Hello,
I am creating a website for a magazine, and part of that involves allowing the publisher to organize their posts by issues. Functionality-wise this means:
* Being able to group posts based on issues
* Displaying the articles within the current issue on the frontend under a “IN THIS ISSUE” section.
* Be able to go through an archive of past issues to see what articles are available
I have seen a couple plugins that do this such as IssueM, but that plugin creates a new custom post type which is not needed since the original Posts section is what will be used.
I was thinking about creating a custom taxonomy called Issues, which will have the issue number and an image upload for the issue’s cover. Therefore the owner will be able to organize each article using the taxonomy, and the archive page can list the magazine covers and issue number. When you click through, it will bring up all the articles within the issue.
This taxonomy can be selected from the create/edit post page from a metabox on the side.
In the “IN THIS ISSUE” section I’m thinking I can run a query that will pull from the latest taxonomy created.
What do you guys think? Will this work? Have any of you created a periodical before?
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