taija/ce-custom-functionality

Wordpress plugin for Continuing Education custom functions

Continuing Education Custom Functions Plugin

This plugin provides custom functions needed for the Continuing Education website to be integrated with our main WordPress website. It also provides a widget that can be used to display posts linked to a CustomPress custom post type using CustomPress taxonomy.

##Settings

After activation, settings for the plugin can be updated via a submenu "CE Custom Functions" under the main administrative Settings menu. Available settings:

###CampusCE settings

• CampusCE data URL - The URL used to retrieve CampusCE data
• CampusCE user key - The special user key that is required to use the data URL
• CustomPress post type - The post type created in CustomPress plugin.
• CustomPress taxonomy - The taxonomy created in CustomPress plugin.
• CustomPress field ID - The field ID created in CustomPress plugin.

##Functions

###CampusCE functions All return an object generated from the data XML as returned from CampusCE. All are static methods of the plugin's CE_Custom_Functions class.

Note: The functions now distinguish between courses and classes. Per the data, classes are an offering of a course. As such, pulling classes will return all available offerings of a course.

• cecf_get_courses_by_category_id($category_id)

  Returns array of course objects. Course object contains CourseID, Title, WebDescr, CategoryID, and NewTag data members.

• cecf_get_classes_by_category_id($category_id)

  Returns array of classes. Class data is directly as returned from CampusCE.

• cecf_get_category_by_id($category_id)

  Returns category object. Category data is directly as returned from CampusCE.

• cecf_get_course_by_id($course_id)

  Removed as did not return expected results.

###Example usage

Frontend example

include_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/plugin.php' );
if ( is_plugin_active('ce-custom-functions/ce-custom-functionality.php') ) { 
	$courses = CE_Custom_Functions::cecf_get_courses_by_category_id("1882");
	$category = CE_Custom_Functions::cecf_get_category_by_id("1882");
	$classes = CE_Custom_Functions::cecf_get_classes_by_category_id("1882");
}

Widget

###Acceptance criteria

• Admin should be able to create a cross-reference between blog categories and class categories
• Blog titles from applicable category should display on sidebar
• Should link to full story in blog section
• Should be link to category page for more stories