Hello,
I would like to start a web directory and would like to know if there is a plugin or something similar to add this functionality to my site (MT 4.2). What would you suggest?
Thanks in advance, Francisco.
Reported on Movable Type 4.2
Hello,
I would like to start a web directory and would like to know if there is a plugin or something similar to add this functionality to my site (MT 4.2). What would you suggest?
Thanks in advance, Francisco.
Reported on Movable Type 4.2
Can you be more specific?
Sure,
The idea is to create a web directory where I can list names, addresses and urls of different companies. I want to sort it by industry and by country.
For this purpose, I want to setup a form where visitors can send the data and I can approve/edit them within the MT UI, as opposed to handcode everything in new entries.
It will be a new blog in the same MT installation so, could it be possible to do it using custom fields? Any plugin you know?
Thanks in advance :)
Well you could the community forums which requires the Pro Pack. This will give you something akin to these forums.
I am currently working on a business directory in MT, we have a MT Pro license. You would want to use the MT Pro Community Blog and Custom Fields. This would allow your users front end addition of listings.
I was originally doing a business directory in Joomla and jReviews, however that software does not have very good support for multiple privilege sets per directory. With jReviews, if you have 4 different directories (which we will) all four will abide by the same rules.
Ken
Thanks Rob :)
Hello Ken,
I do have MT Pro and the truth is I'm still learning to use the community features, but soon I will get more into this! ;)
As for the directory, in our industry, companies usually do not pay too much attention to web stuff. I would expect them to send their information and rarely they would check it again (I say this because I already created a directory and that's what happened).
This time I was thinking on a simple UI like a form that enterprises could fill and send for moderation/publication. Using MT would be mostly for my ease of use...
Any suggestions you may like to share regarding this?
Just setup your custom fields and use the Community Blog template set.
By default all custom fields are on the Create Entry index (it is a loop). You could modify that index if you wanted the submission form to look different.
By default the Entry template outputs the custom fields data (again, a loop) but it is not pretty.
When you create a custom field there is a section at the bottom, Sample. It writes the IfNotEmpty tag for you. Just delete the loop from the Entry template and create your own nice looking layout using the IfNotEmpty code from setting up the Custom Fields.
Ken
Ok, thanks a lot :)
When ready I'll write again,
Regards.