wordpress q: avoid double posts
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I want to build a blog with several authors.
they enter some data, to post...first they have to fill out a custom field »isbn-no.«.
Now here we go: i want the author to show, that there is already an article/posting about with the he entered isbn-no...is this possible to realize? or plugin for that?
thank you for reading...
- airey0
maybe a flowchart might describe that a little better. i really tried but got to the 3rd sentence and you lost me.
- to0
i only want to avoid that my authors are going to post several articles to one book (topic).
and the ISBN-Number is to key to it ;)
- airey0
i realise this doesn't answer the question, but if you're having multiple authors and a concern is 2 or more of them doing similar work shouldn't you have someone act as a traffic controller / manager? or would that be unworkable in this situation?
- acescence0
don't know of anything existing, but an idea that comes to mind would be to either grab all the ISBN numbers when the post write page loads, or lookup an ISBN via an AJAX call to a script. either way, i'd maybe start with the custom field template plugin to provide a field for ISBN on the post write page, then use javascript to capture what people input and match it against existing ISBNs and pop an alert if it exists. or maybe a sexy thickbox window.
- to0
yes. that sounds good...acescence
- airey0
i'd make it a necessary step that they have to add the isbn to keywords at the very least but if you know php / js at all then look at creating a 'custom-field' in the add post area.
a problem may also be that the author may very well have written the article / post before they have even opened the wordpress admin area (in word / etc) which then means they've wasted their time.
a question might be, does it matter if someone writes about the same thing another person has already written about? perhaps it might in fact add a different view point and therefore expand on the quality of what your site will offer?
- to0
mmhhh a good point to think about...airey
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