Competition Task Overview

On a wordpress multisite, users should be able to subscribe to categories and/or custom taxonomies on subsites, and the posts from the subscribed feeds should appear on the main wordpress site.

We need a plugin to enable this behaviour.

Details

We are using Wordpress multisite as an intranet. The main site is a "user dashboard" and is the landing page for users signing into the site. Sub-sites are managed by site admins, and can be protected to only allow certain users to see private content (this requirement is covered by this plugin: http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/membership/). 

Users should be able to subscribe to a feed on any category or custom taxonomy page they have access to. Once subscribed, any content posted to a subscribed feed should appear on their dashboard.

Users should also be able to manage their subscriptions (i.e. view a list of them and unsubscribe from any of them) from a page on the user dashboard site.

This challenge should provide the architecture for following requirements:

Function Requirements

• Subscribe button on any category or custom taxonomy page on any subsite
• Posts on subscribed feeds appear on the user's dashboard (host site) in widgets
• Users can manage their subscriptions on a "My Subscriptions" page on the host site
• Dashboard should load in less than 2 seconds (widgets may use ajax to avoid slowing down the page).

Extra credit

• Display a searchable list of all public feeds on subsites.
• Highlight unread posts in the dashboard and have a "Mark all as Read" button to clear highlights

Assumptions

• The theme already exists, the feeds will appear in widgets on the front page. (For now just place them in the TwentyFourteen theme - https://wordpress.org/themes/twentyfourteen)
• Users can only see a feed page that they have access to
• Public feeds will be attached to the Access Level "Public" in the Membership plugin
• Community updates feed is based on posts attached to categories on subsites
• Channels feed is based on posts attached to a custom taxonomy called "Channels"
• News and trending topics do not need to be covered by this plugin

Wordpress Plugin Development Guideline

http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin

Final Submission Guidelines

• Application Design Specification
• TCUML
• Develop Challenge Spec (Assembly, Code and/or UI Prototype)