What would I need to know to create this project?

[Robert M Gouge]

I'm interested in coding a site that does the following:

1. Wordpress Plugin
- Submits each article of the blog and it's Tags (and every new article) to the central database site.
- Validates account level and restrictions.
- Inserts 5 related articles, with similar tags as the main article, into the footer of the post which are grabbed from the approved article central database.
- Sends traffic stats back to database for each link (views/clicks)

2. Central Database (admin)
- Grabs articles sent by the plugin and logs the urls, thumbnails, tags, etc.
- Holds all articles in an admin interface for review.
- Simple admin interface to streamline manual reviews.
- Manage user accounts.

2a. Central Database (user)
- (per account) shows all approved articles - views - ctr - clicks
- (per account) shows all articles in the queue for approval
- user dashboard to manage subscription


Hope that made sense.

Basically just an article database that is filled automatically from the plugin users. That, in turn, have 5 articles from the database inserted into their post footers under 'Related articles'.

Think: Publish a blog post and it gets sent to the article database, then, Related Articles Plugin pulling articles from Master Article Directory Database and putting it in footers.

 

[mattseh]

PHP for the plugin
Probably likely MySQL
Familiarity with Wordpress internals
Optionally another programming language for your backend.

 

[Robert M Gouge]

What type of language would I need to create the Master Directory site which holds user account information that records stats for everything etc?

 

[mattseh]

"You don't know what you don't know". Learn PHP or Python or Ruby. It's more work and learning than you'd think. Good luck.

 

[emp]

PHP and MySQL.

As WP is built on these, nothing else necessary.

::emp::

 

[jryan21]

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