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 Posted: Wed, 28th Jul 2010 04:44 Post subject: |
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I believe tainted knows quite a bit
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Jul 2010 06:58 Post subject: |
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i know i should have asked an actual question, but i posted a lengthy post on several forums including the official wordpress forum and got zero replies...
ill start with the first part of what i would like to accomplish, i want to have a system where people ask questions and me and a few others as a team can answer their questions.
How i imagined it would look like is that anyone without registering can post a question right on the blog , without having to go through the dashboard etc, basicly it should be as easy to post something as it is to post comments to posts , you give in your name , your email and there you go you can make a post, after which i as admin can allow that post to show or not ( to get rid of spam etc ) .
From that point on only me as admin can answer, and the orignal poster for additional questions.
Im not sure how to approach this. i dont think wordpress vanilla handles that, maybe plugins do?
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Jul 2010 08:21 Post subject: |
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Here is a plugin that may suit your needs after a bit of editting:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-answers/faq/
I would however highly suggest you do not allow guests to make requests. In other words, you are allowing a guest to make a database entry. If you do allow this, I would suggest ensuring that all forms are using PHP5 FILTER_SANITIZE or FILTER_VALIDATE..
Hard coding this yourself would not be too hard either if you are proficient with PHP I don''t think, should you not be able to find any Addons.
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Jul 2010 08:33 Post subject: |
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im open for suggestions of how to do it different , im afraid having every single person register an account to be a turn off, you can afford it on the popular stuff like nforce , digg, etc since you know you want to be part of it, but i dont want to scare them away from at least trying the concept i would like to have in place.
even if they would have to register, im not sure how i would go about it, would every user automaticly get "author" rights? how far would that go ? they would still need go to dashboard etc ( huge turn off ) and would make posting text more complicated than it is, since it would be a question answer support kind of thing for the low tech kind of folks.
Again if there are suggestions of how to do this best with a safe efficient system i would highly appreciate it.
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Jul 2010 08:52 Post subject: |
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It can be done safely, the only thing thing that you will compete against is spam. If it becomes popular you can just imagine..alot..of spam. I think the best thing you can do is any form that it uses to submit the question, have it run through php5's sanitize filters and you should be good. I think you may be able to use these to filter out some spam as well but I'd have to think over how I would do that for a while.
I'd imagine yes that Guest would need Author rights, but I think I saw that the wp-answers uses a comment style system that gets around that?
You may also be able to find a script that does what you need much easier outside of the WP Environment. You could link to it, and as far as looks just mirror the WP page to make it appear seamless.
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Jul 2010 09:24 Post subject: |
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| Spazmotic wrote: | It can be done safely, the only thing thing that you will compete against is spam. If it becomes popular you can just imagine..alot..of spam. I think the best thing you can do is any form that it uses to submit the question, have it run through php5's sanitize filters and you should be good. I think you may be able to use these to filter out some spam as well but I'd have to think over how I would do that for a while.
I'd imagine yes that Guest would need Author rights, but I think I saw that the wp-answers uses a comment style system that gets around that?
You may also be able to find a script that does what you need much easier outside of the WP Environment. You could link to it, and as far as looks just mirror the WP page to make it appear seamless. |
yes maybe an external script that i could implement as "page" under wordpress and that you could access through the menu.
but again im lost as for where to find anything i could use and fit my needs, ive searched and posted in several places and got nothing out of it.
Ive thought about learning to use html php sql etc, but i realized that it wouldnt be for this year before i would finsh that project, and i rather focus on support and content.
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Jul 2010 09:31 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Jul 2010 10:58 Post subject: |
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Besides finding a plugin or alternative script, I'd say go for the learning experience. You can turn your know-how into the project almost immediately as many of the skills you will be using are very simple php echos, Simple SQL INSERT,SELECT, and DELETE's.
Or you could find a script that is very similar and edit it to make it more to your needs if you learn better in that way as I do. I do not think it would take you a year but I guess that depends on your current skill level in html and php, and how much time you have to put into the project.
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| Posted: Mon, 9th Aug 2010 01:01 Post subject: |
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Not sure if that's (Unasked plugin) what you're angling for...
