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Book Review: link page and single posts

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  • Started 10 years ago by kalico
  • Latest reply from allycat
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  1. kalico
    Inactive

    I'm enjoying the challenge of this plugin -- seems to be what I want, just trying to make it display what I want.

    -- Is there a function for showing just the book title, author, or permalink? Or do I use those functions from WP?

    -- can the br_get_books() or br_get_books() be used in the single.php template?

    GOAL: I'm trying to make the main page (index.php) have a list of just the books titles, each one linked to the review itself, each review alone on a page (single.php). Am I going about this the wrong way?

    All I can make happen is to show all the reviews, which will make for a very, very long page when I'm done!

    I'd appreciate any advice. :)

    Posted: 2006-05-10 07:26:16 #

  2. lee
    Inactive

    The title of the book is stored in the post title, so simply using WordPress's the_title() function will work.

    The author can be retrieved using br_get_book_author()

    And the permalink can also be received by the WordPress function (which is get_permalink() I think).

    Hope that helps.

    Lee

    Posted: 2006-05-13 19:16:53 #

  3. kalico
    Inactive

    Thanks Lee, that is exactly what I needed.

    Another question -- I can't seem to have reviews appear on only one of the categories I select. If I specify that reviews are to appear in more than one category, they show up in all of them -- I'd like to categorize the reviews and display them according to category. Is that possible, and I'm just missing it?

    Thanks!

    Posted: 2006-05-28 00:09:55 #

  4. lee
    Inactive

    I'm confused by what you're after here, can you explain it a little more and I'll see what I can do?

    Cheers

    Lee

    Posted: 2006-05-28 15:52:42 #

  5. kalico
    Inactive

    Hi Lee,
    I'd like to have my reviews in categories. This is for a pastor's website -- so Christian Living Books, Theology Books, etc. And in the admin area, I can choose which categories I want the books to be in. But what happens is that all reviews show up in all categories I check -- I would the option to specify for each book which category it should be in. I guess that was my expectation -- I can't see what the point is of having all the books in all the categories specified. Maybe I'm missing the point, so feel free to educate me! :)

    One other thing I'd like to do -- Is there a way to sort the list of reviews by the author's name? I'm trying to accomplish that right now; maybe it's a WP option to sort on a custom field.

    Thanks! Great plugin!!

    Posted: 2006-05-28 22:28:21 #

  6. allycat
    Member

    I think I understand what you want. I want something similar. :)

    In the plugin right now there is no Categories list like there is in the regular Write Post page. I'd like to have the categories list show up b/c I have Publishers listed as categories and would like to be able to click on a certain publisher so that when a reader comes to my site looking for information on Publisher X, they click that category, are shown that categories page and on that page will be news, information and reviews about that publisher.

    Is that clear as mud? :)

    Posted: 2007-06-06 14:39:50 #

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