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Creating an opt-in directory of blogs

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Anyone have any idea what the database calls would be for creating an opt-in directory of blogs for a WPMu installation. The University of Texas at Arlington does this pretty nicely here, and I was just wondering if anyone might have insight into how this was done.

If not, I guess I would register this as a feature suggestion :slight_smile:

Sun, 4 Nov 2007 1:27:29
  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    *chuckle* Doesn’t show up in Netscape 7.1

    Actually I was poking around the idea of communities over here. (edit: That’s not what you were asking about but while I was waiting for IE to load, I wrote that so i just left it there.)

    That there is probably just the list-all plugin from wpmudev.org but set up with pages and modified a bit. Last updated and Registered are found within the wp_blogs table already so the plugin already can access that data. Blog title is just a get_blog_option call. Ditto on number of posts. (It’s post_count. I had to go look it up.)

    Only hard part (at least for me) would be the breaking it down into pages. Take me about five minutes if you want it without the pages.

    I know Andrea does something like this. Gotta admit that I’m surrpised you guys don’t do a cron and cache this in the db every hour or so.

    edit: *chuckle* We could make it really interesting and add in the blog avatars from the premium plugin.

    reedit: Just noticed the opt-in bit. Gotta admit that I would just check against the ‘public’ option in the blogs table.

  • mblackmo
    • Flash Drive

    Dr. Mike and company,

    Thanks for the pointers, I am going to play with the list-all plugin now, and I think the UT Arlington folks used some javascript to break the table into separate pages. I may be able to put this together thanks to your tips. Much appreciated, as always. In fact Dr. Mike, you are responsible for much of the success of our installation of WPMu at the University of mary Washington -so thank you in particular!! Good to see you on a forum :slight_smile:

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Not a problem.

    I still have this on my todo list. I can make a complete list but I want to make it sortable and cached as well.

    Maybe I should just have it create static files every so often via a cron like the sitemap plugins. Hmmm….

    Would that work for folks?

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Actually I did have a thought of a small favor you could do for me that doesn’t involve any money. (If I get money via paypal, I have to report it and it mucks up my insurance anyway. One of the reasons why I usually ask for tips in gift cards.)

    About two months ago, someone pushed out the entire run of the old Shadowrun RPS into alt.binaries.e-book.rpg. Any chance I could get you to sign up for a demo account on giganews or another usenet service like that and you email me (theapparatus@gmail.com) the account information? If you cancel within 3 days (and I’m on oc-192s here at the school so i can be quick. I’m here all day Wednesday and most of Friday), your credit card doesn’t get billed.

    Thanks,

    -drmike