WordPress and Drupal Plugins Available from Eqentia
Once you install the plugins, there are 2 publish modes: a) automatic, b) curated. In either case, the admin user gets full control on curation from the WP Admin (Edit/Delete/Publish).
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To install, simply click “Add New” plugin and upload the zipped file.
To configure, go to the settings page and add the name of your Eqentia portal (e.g. /portalname) and optionally adjust the polling time. The “default action” determines whether Eqentia headlines are saved as a draft (to be manually added to the widget) or published (so that they appear in the widget as soon as they’re polled).
The widget has a custom data type called “Headline”, which contains the title, a snippet from the body of the article, a link to the article and a source title & link. These are all editable from the “Curate” link for the widget. From that page you can “Publish” or “Unpublish” a headline directly to expose/hide from the widget. Alternatively, an admin can dive in and edit any field from the headline, and apply tags/categorization.
To add the plugin to your layout, the plugin is available as a widget under Appearance > Widget. It can be dragged into any “widgetable” area of your layout. Then, the content that appears on the widget is context-sensitive:
- on a blog post page, the widget displays the most recent headlines with that tag or categorization
- on a search results page, the widget displays the most recent headlines containing the search keyword
- on the main blog page, the widget displays the most recent headlines
Also, each of the 3 views of the headlines is customizable, meaning the header HTML <h1>Recent Headlines</h1> can be modified to suit the use case, and also for cat/tag or search pages, the header HTML can contain a <slug>, meaning the category, tag, or search query can be dropped into the header to make it dynamic. Each of these three views can be configured to show a certain length of snippet from the body of the article, and the number of results to show on each view.
Finally, matching Eqentia connections to tags or categories is simple. The plugin uses existing tags/cats from your blog, and for each headline it matches connections to tags/cats by downcasing the label and removing non-alphanumerics. So “R&D” would match “r & d”, “U.K.” matches “uk”, etc. There is a status page for the widget (left column) that shows the Eqentia connections that are being provided via the feed but not being matched to tags or categories. That may help you to optimizing your tagging practices from your end.
