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Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 8 weeks ago

#1629 new enhancement

Create archives for popular and recent videos and link to them from home page sections

Reported by: dgwyer's profile dgwyer Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Component: WordPress.tv Keywords: needs-patch
Cc:

Description

I'd like to see the 'Latest Videos' and 'Popular Videos' headings on the front page made into links to index/archive pages.

When I haven't visited WordPress.tv in a while it would be useful to be able to click on the 'Latest Videos' heading to see all videos posted since my last visit, and likewise for popular videos.

Change History (2)

#1 @BrashRebel
7 years ago

  • Keywords needs-patch added
  • Summary changed from Make front page headings links to Create archives for popular and recent videos and link to them from home page sections

@dgwyer thanks for this awesome and totally spot on suggestion. I agree completely that such an addition to the home page would be super cool.

Turns out there's a reason those two sections don't have view more links. It's because those are not based on something that already has an archive which we can link to. Latests posts just uses the main query on the home page because that is set to be the page which displays posts. There is no other defined page we can link to which lists posts in chronological order at this time.

Popular posts is based on a meta value and those don't have archives the way categories do.

So this can still be easily resolved, we'll just have to make a couple modifications to the theme and to the settings.

  1. We'll need to create a home page and a posts page
  2. Set the reading settings to define home as the front page and the posts page as the one which shows posts
  3. Modify the front page template to be a page template which the new home page will select as its defined template
  4. Add the simple query to the front page template which will get latest posts (it isn't there now because it uses the page's main query)
  5. Add the More -> link in the upper right of both sections to remain consistent with the other lists on the site (go to /category/wordrcamptv/ and see an example of the More - >links)
  6. Set the More link for recent videos to the new posts page created in 1
  7. Create a new page template which lists all posts, with pagination, by popularity
  8. Create a new page which uses the new popular posts page template
  9. Set the More link in the Popular section on the home page to link to this new Popular page

So a few steps but they're all really simple. If someone wants to tackle this, by all means, go for it! And if you need help, DM me or ask here. If no one takes it, I'll get to it eventually.

#2 @dgwyer
7 years ago

Glad this has been picked up. Will make a valuable addition to the homepage.

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