[wp-hackers] topic exchange integration

[Steve]

Tara Star wrote:

> Dougal Campbell wrote:
>
>> Why add a new field? Just use the postmeta. When posting, you could just
>> add a "te_channel" key for each topic. A plugin could then just hook
>> into the publish_post action, look for any "te_channel" fields for the
>> post, and send the appropriate pings to the TE server.
>>
>
> Of course, new field is not necessary. It's just an interface 
> preference thing. I already have three postmeta keys for all of my 
> posts, and I find adding them one by one with the "custom field" part 
> of the form very kludgy. I'd much rather have a text input I can tab 
> to and into which I just need to type a bunch of channel identifyers.


What about just creating a root category called "Topic Exchange" or 
whatever else you like then create sub categories of it named after the 
channels you wish to ping? Then you just have a simple plugin that go 
through those selected sub categories of each post and makes the ping?

Would be much easier than creating a whole new field or adding new 
custom keys and the like.

If you really want a new field to enter in to, use DOM in the same way 
Kitten did for her SpamWords 2 plugin. That way you don't have to hack 
any WP files.

Just my 2c


Steve
(aka Korgan)