[wp-hackers] user-specified default post fields (was: keywords...)

[omjn]

Hi folks,

I'm looking at ways of making WP do the things I want to do (rather than 
what it wants me to do), and for this I really would find it helpful to 
be able to have user-specified default posts in this manner.  It would 
be great to have this feature in a future update, especially if it were 
a part of the admin interface in a way that from a list of all available 
fields the desired ones could chosen by radio buttons or something 
similar.  I guess for now though, I'm going to have to try hacking 
something in myself as I need this feature pretty quickly.  Anybody got 
any tips as to where I should start looking in the WP code such that I 
can change the default fields of new posts?  Or is it as simple as just 
adding a global field to the mysql database?  I'll start trawling the 
code for obvious calls, but any advice would be appreciated.

cheers

Michael Noble



Mark Jaquith wrote:

> I think a user-controlled setting would be best.  If you use a certain 
> custom field a lot, you could just decide to have it always appear.
>
> This is a feature that Expression Engine has that really had me 
> excited.  I think this would go a long way towards making WordPress 
> capable of handling projects out of the range of a simple blog tool, 
> but not big enough to warant a full-on CMS.
>
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:48am, Scott Merrill wrote:
>
>> jonner.1979671 at bloglines.com said:
>>
>>>  I think there's probably situations where you wouldn't want the field
>>>  added to every post entry form (for example, if you had a ton of 
>>> custom
>>>  fields
>>>  and didn't want your post form to be 10 pages long), so I think the
>>>  existing
>>>  interface could be kept, as long as a couple commonly-used fields 
>>> could be
>>>  designated as static.
>>
>>
>> How about: when displaying the post form, query the DB for all those 
>> keys
>> that have been used more than X times (or add a counter for each meta 
>> key,
>> to ease the DB load) and dislpay those, on the assumption that you're 
>> most
>> likely to use them?
>>
>> Otherwise the post-meta table would need to modified to include a
>> "default" (or "static" or "always") option, telling the post form to
>> include it.
>>
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