get this working quite well.

I adapted this solution to do something else entirely: select posts from a given category based on two seperate meta field values. I have a list of reviews on my site that I wanted to display by “Year” AND “Rating” but the nature of the postmeta table made this seem impossible… eventually, I put this query together:

SELECT wposts.* FROM $wpdb->posts wposts, $wpdb->postmeta wpostmeta, $wpdb->post2cat wpost2cat WHERE wposts.ID = wpostmeta.post_id AND wposts.ID = wpost2cat.post_id AND wpost2cat.category_id = '6' AND wposts.ID IN (SELECT wposts.ID FROM $wpdb->posts wposts, $wpdb->postmeta wpostmeta WHERE wposts.ID = wpostmeta.post_id AND wpostmeta.meta_key = 'Rating' AND wpostmeta.meta_value > '7') AND wpostmeta.meta_key = 'Year' AND wpostmeta.meta_value >= '2002' AND wposts.post_status = 'publish' AND wposts.post_date < NOW() ORDER BY wposts.post_title ASC

The subquery allowed me to select posts that were for releases that came out after the year 2002 with a rating higher than 7, for example. Maybe this technique would be of use to someone else out there. Anyway, thanks for the tip on this one!

Good old IRC ??

I understand 100% that this is all volunteer-driven, open source, etc. I’m not being demanding – I’m just wondering if there’s another community out there better suited to how deeply I’m getting into customizing my WP. It isn’t that my questions aren’t being answered on my schedule or time frame; I’m not looking for “support” per se. Many open source software projects have core support forums such as these (good for basic questions and common pitfalls), and peripheral communities for hacking and customization. This is why I am asking.

If all my questions on a hypothetical Google support forum were met with silence or snarky responses, then yes, I probably would investigate some kind of alternative.