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Zone Manager (Zoninator)
By Automattic
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Description
This plugin is designed to help you curate your content. It lets you assign and order stories within zones that you create, edit, and delete, and display those groupings of related stories on your site.
This plugin was originally built by Mohammad Jangda in conjunction with William Davis and the Bangor Daily News.
Features
Add, edit, and delete zones.
Add and remove posts (or any custom post type) to or from zones.
Order posts in any given zone.
Limit capabilities on who can add, edit, and delete zones vs add content to zones.
Locking mechanism, so only one user can edit a zone at a time (to avoid conflicts).
Idle control, so people can’t keep the zone locked.
Function Reference
Get an array of all zones:
z_get_zones()
Get a single zone, accepts either ID or slug:
z_get_zone( $zone )
Get an array of ordered posts in a given zone, accepts either ID or slug:
z_get_posts_in_zone( $zone )
Get a WP_Query object for a given zone, accepts either ID or slug:
z_get_zone_query( $zone );
More functions listed in functions.php.
Screenshots
Create and manage your zones and content through a fairly intuitive and familiar interface.
Zone editing
Use the Zone Posts widget in the widgets area.
Output of the zone posts widgets.
Installation
Unzip contents and upload to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Go to Dashboard > Zones to create and manage your zones, and easily search for and add existing posts.
Use the plugin’s handy API functions to add zones to your theme that retrieve and display your content. Or, for those who are a bit code-averse, go to Appearance-Widgets and add Zone Posts widgets to display your zone posts in your sidebar or footer. The widget will pull the posts from the chosen zone.
Usage examples
You can work with a zone’s posts either as an array or a WP_Query object.
WP_Query
$zone_query = z_get_zone_query( 'homepage' );
if ( $zone_query->have_posts() ) :
while ( $zone_query->have_posts() ) : $zone_query->the_post();
echo '<li>' . get_the_title() . '</li>';
endwhile;
endif;
wp_reset_query();
Posts Array
$zone_posts = z_get_posts_in_zone( 'homepage' );
foreach ( $zone_posts as $zone_post ) :
echo '<li>' . get_the_title( $zone_post->ID ) . '</li>';
endforeach;
FAQ
How do I disable the locking feature?
You can use a filter:
add_filter( 'zoninator_zone_max_lock_period', 'z_disable_zoninator_locks' );
How do I change the locking feature settings?
Filter the following and change according to your needs:
Number of seconds a lock is valid for, default 30: zoninator_zone_lock_period
Max idle time in seconds: zoninator_zone_max_lock_period
Reviews
Reliable and scalable
cjaimet
October 19, 2018
We have been using this plugin for five years on 20 major news sites and it is integral to our daily work.
Good!
1
September 3, 2016
I have a idea for my blog, where some topic divided to few different posts ans user can freely navigate between different parts of it.
This plugin helped me a lot!
Thanks developer!
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Contributors & Developers
“Zone Manager (Zoninator)” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.Contributors
Automattic
Mohammad Jangda
WordPress VIP
pkevan
Bradford Campeau-Laurion
Jeff Bowen
nickdaugherty
Josh Betz
Gary Jones
“Zone Manager (Zoninator)” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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Changelog
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Version 0.11.0
Last updated 3 months ago
Active installations 2,000+
WordPress version
6.4 or higher
Tested up to 6.9.5
PHP version
7.4 or higher
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Mohammad Jangda
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pkevan
Bradford Campeau-Laurion
Jeff Bowen
nickdaugherty
Josh Betz
Gary Jones
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