Problem
The media publications of the faculty at Pardee are an important selling point to the school. They needed a solution to highlight posts in their site and associate them with their staff.
Solution
I created a category to isolate their “in the media posts” from their other posts. I then used these posts to create custom queries and attach them around the site using hooks.
Homepage
The homepage is utilizing the BU Landing Page Plugin. Since this plugin is utilized university wide, we are not able to edit it on a site by site biases. I solved this problem by attaching the “in the media” section to a hook on the content area.
I created CMB2 boxes to allow the client to have control over the following:
- Change the title of the section
- Add a description to the section
- Set a custom link for a view all button
- Choose to show the most recent posts or hand curate them
- If curated is choosen a selection of posts in that category appears.
Profiles
The profiles page was created using the BU Profiles Plugin. This plugin creates a custom post type called profiles. The posts are associated with the profiles using a cmb2 box so if a user goes to a faculty’s profile they see only the posts associated with that faculty.
