nchilla / nsfp-website

This repo will store/track all programming files related to the redesign of the New School Free Press website!

NSFP website design/development

This repo will store/track all programming files related to the redesign of the New School Free Press website!

You can see a draft of the article page, AKA "reader" here.

The live blog is, well, live here

Notes:

Wordpress plugins that will break the site if deactivated

• Advanced Custom Fields is used to fetch data for the Live Blog updates and other posts.

• Co-Authors Plus is self explanatory. It is used in the new post template's php gets. Look for get_coauthors($thepost);

• Really Simple SSL is self explanatory.

The Live Blog

The live blog is built as a custom single page (page-19929.php) in Wordpress. It has three sections, which are edited in different areas:

• Live Updates uses a custom post type added through functions.php. Look for the create_post_wp_covid() and add_action( 'init', 'create_post_wp_covid' ); functions.

• Our Coverage pulls from regular posts that have the c19-our-coverage tag.

• Resources pull directly from the Live Blog page content editor in Pages

For more information about the design and purpose of these sections, see this design concept document.

Some development gotchas for future custom pages:

• When you push to the server using FTP, you need to upload the custom single page in the mobile folder of the theme as well as the overall theme folder, because this theme uses a completely different template for mobile (I agree, it's silly).