
Description of terms
- Page
- post
- a Chapter in digitally published wook (web book)
- text
- URL
Rules for making the publication engine
- 1 chapter of text corresponds to a WordPress “Post”
- The published Post can be fitted on page (optional), or let scroll vertically (a bigger challenge involving external factors such as different devices and reading software)
- all Posts receive a automatically generated, unique URL from WordPress, at the time of publishing
- the URL stays same throughout the lifetime of the publication
- Page means same as a unique URL; a page is physically a view to the book, plot-wise this corresponds to a certain act of story-telling in the book
Functional Requirements of WP Book
- linking of pages is always intact, regardless of any state of page(s) Visibility attribute
- linking of pages is always intact, even though there would (not yet) exist a ‘successor page’ (the next page)
- whenever a next page appears, the successor link is put in place on the predecessing page
- supports publishing a book, one chapter at a time, with any number of days in between publications
- intermix of other content (WordPress publications) may happen between chapters
Suggested ideas for solving this
- a plugin, or some kind of importer
- importer needs to work with a exportable format that people are actually capable of doing from whatever their book editing software is..
- a plugin that modifies the WP backend’s core code in Publishing
- supports “tags” for different publication “buckets” — ie WordPress workflow types
- edit, rename, transparently the tags themselves – they are mere metadata
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