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At the moment, I'm building a website for a local NGO and I have the following situation: in the sidebar, I should have a widget that displays the title of the latest editorials from the members of the NGO. These editorials are published on external sites. So, my widget will look something like this:

first row: Post title (The title of the editorial with a link to the external site) second row: Author Name (The name of the editorial's author [plain text]) | Website (the name of the website that hosts the editorial [plain text]) My dilemma is how to built this widget.

Here are my thoughts:

a) I should build a custom post type with custom taxonomies. The tag should be the Author Name and the Category the website. And the solution would be to build a widget that reads the latest posts from the custom post type and below displays the tag and category (without links on them [is that possible???])

b) I should build a custom post type and two custom fields. Then I should build the widget that reads the latest posts from the custom post type and below displays the two custom fields.

Which road should I go? Do you have another ideea on how this can be achieved?

Thank you in advance.

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  • Why do you need custom post types? Using the external feeds is probably easier. – fuxia♦ Jul 11 '13 at 22:57
  • And so on that note, the answer most likely is XML, provided it is available. Is it? I'm a fan of SimpleXML myself: php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php – GhostToast Jul 12 '13 at 2:20
  • I thought using XML but the problem is that these guys are publishing editorials on a lot of websites around the globe. There are websites where they publish an editorial/month and websites where they publish editorials/2years. Besides that, some of the websites don't have feeds. – byubay Jul 12 '13 at 6:46
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Sounds like you don't need the querying power taxonomies will offer, but it would make sense to use if you think you'll frequently have the same authors publishing; reduces redundant data (i.e. lots of the same entries in post meta) and improves the UX for administrators.

Same applies for websites; if there'll be many with rarely ever the same, stick with meta.

Either way, a custom post type seems like a good plan to me.

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  • Thanks TheDeadMedic. I will stick with the meta because they will always have the same authors and the websites in 70% of the cases will be the same. Besides that, I need to make it really easy for the administrators. – byubay Jul 12 '13 at 6:49
  • If they'll (almost) always be the same, go with taxonomies! Sorry if my wording caused some confusion there. – TheDeadMedic Jul 12 '13 at 7:22
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I cant help you completely....but use this plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/ then get the feeds and customize it to your widget.... also this plugin will give you the excerpt of the external post..... and will link it to the external post.....

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  • Thank you for your answer. Please see my above comment on why I can't use feeds. – byubay Jul 12 '13 at 6:48

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