[wp-hackers] topic exchange integration

[Tara Star]

Tara Star wrote:

> Reading this post by Seb Paquet just gave me an idea:
> 
> <http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/2004/06/30.html#a1628>
> 
> Here is what I'd like to do (hack or plugin) -- please let me know if 
> anything similar exists or is in the works, so that we don't do the job 
> twice:
> 
> - add a text-field for "TE topics" in the new post page (for input like 
> "blogtalk_conference wordpress multilingual_blogging")
> - upon submission, parse that field, trackback the channels it lists, 
> and add them to the postmeta table
> - when retrieving a post, that data can then be diplayed so that we can 
> imagine having a list of categories, and a list of trackbacked TE 
> channels for each post
> 
> - optional: see if the TE API allows retrieving of the "pretty name" for 
> the channel and add that to postmeta too (ie, "Blogtalk Conference" 
> instead of "blogtalk_conference")

has anybody picked this up to do something with it? It would be nice if 
it also grabbed any topicexchange channels trackbacked through the 
"category trackback" functionality.

If nobody picks it up I'll do it at some point, but I don't think it 
will be these few next days.

Steph aka bunny
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