Determine approach for Partners page

[clatwell]

Requirement

• On the main goodbids.org site, Site Visitors can see a GOODBIDS Partners page that serves as an index of Business Development Partners in the GB network.
• Site Visitors can click on a Partner listed on the GOODBIDS Partners to view a detail page for that Partner.
• GB would also like to store data about Business Development Partners that doesn't display on the website but is visible to Network Admins / Site Admins for the main site in the WP Admin.

Approach Questions

• My initial thinking here was that Business Development Partners would be a Custom Post Type enabled only at the network level. This would give us the ability to build an index page and detail page for each Business Development Partner.
• I believe there's an open question about whether it's possible to have a CPT enabled only at the network level (cc @bd-viget)
• We need to determine if this will be possible, and if not, come up with a different strategy to satisfy the requirements above.
• Based on the approach, I'll create a follow-up ticket to create / style these two pages (BDP Index, BDP Detail) along with data requirements for BDPs

[nathan-schmidt-viget]

@clatwell @bd-viget Did some research on this and I am not finding an option/filter to have a custom post type only on the network level. Once you create a post type it is for all sites. But I think there are two solutions.

Unregister Partners on Child Theme

We would register the custom partners post type in our plugin and in our child Goodbids theme unregister the post type. The downside to this is that we have to unregister it every site and I am not sure if that would cause any problems with the database.

Hide Partners on child sites

This would be very straightforward. We would register the custom partners but would remove the admin navigation to get to the post type on all sites but the network(main) site. This would keep the DBs for all the site the same, but nonprofit admin users would not be able to navigate to the partners section. Even if they did somehow find the URL in the admin there would not be any content. If we really wanted to we could take it one step further and only allow some users to be able to access the partners section on the admin.

I think only showing the admin menu on the network level makes the most sense to me. Maybe we can chat about it in our next standup.

[clatwell]

+1 to discussing in standup. "Unregister" feels like the more foolproof approach from a Nonprofit Site Admin perspective than "Hide", but I don't know enough on the WP side to make a concrete recommendation.

[nathan-schmidt-viget]

I did a quick test of unregister Partners on Child Theme and it seems to work just fine. The other idea I just tried (not sure why I did not think about this before) is adding a if ( is_main_site() ) to the call that registers Partners. That seems to work and it is only registered on the main site which saves the call to unregister on child sites.

[clatwell]

@nathan-schmidt-viget Ok, fantastic! I'll spin up some quick tickets for the Partners CPT, index, and detail page when I'm out of meetings at ~2pm.

[clatwell]

@nathan-schmidt-viget - I'm going to move this ticket over to "In Review" for now while we wait for final requirements data and display requirements from GB. I'll add those details to follow-up tickets and we can work from those to get this over the finish line.

[nathan-schmidt-viget]

@clatwell the main partners post type has been merged with main. We can now add on to that with custom fields and templates.

[shascher]

Created a Partner as a test: https://goodbids-develop.go-vip.net/partner/viget/