Post on 27-Aug-2014
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Foto DNG, from WordPress to InDesign
Second Part, New Products & News/Events
Process new Foto DNG magazineEvery portfolio and tutorial in Foto DNG magazine are layered “by hand”, from scratch, without automation, but there is tree sections benefiting totally or partially from automation● Foto DNG Group in Flickr (previous slides)● New Products (this slides)● News & Events (this slides)
New Products and News/Events
New Products and News/Events● Process is made in Foto DNG server with a custom made
plug-in for WordPress that also has all functions for the magazine.
● All Press Releases are published in category Novedades (News Products) in Foto DNG web.
● Novedades has a custom field with name nombre_marca with brand name in his value.
● This field is used for sort Novedades by brand name.
New Products and News/Events● News and Events are published in category
Noticias/Eventos in Foto DNG web.● Without custom field, Noticias/Eventos will be sort by
published date.● Every post published in WordPress will be sent to Social
Media since option Sharing with WordPress JetPack plug-in.
● We create a schedule with different hours (readers from Europe, America ...) in Buffer.
New Products and News/Events● We create a task in Zappier for every Buffer account
(four), this task check Foto DNG RSS and if found new entries, send it to Buffer (that publish it in scheduled hours).
● We don’t use IFTTT because Buffer option in IFTTT only permit use one account.
● Next (published or programmed in Novedades & Noticias/Eventos) we proceed to export from WordPress to InDesign, with our plug-in.
New Products and News/Events● In plug-in we select category to export and date range (by
default from first month day in current month to last month day).
● Once exported text file (InDesign Tagged Text) from WordPress, in InDesign we go to text box in correct section and import tagged text.
● In Novedades section, then add images.● And process ended with sections Novedades and
Noticias/Eventos formatedd.
Export from WordPress to InDesign
Publish or program new post, in Novedades
category we add custom field with his value (brand
name)
Export from WordPress to InDesign
When is published, will be sent to Social Media with
Sharing option by JetPack
Export from WordPress to InDesign
In Buffer we configure
Social Media Accounts and
Publication Schedules
Export from WordPress to InDesign
We create Zapier tasks for every Buffer account,
that will find new RSS entries and will be send to
Buffer
Export from WordPress to InDesign
From WordPress plug-in we select category and date range and then generate
tagged text file
Export from WordPress to InDesign
From InDesign select exported tagged text file to
import
Export from WordPress to InDesign
And in InDesign we obtain formatted text with
Paragraph and Character Styles, then we add images
and review section
Plug-in for WordPress export
● We create a form with drop down select for sections and two date fields (type="date" for show us a calendar): $dia_desde='01'; $mes_desde=date('m'); $anhio_desde=date('Y'); $bisiesto=date('L'); $dia_hasta=date('t') + $bisiesto; $mes_hasta=date('m'); $anhio_hasta=date('Y');
● This plug-in create a Paragraph and Character definition style predefined in InDesign template.
● We make a query to WordPress database with selected parameters, and we receive published and programmed posts in selected date range and category, ordered by custom field.
Plug-in for WordPress export
$args = array(
'order' => 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'meta_value', 'meta_key' => 'nombre_marca',
'date_query'=> array(
array(
'after' => array('year' => $anhio_desde, 'month' => $mes_desde, 'day' => $dia_desde,),
'before'=> array('year' => $anhio_hasta, 'month' => $mes_hasta, 'day' => $dia_hasta,),
'inclusive' => true,
),
),
'cat' => $cat,
'post_status' => array('publish', 'future'),
'posts_per_page' => $n_post_volcar,
);
query_posts( $args );//We make the query to DB
Plug-in for WordPress export
Walk through result posts (while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();) and process:● Obtain title with get_the_title, content with get_the_content and
post link with get_permalink.● We delete shortcodes with strip_shortcodes● We replace double carriage return to <p></p> with wpautop● We delete HTML tags with wp_kses except allowed tags defined
in a array.● We change to Smart Quotes with wptexturize.● We delete empty spaces, empty paragraphs and clean texts.
Plug-in for WordPress export
● We change characters for his UNICODE equivalents for InDesign ® to <0x00AE> or ñ to <0x00F1> (array with 53 equivalences at this moment).
● We change HTML tags to InDesign tags and predefined estyles <b> to <cTypeface:Bold> and </b> to <cTypeface:> or <h1> to <ParaStyle:articulos\:titular>.
● We create content with title, content and link formatted.● We dump result content to a text file for import in InDesign
news_2014-02-01-to-2014-02-28.txt
Advantages obtained● Novedades and Noticias y Eventos will be published in
web and Social Media.● Export process from WordPress and import in
InDesign, is made in less than two minutes.● Final layout review and images added will be made in
less than two hours (several actions saved for images in Photoshop).
Thanks by reading this slides:
http://www.fotodng.com/foto-dng-de-wordpress-
a-indesign-parte-2-2917.html
Carlos Longarela.
Foto DNG Magzine
http://www.fotodng.com
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