WordPress - BASH

This tool maps any WordPress website to your predefined tree structure

As everything is a file, a tree of files is ideal to store your content in a pretty organized way. Thanks file system =D

Each subdirectory can contain:

• a .config file which specifies a list of WordPress category IDs, plus other directives
• other subdirectories
• both

data
├── 7
├── 1_Genres
│   ├── 11
│   ├── 12
│   └── 13
├── 2_Sport
│   ├── 20
│   └── 1_Highlights
│       └── 21
└── 3_Talkshows
    ├── 1_Talk A
    │   └── 83
    └── 2_Talk C
        ├── 12
        └── 32

data/ folder

This is the root of your submenus structure. So start making some directories!

Make sure to name them starting with the prefix N_. This will guarantee your sorting order, achieved with a simple sort on a simple find output.

Where you want your items to be, place a .config

configs are written in JSON as it is easily human readable

id

The mandatory field is id and it's an array of category IDs

{
    "id": [
        11,
        12,
        { "id": 13, "name": "Fantasy" }
    ]
}

The script fetches one time per each specified ID, saving the corresponding JSON. This is done in order to virtually multiply the per_page limit

Whether the name field is specified, a main_category field is added to the post entity. This leaves the WordPress categories field untouch for further usage

useful fields

Either one of those is required

• days which specify the maximum age relative to the current day. The ?after parameter of the REST Api is used.
• max limits the fetched elements in the submenu. The ?per_page parameter of the REST Api is used.

other fields

• exclude is useful to fetch the categories specified in id but excluding posts across multiple categories included in this array.

{
    "id": [ 11,12 ],
    "exclude": [ 30 ]
}

API Link

DOMAIN= DAYS= LIMIT= wget \ $DOMAIN/wp-json/wp/v2/posts\ \ ?_fields\=id,date,modified,title,categories,acf,featured_media \ &after\="$(date --date '$DAYS days ago' --iso-8601)"T00:00:00 \ &per_page=${LIMIT} \ &page=1 \ | jq

TODO

The page management is not implemented, so it's possible to gather maximum 100 posts per category (as explained with the id field)