For my project, I’m looking for two things to complete my setup for the Internal Knownledge Network I’m currently building. It’s my final project for school, my graduation project, however you want to call it.
I’m looking for a tool to make real-time live tagging possible. I’ve just integrated a slug in the post-interface where you can add tags, then there’s an AJaX tagsearch engine connected to those tags. Now I’d like to add something to it that would allow other people than the one who originally posted the message to add tags to that post without having to log in.
Example: Person A posts an idea, links it up with some clients by tagging it with the names of those clients. Person B reads the entry and thinks the idea could also be useful to some other projects of which person A didn’t think of. Now it should be possible for person B to add tags to the existing tags, without going into the ‘edit’ mode. So I’m looking for a sort of form field that can be added at the end of the listed tags, where anyone within the network can add more tags. Those tags should then be a) sent to the tag archive, b) added to the AJaX tagsearch and cloud en c) either appear in real time or after the page is reloaded.
The other thing I’m looking for is ‘User Profiles’ that can be extended. Right now every author has a page which comes standard in WordPress. I’d like to add more fields to that page and extract some data from it to display it on another page. The profiles should be public so that people in the network can ‘check’ each other. I’d like the data to be extractable because I want to have something like a birthday notification or favorite movie of the week… stuff like that. The user profiles should either be the existing author pages, but then in an extended and editable form, or some sort of plug which can work with WordPress.
UPDATE: I’m modding the profiles.php page and I’m creating extra slugs. I think I’m getting there if I can make the DB remember what I typed into the slugs because when I click ‘update’ the fields are blank again. If I look into this some more I think I’ll be able to fix it. That leaves just the first remark to be solved, but any tips in user profiles are still welcome.
Any pointers? – Thanks already.