Need a way to drip-feed pages without WordPress

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Need a way to drip-feed pages without WordPress

I would like to be able to do this without using WordPress or Joomla or a complicated CMS.

I just want to "schedule" when an article on a webpage would display,

Maybe like a php script which would look at each page in a list of articles on my site and based on a date range would either show the link to the page or not show the link.

That way, I could put in a batch of articles one day but have their "publication" appear over a week or two, spread out randomly.

I have searched for something like this without any luck, yet.

Thanks for any help or suggestions.

John
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  • Profile picture of the author mgkimsal
    That functionality seems like it's at the very definition of CMS - you want to 'manage' when the info is visible.

    You'd need something that could modify the rest of the site nav to 'know' about the new information, no?

    I'm having trouble envisioning how you'd do this without a CMS, or why you'd want to. What's the issue you have with the existing CMS options?
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt.Lake
    Hi,

    I believe Xsite Pro does this.

    I personally don't use that feature but Xsite pro on the whole is a great product.

    Obviously it might be a more expensive option than you were hoping for, but it does do what you're looking for.

    Matt
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  • Profile picture of the author dollarware
    Thanks, mgkimsal for the response.

    Using WordPress, Joomla and CMSs mean that I have to work within their framework.

    On the site, the Articles might not be the main attraction.

    So I have just a regular site.

    I want to add article on a particular subject so I create a page that lists those articles. Each article would have a link from the "listing" page to its own page which would show the article.

    So only this article listing page would be produced dynamically based on the publish from _date_____ to __date_____ .

    Hope that helps for you to see what I am looking for.

    John
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    • Profile picture of the author mgkimsal
      Originally Posted by dollarware View Post

      Thanks, mgkimsal for the response.

      Using WordPress, Joomla and CMSs mean that I have to work within their framework.

      On the site, the Articles might not be the main attraction.

      So I have just a regular site.

      I want to add article on a particular subject so I create a page that lists those articles. Each article would have a link from the "listing" page to its own page which would show the article.

      So only this article listing page would be produced dynamically based on the publish from _date_____ to __date_____ .

      Hope that helps for you to see what I am looking for.

      John
      OK, I get it. Yeah, it definitely seems like it's something you need a custom developer for. Having said that, based on what you've said, it's not that hard. The devil's in the details. How are you wanting to manage the dates-to-article relationship? And would you want the articles to be inaccessible after the end date, or just not listed on the listing page?
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  • Profile picture of the author dollarware
    Matt, thanks for the reply.

    I dont own XSitePro but it looks good and probably is worth the money.

    But the entire site is wrapped up in XSitePro, I would think.

    I just want to be able to add this into any regular site.

    thanks again,

    John
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  • Profile picture of the author chrisgarrett
    You just need a PHP programmer to do a cheap and simple script, rentacoder or something or even one of the WSO folks. It doesn't even need to be database driven, it could be just a index.php which would check the date and optionally display the newest article. If you didn't want search engines indexing the articles it would need to rename the article file name or change the permissions.

    Personally WP seems cheaper and simpler but I can understand you wanting to avoid software you don't need
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  • Profile picture of the author Johnny Slater
    You don't need to have anything custom designed. Do a search on this forum and you will find quite a few membership scripts that do drip feed (time release) content in various ways.

    Why pay someone to custom code something when there are scripts available that you can use that have already been tested and are known to work properly?
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