[wp-pro] WP plugin - serving page-specific blurbs outside of the loop

[Miroslav Chodak]

Hi everyone,

I am looking for bids to develop a WP plugin for my blogs that would 
display page-specific, styled content outside of the loop.

For example, I will want an introduction blurb on the home page (just 
before the section with posts/excerpts). Also, I will want a 
category-specific blurb (different from category_description(), which 
I am using for META description). Finally, I might want to add 
additional information before and/or after individual Pages or Posts, 
on a per-ID basis.

It would be important that the blurbs are fully style-able with HTML 
and CSS and it should be easy for my registered Authors to 
create/publish such blurbs (ideally, via the built-in rich-text 
editor, or a custom editor built into the plugin). Finally, it would 
be essential that the plugin automatically recognizes when a page has 
blurb(s) associated with it and serve it accordingly, without the 
need to reference specific association from the template (so, 
something along the lines of is_category(6) wouldn't work for me).

Here's how I imagine the plugin to work...

ADMIN

1. Inserts a call to function into the template files and uploads 
them to the server. One template file could contain more than one 
call to function.

2. Proceeds to write an unlimited number of blurbs (either using the 
built-in rich-text editor, or a custom-built one that comes with the plugin).

3. Chooses how the blurb should be formatted by selecting a blurb 
template from a template library (e.g.: blurb_header, blurb_footer, 
blurb_category_2columns, etc.).

4. Creates an association between the blurb and a specific page, 
whether it's one of the index pages, post, or Page (one way to create 
an association like this might be to use the blurb's slug name; for 
example: blurb-category-uncategorized, blurb-home, blurb-home-paged, 
blurb-post-123, etc.).


VISITOR

a. Requests a URL.

b. The plugin will check whether the URL is associated with any of the blurbs.

c. If yes, it pulls the contents of the blurb out of the database, 
inserts it in place of the call to function and formats it according 
to the blurb template assigned to it.

d. The page, including the blurb, is then served to the visitor.

There are three challenges that I see here. One is to allow blurbs to 
be build with the rich-text editor to make it easy for newbies to 
style the blurbs. Another, is to pull blurb contents out of the 
database and serve it outside of the loop. Finally, it's to create 
functioning associations between the blurbs and the blog pages 
without the need to code the template files for each specific occurrence.


If you think you can do this, please let me know how would you 
approach this, your estimated time to completion and your budget.

Looking forward to hear from you!

Best wishes,
Miroslav