Need functions! Ask for help and/or ideas for general function design
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Hello people,
I’m makin’ my own blog, and I need some missing functions or plugins, hope you can help or advice me.
Sorry in advance for the extreme length of my post, but I like to be precise, maybe some answers will help others.— A little background —
I’m new to bloggin’ (but not website making), and I must confess, I’m not a programmer neither (even if I know a little how it does work, and some HTML).
In fact, I’m a graphical designer, and I’d like to have a personal blog featuring some functionalities I haven’t seen until now.
After a lot of searches, I’m OK to say that WordPress is the nearest to my needs, but still “limited” for my needs with its unique “category” and “Tags”.
PS: My blog will be hosted at my own with my own design template (already finished), so no problems for me to edit CSS or PHP.
—————————Ok, go to facts now:
My 3 needs:
1) A multilingual blog: not a blog translated into many languages, but my posts de generally have multiple languages on them (not always the same, in ex. En and Kr, Jp and Fr … and so), so, i need to “tag” posts with the adequate languages present in (I need people to have flags, so, when they click on the Japanese flag for example, only posts featuring the adequate language will show).2) A two sections blog: one for Pros, and another one that will list all my posts (in fact, I still can use “Main” for general purpose, but I need a “page” that will only list selected posts).
3) A cross-over categories or hierarchical tags (or category dependant tags): For example, I would have some “main” categories, two of them “Design” and “Software”, a sub category (or tag) would be “Silverlight” … when I’ll have a post tagged “Silverlight”, I’d like this post to show if the visitor clicks any of the two categories above.
This will also help displaying the right posts in adequate pages (if we are on the “Pro” page and hit “MicroSoft” tag, it wouldn’t display posts with this tag from “Main” page … this is like an “And” function for tags).Is this possible? Does a Hack, code or plugin even exist?
I’ve searched a little to see, here is what I’ve found:
1) Multiple languages: Xili’s plugins.
Cons: This would be OK only If the full blog was translated into many languages, which isn’t my case, I just need to “list” posts featuring the adequate language (which can be done using categories or tags, but I need categories for other things, and I’d like to avoid having billions of tags under every post).1) Flags for languages: Can be done with a plugin using images for tags.
Cons: Adds an (or multiple) extra tags to posts.2) Two section blog: Can be done for example by using the “Inline Posts” plugin.
Cons: For this one, it’s OK, I just wonder if there is an easier way, such as a hack for dashboard to have, like for categories, a “check box” for languages (no need to display the “language” tag or flag on the posts, it would be great to have this as internal data, like an ID … but no problems if I have to display it).3) Cross over categories, hierarchical tags or category dependant tags: NOTHING FOUND.
Here it is, those were my questions, I hope some of you people could help me find a solution, or propose another way of work, or design idea to reach my needs … As I don’t know every single WordPress plugin, maybe my a solution already exists.
Thank you.PS: I’ve just created a “test” blog, with 3 posts, pages, categories and tags … this can give you a visual idea of what I want to say.
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We need a link to your blog to give accurate answers.
We can not use plug ins here at wordpress.com. If your host is not wordpres.com, you need to seek help at wordpress.ORG.
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1
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Hello,
First, thank you for answer and interest.
Then, for my blog, I’m sorry, when submitting the post, it was selected in the field “which blog you need support for” (or something like that).
Even my developed blog will be hosted on a personal server, I’ve created a “test” (with no private theme) here, and here it is : http://einho.wordpress.com/Yes, we can’t use plugins, but, we can edit CSS/PHP if we upgrade, no? (Question)
If yes, and someone helps with an example code, I’ll just put it into my local WordPress, is ok with rules? Or I have to post into wordpress.org?Thank you very much for answers.
Sincerely
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You cannot edit or access PHP at WordPress.com. If you purchase the CSS upgrade, then you can edit CSS of existing themes or build something on the “empty” theme of Sandbox. You can’t just paste in CSS from elsewhere and expect it to work, nor can you edit themes to add functionality.
Just use categories and/or tags to list languages, but be aware that using more than one ALPHABET on a blog is a problem, and you may be reduced to using Jpegs.
If you use more than about 12 categories and/or tags per post, you risk being deleted from the global tag and category pages, which is a HUGE deal. You don’t want it, trust me.
The two-section blog is not doable at WP.com; you would need to separate blogs, linked together via a text widget or landing page. Or perhaps what you want is local category pages, in which case just put the Category widget in your sidebar.
I’m not really sure what you mean with the third question. Some themes have hierarchical categories; is that what you’re looking for?
In NO CASE can you hack a theme to add functionality to it. For that, you’d need independent WordPress, which is at WordPress.ORG.
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Hello,
Thank you for your answer.
OK for editing CSS/PHP … I thought some websites still can edit their own theme/functionalities … I’ll register then at wordpress.ORG and double-post there … I have to admit it’s a little weird to ask the same question onto two websites … thank you anyway.
For languages, I know I can use categories (that’s what I planned to do), but it’s confusing with general themed categories … for tags, this is exactly what I’d like to avoid: havin’ a bunch of them onto one post.
For the two(or multiple)-sections blog, it’s exactly what I came to think of, a “sub” blog receiving a copy of selected posts (whit what, pingbacks ?), and shown as a “page” icon.
It’s enough easy to do it on my own server (so, not wordpress.COM) … but I’ll ask firs on wordpress.ORG if this doesn’t make problems with the database (duplicated entries, if the 2nd blog is a sub-website).For the third, I know about hierarchical categories, but I’ll need more than “one category hierarchy” for one post … basically, let’s say that categories and tags do the same thing, so, I’ll need an extra thing alongside with “Categories” and “Tags”.
It’s weird to explain clearly, so I’ve posted an entry on my test blog: http://einho.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/perfect-admin-hack/
I hope it’s clearer now?Thank you for help … I’m goin’ to copy this post in a wordpress.ORG forum, but I still hope someone’ll help here.
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@konpyuuta, there is no connection between wordpress.COM and wordpress.ORG except for the name. This is a multi-user free hosting service using the wordpress software, and there are far more restrictions here than with the self-hosted version of wordpress, and virtually no one here knows anything about what is and is not possible with the self-hosted version of the software.
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