Custom Shortcode for User Read/Unread page/post button WordPress
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<strong>The Details:</strong>
The [post_read] shortcode will store user data on whether or not a user has read the post/page based on there selection.
The user will click a button once they have read or unread the page/post this data will save in the DB. All users are logged in.
Things that need to happen Behind the scenes:
The database will store the users selection 0-unread 1-read or similar depending on users selection for that post id
How it would look On the Frontend to the user:
Click here if you have have finished reading the page (button/input)
(This is the original state)
Congratulations on reading the page! If you would like to mark the page back to unread click here (button/input)
(user will see this after they clicked the button. Unless they click the unread button, then it will go back to the original state above)
How I would like to implement it on the post/page is by posting a shortcode.
shortcode ex: [post_read]
Additionally I need to retrieve data back from the database. I need a sum of all the individual user read pages in a value. So if the user has marked 35 pages as read the shortcode will display: 35
shortcode ex: [post_read_value]
And I need to extract the sum of just the users read pages under a parent page. So if the user has read 35 post in total but 10 of them were under the parent page with ID=3254 the shortcode would display 10.
shortcode ex: [post_read_value id='3254']
Thank you!!!
Answers (1)
enodekciw answers:
25$ for that?
You're joking, right?
platinum comments:
So I'm taking it that this isn't a 10 minute gig to a ninja? Honestly I figured if you're an expert it would take between 10-20 minutes depending on your skillset.
That's between 150-75/hr.
What do you feel would be a more appropriate compensation to complete the task? Because it's not a lot of lines of code per se it's just more cognitively demanding.
How long do you expect something like this to take? I have no problem adjusting the fee if necessary.
Thanks!
enodekciw comments:
No, thats definately not a 10min gig ;)
It's pretty custom stuff, you got here. I don't think that anyone will write a custom plugin (ok, let's call it 'shortcode') just for 25$, then it requires even db tweaks. Yeah, it's kinda small, but, as I've said.. it's custom. Also, you require a lot of funcionality.
If you're gonna raise the award money, I can get you ajax-based plugin for this. (Almost have it done, but it's 4AM, so..)
platinum comments:
Cool, fair enough bumped it up another 50 bucks to $75.
Hopefully that's a more reasonable fee for the work.
Best Wishes.
enodekciw comments:
Ok, just completed that plugin.
Gonna do some debuggin + code cleaning and post it here ;)
enodekciw comments:
Ok, so I'm attaching plugin to this post.
Download it. Install it. Activate it.
Use [read_button] shortcode to display READ/UNREAD button.
Use [read_count] shortcode to display current logged in user read pages/posts count.
Use [read_count username="name"] shortcode to display some exact user read pages/posts count.
Use [read_count parent="page-id"] shortcode to display read children pages count for current logged in user.
Use [read_count username="name" parent="page-id"] shortcode to display read children pages count for some exact user.
Also, you can style that button editing dekciw-ru-style.css ;)
Button text can be changed @ lines 69 and 71 in dekciw-ru-plugin.php (also you have to change them accordingly @ lines 19 and 22 in dekciw-ru-db-script.php).
Btw, jQuery should be also loaded.
Your plugin is [[LINK href="http://www.dekciw.lt/plugins/dekciw-ru-plugin.zip"]]here[[/LINK]].