Markered post?
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Hi,
I’ve been looking through the forum and haven’t found an ansewer to this, maybe I am not using the correct terminology. What I want to do is the following, I am going to setup an index of sorts where people can find out who the contributors of my blog are, what they’re involved in etc. Once a new post is made, I want to make the contibutor’s name a link that will then go to the index page and center on this person’s name so users can see their information. I’ve been told this is a called markered indexing. Again, I’v looked, and haven’t found anything regarding this topic.
Can someone help point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
Victor
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If you create a separate Category for each Contributor’s name and that Category is assigned to all their posts then clicking the Category (name) in the Categories widget will result in a page displaying all of their posts. Will that suit your purpose?
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/ -
That would be way too cumbersome. I would have to potentially setup 100 categories.
In any event, that’s for the suggestion.
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You can do it by author username. The following will bring up all posts by that author.
http://blogname.wordpress.com/author/authorusername/
The “authorusername” is not their display name, but their actual account username.
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That won’t work either, I will be the only author. Each post will pertain to multiple people’s comments regarding a specific subject. What I want to do is have something similar to this, I will display a comment and use the persons name will be setup as a hyper link:
Mr. X – That was really a defining moment
Mr. Z – I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news.
The link will take a viewer of the site to a page that will work as an index which will list everyone involved. By clicking on Mr. X’s name the index page will appear focused on their name. Thus allowing users to see all of the information assigned to Mr. X without haveing to scroll through the index and find the person they have selected.
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When you said “contributors” I was thinking people actually writing posts on your blog, not commenters.
Blogs are post-focused and aren’t set to sort by comments made on posts or pages.
This could be done with the self-hosted version but I’ve never seen any plugins of this nature. You would most likely have to hire a developer (unless you are really good with PHP scripting) to create a plugin as it is definitely not a function built into wordpress. Getting a plugin made to do that might cost anywhere from a few hundred to as much as a couple thousand dollars. I don’t know what all would be involved.
Alternately you can do it all manually in a page, but if you get a lot of comments, that will be a lot of work to continually catalog and update.
The issue is, comments have to be taken in context to the post or page they were made on, and in relation to the other comments on that page or post since many times that relationship is critical. Taking the comment out of its context will render it meaningless.
Perhaps I’m missing the point here.
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And by the way in case I wasn’t clear, this cannot be done at wordpress.COM. You woul have to self-host a wordpress blog on a third-party hosting service such as godaddy, bluehost, etc., and that will cost you, all things considered, $10 to $25 per month depending on storage and bandwidth requirements.
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@fusionsonica
It’s my opinion that what your are describing is wiki functionality and not a blog at all. Wikis allow anyone to post. You can get free wikis on the internet.
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