Archetyped

Made some good progress today. After going over several potential implementations of Sections on paper, I finally ended up with a solution that I think is the simplest. Also nice is that this solution does not require adding any tables to the Wordpress database. While I wouldn’t have a problem with that if the plugin necessitated it, it’s also nice to KISS every once and awhile

So far, testing out this implementation seems to be working pretty well. I’ve added a drop-down menu to the Add Post page to allow the post to be assigned to a Section. Once the post has been published, it is then viewable via /section_name/post_name

I’ve also decided to implement tagging (using Christine Davis’ Ultimate Tag Warrior 3) in lieu of categories simply because I find it faster to add tags to posts rather than categories. I also like the lack of hierarchy and the potential for tag intersections to drill down results.

Also, I’ve pretty much got my mod_rewrite rules setup for Apache.

So, all in all, a pretty productive Sunday afternoon!

I still have the task of getting Wordpress to spit out my desired URL’s without too much hackery (would very much like to have Wordpress’ own the_permalink() template tag to produce the goods to improve compatibility with other themes).

Also on my to do list:

• Refine display of Posts in their Section (Make it more template-oriented)
• Displaying Posts in a Section filtered by a tag (or tags) - ala /section_name/tag/photography+japan/

I’m currently building it as a plugin/theme just to speed development, but I’m hoping to get it all packaged into a nice plugin once I’ve got it all worked out.