orion_joel
01-02-2009, 12:34 AM
Hi,
I just had this totally random thought of what i would like to do with a blog, but am really not sure if it is something that is possible or can be done.
I just realized that every time you post a new blog post it is the first thing that people see when they visit your site. This is not such a problem if you just make random non linear posts, about varying subjects and such. However what if you wanted to create a blog that had a definite path that it followed, for example a 30 day challenge or a in depth series, that landing on a post in the middle would kind of throw someone off the whole point.
So my question, is there a script or maybe a wordpress add on that allows for every new visitor to see the first post upon their first visit and then each subsequent visit would show the next post as long as it was published. I guess this could also work by an option which reverses the order your posts are shown, so the oldest one is always at the front, however this would probably not work for long time, readers always needing to go to the end.
I would guess it would have to work with cookies to define whether or not a visitor had been their before, and would also probably rely on a bit of creative programming, however i think that this could be potentially a way that except for maybe the longer term readers, would keep the blog fresh longer. Because if you have something like 60 posts already, they are going to be seeing new posts every time they visit for at least 60 visits, and potentially longer because by the time they have seen all of those there will be at least some more ready for them.
I just had this totally random thought of what i would like to do with a blog, but am really not sure if it is something that is possible or can be done.
I just realized that every time you post a new blog post it is the first thing that people see when they visit your site. This is not such a problem if you just make random non linear posts, about varying subjects and such. However what if you wanted to create a blog that had a definite path that it followed, for example a 30 day challenge or a in depth series, that landing on a post in the middle would kind of throw someone off the whole point.
So my question, is there a script or maybe a wordpress add on that allows for every new visitor to see the first post upon their first visit and then each subsequent visit would show the next post as long as it was published. I guess this could also work by an option which reverses the order your posts are shown, so the oldest one is always at the front, however this would probably not work for long time, readers always needing to go to the end.
I would guess it would have to work with cookies to define whether or not a visitor had been their before, and would also probably rely on a bit of creative programming, however i think that this could be potentially a way that except for maybe the longer term readers, would keep the blog fresh longer. Because if you have something like 60 posts already, they are going to be seeing new posts every time they visit for at least 60 visits, and potentially longer because by the time they have seen all of those there will be at least some more ready for them.