Does anyone have any idea how to modify the Recommendations Module to manually enter the number of parts and/or an approximate word count? Or if its even possible? It's not a huge priority as I can always give that information in my description, but I'm using the Word Count Mod and it would be neat if I could sort recommended stories by approximate length the same as on-site stories. Suggestions?
I think you'd have to edit the submit recommendation form to accept a word count, and you'd also have to make a new field in the database that corresponds. Then you'd have to edit the files to make the word count show up on the site (if you wanted) and then add it to the skins. Then, depending on how all that was done, you might also have to rewrite browse.php so that it recognized the word count for the recs as you had created it.
Maybe I will try this. It might be useful. I run a site that is only recommendations, using that module (classics.dracoandginny.com). Although, like the parent site, we have our categories based on length (something that on the original site goes back to when there was no word count or it was unreliable or something; before my time).
Sounds complicated, but I think it would be a great thing to be able to do. I'm just going through to add my recs now and wishing I had some way to indicate length. Obviously manually entering word counts would probably be a pain for general use as the count is not always obvious, but for a personal recs list or as an optional addition it would be neat. Please keep me updated if you try to do it.
