Building The Daily Create | Tim Owens - 0 views
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I’m not a programmer, I’m more of a “hack away at something and make it work” type of guy.
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Terry Elliott on 15 May 13I am much the same.
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The homepage is a WordPress loop
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static content blocks
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schedule these assignments to automatically post
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Twitter Tools fires off a tweet to the TDC Twitter account.
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Flickr
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a plugin called Awesome Flickr Gallery
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You can create multiple galleries, restrict them to a specific tag, and control how they display.
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Each assignment gets its own gallery which gets put into the post as a shortcode.
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Alan figured out how to link back to the original Flickr photo
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decided to use SoundCloud
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simple widget for groups that we’re using on The Daily Create
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SoundCloud is very restrictive with free accounts and very expensive for paid features. Free users only get 120 minutes of audio total and can only create 1 group. This means I have to find folks to create these groups for each assignment
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YouTube was an obvious choice since so many people already use it and I just needed to find the best way to visualize a tag. The answer to that was TubePress with allows you to build shortcodes with TONS of options.
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it takes awhile to feed in
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Gravity Forms
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allows us to create a form whose submission automatically creates a new post in draft. The user assigns it a category. All we have to do is decide when it should be published, add the widget/shortcode for visualizing it, and give it a tag. The more submissions we get the more posts will be scheduled in advance and there’s very little turnaround work for us.