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#Simple Album Proofing

Notes and ideas for building a simple album proofing plugin for wordpress

I would like to create a plugin that gives clients a simple way to create and manage album proofing from within a wordpress website.

###Components

• Custom Post Type

• Custom Post Status

  • Help distinguish albums that are in review, approved, or completed.

• Custom Taxonomy for organizing albums

• User access control

  • Perhaps we can simply use the built in password protected post, but this may need to be customized to make it easier for the end user.

• Custom Post Meta

  • Most likely replace the default post editor with custom meta fields to hold the album proofs and provide other information:
  • Custom message, header image
  • Album Spreads
  • Album Size
  • Album Page Count (auto generated via # of images?)
  • Album Print details (cover, paper & bidding information)
  • Album Price?
  • Album Printer (Private?)
  • Social Share? (After approval)
  • Private notes

• I am thinking of using post attachment pages for the individual spread presentation to allow commenting and feedback on a spread by spread basis.

• Perhaps add some sort of ajax or animation to add some visual appeal and sense of "pages" in a spread.

• Easy navigation between the spreads and a quick way to return to an overview of all the spreads.

• A way to comment on the whole book in general and a way to comment on each spread individually.

• The ability to mark spreads as completed or the whole book as approved.

Bigger Ideas

• A way to have those comments and responses to those comments emailed to commentators and admins.
• A way for a book to be automatically approved after each spread is marked as completed.
• Make smaller pdf or sharable versions and files available at a certain point.
• Make sending emails and passwords to clients easy form the admin area. Once click "Join Me" emails.