Programming for the WikiWP theme

[Josh]

The program would want some logic to determine when to “wrap” content by making links go to different pages, and when not to expand out below a certain level of a hierarchy, based on page size or something related to that.

Size estimates could be built bottom up.

[Josh]

I meant dynamically.

Size estimates could be built bottom up.

There would be actual word counts & then some kind of “length estimate” of mapping those into different formatting constructs – increments for each header type, etc. Increments for included non-text media. Only a rough ball park judgment is needed – an order of magnitude, not any kind of precision.

[Josh]

Of course, anything can be done with custom programming. It does make sense to see how close one can get with existing plugins that someone else has already programmed. In the WP way of doing things, it seems there are these distinct sub-parts:

1) Create a system of tags, custom fields, taxonomies etc. that can be applied to posts to describe them and also used to select them in queries for display or other processing

2) apply those tags in the course of editing many posts. Hopefully, that goes easily. There are also some tools to bulk change tags later, but they need to select on some specific criteria to work.

3) Display custom lists with custom styling within custom pages.

4) Create indices for the items in these lists.

5) Create “permalinks” in a systemic way.

For 1+2, it seems that Advanced Custom Fields is the most widely used custom-post-type editor. Custom Post Typeis another plugin focused on the same specialization.

custom-field-bulk-editor as I noted before, is an attempt to edit many tags at once based on some patterns describable in the menus (no programming required).

These 3 plugins: https://wordpress.org/plugins/piklist/Piklist , Pods Pods https://wordpress.org/plugins/pods/ and Meta BoxMeta Box apparently integrate 1)+2)+3) in some way.

Multi-column tag-map focuses on 3) and maybe does some 4). Dynamic Widgets includes 3) as part of what it does https://wordpress.org/plugins/dynamic-widgets/

Plugins focused on 4) include Custom Taxonomies Menu Widget and Table of Contents+

Possible relevant permalinks plugins – https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-permalinks/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/permalinks-customizer/

All of the above might well be wrong in some respects because it is only impressions gained from reading short English descriptions of each plugin’s functionality.

“Try them out” and see is plausible advice, though there is a learning curve for each to figure out what it is actually capable of. Not sure what order to use for exploration.

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