[wp-hackers] Intervening in $posts and hidden categories

[Jason goldsmith]

I definitely agree. We need a way to "style" meta data, or at least to
assign a generic form type to a meta data tag and then a custom option
which could call a function or class to generate the form inputs.

Probably would be good to offer the ability to control if the meta tag
input should appear on all post forms or just the advanced.

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:44:48 -0400, Owen Winkler
<ringmaster at midnightcircus.com> wrote:
> 
> > Just as a matter of
> > implementation, however, I think it makes sense for a
> > sticky-post type
> > plugin to utilize the category infrastructure. Then in your
> > plugin file
> > you could get the ID of the sticky category and add a simple
> > $cat = -123;
> > to your plugin file to exclude that category from the main loop. With
> > regards to interface, I think checking and unchecking a
> > category is much
> > easier than putting a specified value in a custom field and
> > then deleting
> > it later.
> 
> Checking and unchecking a category to make a post sticky doesn't seem as
> intuitive as clicking a box to make a post sticky.
> 
> Why not use post metadata for actual post metadata ("I am a sticky
> post") rather than shoehorn metadata into the category feature ("posts
> in here are sticky in the other categories to which they belong")?
> 
> That said, there should be a way to force certain metadata fields to
> appear by default and to predefine those fields with display types.  For
> example, there could be a way to define "Sticky" as a metadata field
> that appears in the post editor by default, and it could appear as a
> checkbox that sets the value of the "Sticky" key depending on its
> checked state.
> 
> It seems unclear how the display mechanism could differentiate what
> metadata is for literal display ("Currently reading...") and what
> metadata is for display control ("highlight this post").  Should there
> be a flag that differntiates metacontent versus metadata?
> 
> Owen
> 
> 
> 
> 
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