Just a brief update: Dan has now coded up a rough and ready plugin which extracts data from the Omeka RSS response format. We chose the RSS one because it contains a reference to a nice 200×200 thumbnail image which Omeka generates. All things being equal we’d rather have used the “dcmes-xml” data (the data is better divided and chunked..) but for some reason this format doesn’t have a reference to the resized image without doing a double or triple call back to other feeds to get that data.
We’ve got two basic methods now running which let you embed Omeka objects within any WordPress page:
[object=sci-fi] returns all objects that have been tagged “sci-fi”
[object=123] returns the specific object with id 123
Initially, we were expecting to jump users across to the Omeka installation when they clicked on “collections” and back to the WP site for anything else. We’ve since decided that rather than having to re-skin an entire second site and suffer things like incorrect permalinks in the global nav and so on, it is easier to script so that our objects are all pulled in to WordPress.
Once we’ve got over this crazy 12 hour build idea, we’ll be working more closely on the WP/Omeka plugin and hopefully releasing it for others to build on.
Here’s a screengrab of our “Featured exhibition” page:
Meanwhile, I’ve been tweaking the CSS, adding that beautiful (but not yet finished!) left-nav and generally tidying stuff up…
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