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5:25 pm
October 9, 2009 |
Greg Wilcox
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| | Hi there everyone, my name's Greg Wilcox. I'm the web editor for the UVU Review, and we just switched to CoPress. So far we're liking it far better than CP, needless to say. My question was given to me by a colleague on staff who wondered about creating a link on our site to pdf archives of our newspaper for each week of publication. I'm still not sure if we want to do this, but I'm exploring the possibiliity. If you want to see an example, here is a link to neighboring BYU's newspaper, and you can see at the bottom a link that says 'DU on PDF.' Is there either a plug-in or good way to go about with wordpress that any of you are aware of? |
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2:22 pm
October 10, 2009 |
Daniel Bachhuber
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| | Hey Greg, Great question. An easy way to do this would be to create a folder called "pdfs" off the domain of your website, and then just upload the PDFs there. That would give the reader a really simple, albeit more like a filesystem, way of looking through the PDF archives. You can even sort PDFs by year and month to make filtering easier. If you wanted to take that one step further, you could set up an archive page (that you'd have to manually update) where you could list all of the editions by date, etc. Buzzsaw Magazine has one example Hope that helps. I don't know of a WordPress plugin that would do anything automagically, but it'd be worth googling. | |
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6:02 pm
October 10, 2009 |
laurenmichell
| | San Luis Obispo, Calif. | | | Member | posts 21 |
| | Greg! I misunderstood your question when you asked on Facebook. I thought you wanted to categorize your posts by issue date. I didn't realize you were talking about PDFs. In that case: try Issuu.com The Mustang Daily uses this. You can see our PDF archive here: http://issuu.com/mustangdaily Every day, we embed the day's PDF here: http://mustangdaily.net/virtualmustang/ Issuu converts the PDF to flash, but your readers can still download the original PDF or print it out. You might want to check it out. Good luck! | |
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10:05 pm
October 10, 2009 |
William P. Davis
| | Veazie, Maine | | | Admin | posts 65 |
| | Greg: I've done something similar to BYU at http://mainecampus.com/print-edition/. If you're interested, e-mail me at will [at] copress.org, and I can send you the code. You just upload the pdf and a thumbnail to the server, and the page is updated automatically. | |
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2:28 am
October 13, 2009 |
Greg Wilcox
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| | Great! Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Will, I emailed you and I'll be checking out your suggestions Lauren and Daniel. Good to have such a great forum for these questions. |
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