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Hi -
I've been excited about your introduction of Extra Fields for EasyBlog posts - that's perfect for my application. However, I have 2 issues/questions before I can implement it on my site:
1) Currently, I have about 1000 EasyBlog posts, each of them with between 4-10 tags. Since there wasn't a way to "lock" the tags, there's a tremendous amount of duplication here, making it impossible to create one menu item displaying all relevant tags. Thus, I'm excited to move to a more structured database format. However, the question is how to convert all the old tags over? A few ideas:
a) Do you have a script for combining multiple tags into one? (For instance, automatically replace "gluten free," "gluten-free," "Gluten-Free" and "glutenfree" with "gluten-free"?)
b) Is there a way to assign extra field values in bulk, at least manually? Thus, I could search for each of the above variations on "glutenfree" and then auto-assign the 'gluten-free' extra field value.
2) As a related question, how can content be displayed based on its extra field values? For instance, EasyBlog ships with the ability to set a 'menu item' for a particular tag; do you have plans to add similar functionality to display content based on a particular extra field value? Ideally, one would be able to select a combination of parameters to display. It would be even more important to be able to do this for a content display module - currently, a number of third party providers offer content sliders that support EasyBlog tags (RokSprocket from RocketTheme and SmartSlider 3 from Nextend come to mind). Setting a combination of parameters to display EasyBlog posts is an absolute necessity for my site. I'd really appreciate hearing what your plans are in this regard.
Thanks,
Cheryl
I've been excited about your introduction of Extra Fields for EasyBlog posts - that's perfect for my application. However, I have 2 issues/questions before I can implement it on my site:
1) Currently, I have about 1000 EasyBlog posts, each of them with between 4-10 tags. Since there wasn't a way to "lock" the tags, there's a tremendous amount of duplication here, making it impossible to create one menu item displaying all relevant tags. Thus, I'm excited to move to a more structured database format. However, the question is how to convert all the old tags over? A few ideas:
a) Do you have a script for combining multiple tags into one? (For instance, automatically replace "gluten free," "gluten-free," "Gluten-Free" and "glutenfree" with "gluten-free"?)
b) Is there a way to assign extra field values in bulk, at least manually? Thus, I could search for each of the above variations on "glutenfree" and then auto-assign the 'gluten-free' extra field value.
2) As a related question, how can content be displayed based on its extra field values? For instance, EasyBlog ships with the ability to set a 'menu item' for a particular tag; do you have plans to add similar functionality to display content based on a particular extra field value? Ideally, one would be able to select a combination of parameters to display. It would be even more important to be able to do this for a content display module - currently, a number of third party providers offer content sliders that support EasyBlog tags (RokSprocket from RocketTheme and SmartSlider 3 from Nextend come to mind). Setting a combination of parameters to display EasyBlog posts is an absolute necessity for my site. I'd really appreciate hearing what your plans are in this regard.
Thanks,
Cheryl
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