make/Community p2 post categories

[iandunn]

@jenmylo requested some p2 modifications for the make/Community blog.

1. The ability to assign a category to a new p2 post
2. Creating a category template with the new post form included
3. Add room to the category template for an intro area above the blog posts
4. New home page design

xref: ​http://make.wordpress.org/community/2013/09/05/importing-events/

[iandunn]

#1 is written. I started ​a discussion on our p2 about whether it should live in the Meta repo or the official plugin repo.

[iandunn]

@jenmylo, I attached some screenshots for your feedback.

• post-form-with-category-dropdown.png​shows the category dropdown added to the new post form.
• home-page.pngshows category links being displayed on posts
• category-page.png shows the category template with the post form added.

(The last two don't have the dropdown in them, but they will in production.)

Those are all ready to go, pending any tweaks you want and ​the decision on where to host the p2 category plugin.

I'll probably need a rough wireframe for #3 and #4, or at least a detailed description of what you want it to look like.

[jenmylo]

1. Category dropdown and tag input could be on same line, the tag field doesn't need to be so long.

2. Okay.

3. Guessing that if there was a category description stored it would show above the list of posts?

[iandunn]

1. P2 only has a hook to add elements at the end of the form, so I think the only way to get it there would be with absolute CSS positioning, or using Javascript to move it within the DOM after the fact. Both of those would be pretty fragile, though, so I'd recommend against it.
3. Attached a new screenshot with that. P2 doesn't display tag descriptions; do you want them added on the tag archive template too?

[iandunn]

Includes the category description

[iandunn]

187-p2-new-post-categories.diff​ is for the p2 plugin. I put it in a new folder in the Meta repo, so we can make it an svn:external in the private repo, similar to the handbook plugin.

187-wporg-p2.diff is for supporting the use of categories on the make/Community site.

Those two patches take care of #1 and #2. Waiting on wireframes to do #3 and #4.

[iandunn]

187-p2-new-post-categories.2.diff​ shows empty categories in the dropdown list and sorts the categories by name instead of ID.

[Otto42]

In 109:

P2 Post Categories plugin and theme mods for make-community. See #187. props iandunn

[Otto42]

Okay, it's on there and activated for make/community, but you might want to have the dropdown have some kind of better default selection. Perhaps "Uncategorized".

[iandunn]

187-p2-new-post-categories.3.diff​ makes the default category selected by default.

[Otto42]

In 110:

Set default category in dropdown. see #187

[Otto42]

Closing this for now. Re-open if there are further changes to be made.

[iandunn]

187-p2-new-post-categories.4.diff​ takes advantage of the new p2_new_post_submit_success trigger in P2 to hook into the save-new-post process in a clean way. We don't have to hijack the Tag field anymore, so it's less confusing/disruptive for users.

[Otto42]

In 118:

New version of p2 plugin for make/community. props iandunn. see #187