Ooo, you figured out a way to be able to include multiples of the same widget? I want info on that, for sure. I've been looking at Doncha's site-wide categories stuff and the 3 in 1 widget that goes with it, and I love that you can pull recent posts for a single category, but I'd love it more if you could pull posts from multiple categories. We have 7 or 8 "top level" categories/topics. I could see blogs within those topics wanting to pull posts from multiple categories.
For the blog topics thing, I created 2 tables - one to hold site-wide categories and one to hold blog/category relationships. When you sign up for a blog, you have to pick a category. There's a per-blog admin tool to change your category, and a site-wide admin tool to edit/add/delete categories. It disallows deletion of category "1" (whatever that may be - it defaults as "uncategorized"). And, if you delete another category at the site level it updates all blogs using that category back to catid "1." I'm not sure if that's the best way to handle it, but I didn't really think creating a whole site-admin interface for updating each blog sounded like a lot of fun, either. One of the reasons we're going this route is that we don't have a lot of faith in the whole "community driven" aspect of the tags and categories for posts. Maybe we're cynics, but we've seen far too many cases of people just barely wanting to come up with any content at all, let alone putting any thought into how to tag or categorize. By at least forcing a blog-level topic, we can try to put together some sort of portal to content. (Think we're boring all the CF peeps yet, or think we've just piqued their interest?) On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Crow T. Robot wrote: > Hellz yeah, any questions you have or anything like that, don't hesitate to > ask. We will likewise do the same. It may be taboo on this CF-based list, > so I'll send you an email off-list with my contact info (not this silly Crow > one). I'm so on board with this whole help-us-help-you-help-us open source > thing that it would be silly for me to not want to help anyone out who wants > to try and do the whole WP thing. It'd also be silly to not have someone > else that I can bounce questions off from. > > As far as the blog categorization thing, how do you have that working? > Where are you storing the metadata for the overall blog itself? Sounds > interesting, since we as a whole organization will end up having buttloads > of blogs, and it might be cool to categorize the blogs and have a Corporate > site where we aggregate all the blog topics together, sorted by blog topic, > or by somehow tagging blogs as a whole entity and displaying blog posts by > topic. Jerry - newswires could be completely automated if we thought about > this right, I think. > > One of the coolest things that Jerry and our team have brought to our table > is a way to give the end user ultimate control of the whole site's layout by > literally creating themes that are almost 100% made up of sidebars, styled > completely via CSS definitions, then giving our business units a bunch of > widgets that they can place into the sidebars as they see fit. Also a cool > thing - they can have as many instances of that widget all over the page > displaying different kinds of content. We're a newspaper-type organization, > so thinking just slightly out of the box got us one kickass CMS that is > free, very extendable, and user-friendly, on both the admin and public side. > > I kid about not liking PHP, but the pure and simple fact is that if that is > the right tool for the job (and since I believe the product is the awesomest > CMS tool out there, it is the right tool), then we are hurting ourselves if > we don't force ourselves to learn it. > > OK, I'll put my Wordpress Pompoms away for now. =) > > > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Deanna Schneider < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The one I'm working on was sort of half-written. It's a way to >> categorize the blog itself, by a topic area, and then a widget to show >> other blogs categorized with the same topic. We're going to write a >> theme, too, that takes the most recent posts from all the blogs from >> the various topics and creates a portal at the mother blog. Someone >> else had started doing the blog categories plug in, but it was written >> really poorly for what we want to do - storing the topic in the blog's >> options tables. So, you couldn't say, "get all blogs of topic X" >> without looping through all the blogs and then querying each topic >> table. Blech. >> >> It's been a crash course of a week, since I had no experience with >> PHP, or really with working with WPMU. But, I'm having a blast. I have >> a working plugin after a week's playing around, and now it just needs >> some polish. >> >> Good to know that there are others in the CF world that I can holler >> at if I get stuck, though. >> >> Oh, and consuming PHP via CF? I'm so out of touch with the latest CF >> features. We're still stuck on MX. Which is, of course, one of the >> reasons we're looking at other options. >> >> -d >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Crow T. Robot wrote: >> > I've been working (with Jerry) with WPMU for a little under a year now >> too. >> > I really really <3 WP as a CMS platform. It seems limitless the things >> that >> > you can do to extend the thing. And the best part, IMO, is that if you >> can >> > think of some kind of plugin or widget that you need, it most likely has >> > been written and is sitting out on the google machine, waitin for the >> takin. >> > >> > I am not 100% sure I am lovin php either, but hey, another tool in the >> > toolbox, right? >> > >> > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Deanna Schneider < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> wrote: >> > >> >> I'm in the middle of writing my first Wordpress MU plugin. And ya, I'm >> >> totally sucked into it. I love the whole plug in and widget >> >> architecture. I'm not sure I love PHP. But, I'm seriously digging >> >> WordPress MU. >> >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Jerry Johnson wrote: >> >> > I am a wordpress fanboy. >> >> > >> >> > If it were in a leotard, miniskirt and leg warmers, I'd marry it, >> >> > >> >> > (80 hours of 80s music on vh1 is burning into my brain.) >> >> > >> >> > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Vivec wrote: >> >> > >> >> >> Blogspot is Google Blogger? Didn't know that. >> >> >> >> >> >> I don't feel as though Google updates Blogger at all though, >> >> >> they don't seem to put any resources into it. >> >> >> >> >> >> For nearly two to three years now they have not offered a way to >> easily >> >> >> import >> >> >> Wordpress blog entries. >> >> >> >> >> >> Wordpress, on the other hand, can import just about any of the >> popular >> >> >> Blog formats, including google Blogger. >> >> >> The only thing about Blogger, is that it is Google and you can use >> >> >> Google AdWords. 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