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latest in pluggins to create a blog directory by type

So I’ve searched a lot and go ’round in circles….

I have your blog-types pluggin. I need to create a blog directory.

I found a tutorial that counts on the list_all pluggin for blogs. Can’t find this anywhere. Is it all contained in the tag_posts/post_indexer group, which I will also use, but that is secondary at the moment.

Thanks for your help.

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:05:09
  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Well if that’s right, why not…

    – Use one of the sitewide tag solutions to manage the data

    – Instead of outputting the posts, build an array that lists just the blog name and the url of the blog.

    – Before adding the blog info to the array, check to see if it’s already in that array. If so, don’t add. If not, add.

    – Cache the data because it;s going to be a load.

    – Display the output.

    If you want to take the easy way out, skip the array building and just run the plugins like normal. Just don’t display the post data and run a trim on the url so that only the url fo the blog is used, not the full one for the post.

    Have to admit I never like the idea of pigeon holing blogs into a single category like most directory solutions I’ve seen do.