Comments on: WordPress as a Contact Manager

By: Lawer

Lawer — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:22:35 +0000

Nice work, thank you, Mark
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By: Ro

Ro — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:48:34 +0000

The package (set of contributed scripts/templates) idea whereby you take a content node and turn it into something else has been done for years in open source systems like Drupal. Their ecommerce module is basically the same idea. Love seeing it developed in Wordpress though, and I hope people take this in different interesting directions.

The one thing about this particular approach I don’t get — why use custom write panel instead of default custom fields?

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Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:38:42 +0000

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By: andoo

andoo — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:48:55 +0000

I think this plugin is not meant to be used on a public basis. But for a closed group of users it might be a cool solution.

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Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:00:21 +0000

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Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:49:40 +0000

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Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:55:11 +0000

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By: Arthur

Arthur — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:43:24 +0000

It’s a very useful theme. I’d like to use it for an organization of students at university where I’m studying at.
Thanks

By: John

John — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:00:28 +0000

Very handy theme/plugin. Well documented, too. It took me less than 30 minutes to get a fresh install of WP, the theme and all the plugins.

Well done.

By: Trisha

Trisha — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:24:31 +0000

@Tadd - any system - private or not - can be hacked into. The Europe law is designed to protect someone who’s data has been stored by another person, sometimes without their knowledge or permission. For example, in this type of case (a contact manager), if someone had stored all of your contact information in it, then another person hacked it and sold all of your personal information to spammers and junk mailers, how would you feel? That’s the invasion of privacy that the law was designed to protect against.

All that being said, I think this is a terrific plugin/theme that may have other very useful benefits particularly if I run it on my own Mac’s web server app locally instead of at my hosted account, which would thus protect it from hacking.

By: Gadget5

Gadget5 — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:30:41 +0000

I really pinched myself when i saw wordpress script for the first time LOL its such a good script. Plugins make it more useful.

By: Tadd

Tadd — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:21:57 +0000

Are you serious about this plug!? That’s amazing! I think I’ll definately look into this.

And what does it matter how you store data? This isn’t an illegal way to steal contacts or something … I would imagine that it would be akin to Outlook contacts .. only for multiple parties. How would this infringe on anyone’s rights? It’s not public - it’s a private system.

By: Hypotheek

Hypotheek — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:05:03 +0000

I really like the concept behind “WordPress Contact Manager” and the way this is achieved by using several plugins. These plugins on there own are very useful but by combining individual functionality you can create really useful applications

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:04:30 +0000

About the “custom posting interface”, you could use my plugin TDO Mini Forms which allows you to create a custom posting interface, rather than put together a new one. You could certainly have all the custom fields and post content you use orgainsed in one neat form.