[Resolved] Directories / Lists

[John]

Hello GP Support Team,

Your response time is lightening fast. And your support is excellent. Please forgive me for abusing your good will !

Please see this page which contains three directories: https://understand-culture.com/patterns/ . A friend of mine created them. Via some kind of shortcode. I want to be able to create my own directories/lists.

Can you, please, suggest how I do this? Is this CSS or PHP or is there a GP-friendly plugin which you recommend?

Thank you.

John Magee in Germany

[David]

Hi there,

thats pretty neat – it would have been built with PHP to create the lists and the shortcodes. With some CSS to style it.
Theres not a plugin that i can recommend that does the same thing.

How would these other lists differ from the ones you currently have? Or are you just looking to replace those?

[John]

Holy Moses, David, are you fast. Thanks!

You write:
“How would these other lists differ from the ones you currently have? Or are you just looking to replace those?”

They would not differ. My friend, Joe, got them right. I am thinking of three things:

First: Joe is a full-time medical doctor in California. He is an autodidact re: websites. I don’t want to continue drawing on his goodwill. And, I want to be in a position to create my own directores at any time.

Second: I want also to know how to design the directories, to give them a different look, should I choose to.

Third: And this is key, when I embed those shortcodes in a page on my new site – http://www.understand-culture.com – they pull posts from the data-base associated with that site, and not from the data-based where they are located. I need to talk to Joe about that.

But, in the meantime, can you explain to me how that works? My operating assumption is that posts can be in a data-base, in this case roughly 80 Q+As, and be pulled from any website, in this case understand-culture.com. Did I get that right?

Thanks.

John

[David]

So taking a closer look a the HTML that is being output i managed to track down the plugin being used:

https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/multi-column-tag-map/

That includes a link to the plugins documentation that provides a list of the available options:

https://mctagmap.tugbucket.net

Regarding how it works. It will only work with the website it is installed on. It cannot reach out to a different domain/website and grab its data without their being some API ( Application Programming Interface ) in place that allows the sharing of data.

[John]

Got it.
Super helpful, David.
Thank you once again for great work !

John

[John]

Wait … one more question on this topic, David:

Can you recommend any plugins for GP which create directories?

John

[David]

Unfortunately not – just having a nose at that plugin – its really lightweight and has very little CSS which is great.
And the author is very active on the plugins support forum – so he should be able to help restyle it if you need to.

[John]

Ok.
Thanks, David !

John

[David]

You’re welcome

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