[wp-hackers] Enhance WP to use page categories

[Paul Menard]

I'll third that. Look forward to seeing the tutorial.

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On Jan 24, 2007, at 1:40 PM, ryan fitzer wrote:

> Count me interested!
>
> Ryan
>
> On 1/24/07, Mike Purvis <mike at uwmike.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would implement this in terms of the hierarchy.
>>
>> You could a have a base page with a slug like "/private/" so that
>> pages like "/private/secrets" would be inaccessible. You'd just have
>> to have a plugin that ran at boot time and dumped you to the login
>> screen if you didn't have authorization to view the given stem.
>>
>> As for the question about static pages, it's fully possible to wrap
>> your theme around *any* content you like, even dynamic stuff, or
>> something you wouldn't want to enter through the editor. For example,
>> we have source code views that look like this:
>>
>> http://googlemapsbook.com/chapter6/onResize/ 
>> map_functions.js.source#l6-10
>>
>> If you strip off the ".source" portion, it displays a plain  
>> JavaScript
>> file sitting on the server. But ".source" funnels it into a Wordpress
>> plugin page that shows the arbitrary content---in this case,
>> prettily-rendered source code.
>>
>> If there's general interest in how to do this, I'd be happy to  
>> publish
>> a tutorial.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> On 1/21/07, Chris <chris.hearn01 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > Wordpress has expanded from a straight blog app. to include the  
>> very
>> > useful static pages etc. This seems to me (a newbie to  
>> Wordpress, but
>> > experienced in PHP/MySQL etc) to allow the opportunity to create
>> > complete web-sites which have a consistent theme throughout,  
>> many static
>> > pages, and _part_ of the site includes blog/news and comments  
>> etc. This
>> > would make Wordpress a really useful and more generic tool!
>> >
>> > However, it does not seem possible to categorize pages so that  
>> there is
>> > a "public view" accessible to all, and a "members" view, which  
>> might
>> > include the public view, but also show more restricted pages.
>> > In $wpdb the wp_posts.post_category is only used for posts at  
>> present
>> > (and in version 2.1???) - could it also be used for page  
>> categories?
>> > A solution might be to create categories for the static pages (e.g.
>> > public, members), and then give menus of pages based on status of
>> > logged-in/not logged in.(i.e. the page category)
>> >
>> > Has this already been done? Is there any change in 2.1 that  
>> would render
>> > this idea incompatible? (as I wish to implement it for a club  
>> website I
>> > am building)
>> > Thanks
>> > Chris
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