Wordpress help!

[upyourego]

Are there any Wordpress coders out there with a little bit of spare time?

I write a number of blog posts that are often very similar - for example I write up the five songs my iPod played to me on shuffle each morning as a seperate post.

There are elements within this page I need to copy across like a banner image and tags.

It would be great if I had an option to 'clone' a previous post.

Maybe in the form of a button on a post page - so I open the last ipod tracks post, push the clone button and it creates a whole new post with a whole new ID but with all the same content - I can then just go and change the text.

So the question I've got really is 'is this possible?' and if it is on a scale of 1-10 what level of coding abillity would I need to create it?

If it's anything above 3 is there anyone else that's a better coder that might also want this feature who could help me?

This is an option thats available within the BBC News & Sport CPS and it makes life a LOT easier when writing similar stories.

Thanks in advance

[Viper007Bond]

Originally Posted by upyourego

Are there any Wordpress coders out there with a little bit of spare time?

Do I count? I've only written a bunch of really popular plugins and have contributed to the core multiple times.

Originally Posted by upyourego

I write a number of blog posts that are often very similar - for example I write up the five songs my iPod played to me on shuffle each morning as a seperate post.

There are elements within this page I need to copy across like a banner image and tags.

It would be great if I had an option to 'clone' a previous post.

Maybe in the form of a button on a post page - so I open the last ipod tracks post, push the clone button and it creates a whole new post with a whole new ID but with all the same content - I can then just go and change the text.

So the question I've got really is 'is this possible?' and if it is on a scale of 1-10 what level of coding abillity would I need to create it?

If it's anything above 3 is there anyone else that's a better coder that might also want this feature who could help me?

This is an option thats available within the BBC News & Sport CPS and it makes life a LOT easier when writing similar stories.

Thanks in advance

Totally possible. The PHP is easy if you've added buttons to TinyMCE and the old style editor before and are familiar with the WordPress API (semi-hard if you haven't), but you'd also need a fair amount of Javascript.

I'd be happy to code it for you though, no charge.


However, another solution would be to use my Templatedia plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/templatedia/

It works the same way as Mediawiki (Wikipedia) templates you. You create a template and then call the template with a few parameters and it'll output.

[upyourego]

To be honest it was really aimed at you Viper - I just didn't want to be rude and ask you directly - I am British after all

I'll give the the Templatedia plugin a go - it sounds like it might do the job - but out of interest - how much time would the 'clone' idea take? Is it a really big job?

[Viper007Bond]

Originally Posted by upyourego

but out of interest - how much time would the 'clone' idea take? Is it a really big job?

Nah, under an hour.

BTW, you use TinyMCE (barf) or the old style editor (TinyMCE disabled in your profile)?

[upyourego]

I use the old style editor - I like to have a bit of control over the way my posts displays and I find TinyMCE is as rabbid at removing code as <shudder>Frontpage</shudder> is.

If you've got time to create it that would be amazing - I've been looking at your template plugin but it doesn't seem to do what I'm looking for.

[Viper007Bond]

Ah good, adding a button to TinyMCE takes more time than adding it to the old-style editor.

I'll go throw something together.

[Viper007Bond]

Done: http://files.viper007bond.com/wordpr...sttemplate.zip

Edit the plugin to configure it.

[upyourego]

Viper - you're a brilliant man - that pretty much does what I need. There are a couple of very specific things I can use it for every day.

However I have also been sent a link to a plugin called 'duplicate post' that basically makes an exact copy of a post and puts it in draft.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/duplicate-post/

With your plugin and this one my Wordpress workflow is going to get a LOT quicker and easier.

Thanks again.

[Viper007Bond]

No problem.