Title: Quiz/Algorithm Developer Question
Last modified: July 11, 2019

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# Quiz/Algorithm Developer Question

 *  [trosemedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trosemedia/)
 * (@trosemedia)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quiz-algorithm-developer-question/)
 * Hello All,
 * I’m trying to figure out how to create a system where people take a quiz and 
   it lands on a certain blog page that fits the criteria they filled out. If they
   don’t like the blog they can, retry and get another answer or similar answer 
   without retaking the quiz.
 * Example: if someone took a Disney character quiz, they result may be Mickey, 
   Donald, Minnie and Goofy. Their results land to a blog that says You are Mickey.
   There’s an option that says “Not for you?” They click that and it gives them 
   Donald but not Minnie and Goofy.
 * Any idea how I could develop this?

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quiz-algorithm-developer-question/#post-11719758)
 * You need to somehow correlate quiz answers to specific query arguments. For example,
   each answer could correlate to a specific tag term. You can then query for posts
   that have any of the tag terms determined from answers. The problem is there 
   is no way to order the results by “best fit” that I know of, especially when 
   using the usual WP_Query class to get relevant posts.
 * You could create a usort() callback to help you order the results by best fit,
   which would be posts with the most matching terms. This is very inefficient, 
   but as long as there are not hundreds of matching posts it should be OK.
 * The “Not for you?” link would end up doing the entire query and sort all over
   again. It’s easy to specify rejected posts be excluded from the new query, but
   you need some way to keep track of which posts were rejected by each user. User
   meta can work for this. You should have a “Start over” link that clears user 
   meta and brings them back to the quiz beginning.
 * It may also be a good idea to somehow limit how many posts are rejected before
   the algorithm gives up because subsequent results would be poor quality matches.
   For example, give up on suggestions if there is only one matching term in any
   matched post.
 *  Thread Starter [trosemedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trosemedia/)
 * (@trosemedia)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quiz-algorithm-developer-question/#post-11720304)
 * Thank you! I am new to wordpress and coding, I realize this is ambitious but 
   I’m going to try. Any advice or guidance to achieve this helps.
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quiz-algorithm-developer-question/#post-11723286)
 * Welcome to the WP community then! One thing you’ll soon learn is WP people are
   picky about letter case in “WordPress” 🙂 There’s even a function that auto-capitalizes
   the P in the word “WordPress” that may occur in post content called `capital_P_dangit()`
 * I firmly believe the best way to learn is pick a small, real project and dive
   in. It’ll be frustrating at times, but you end up learning what you need to know
   and avoid much of what you don’t need to know. The key to this approach is having
   good references. Almost all the reference you need is linked from [https://developer.wordpress.org/](https://developer.wordpress.org/).
   Other than [https://php.net/](https://php.net/).
 * The first thing you will want to do is [setup a localhost site](https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/tutorials/installing-a-local-server/)
   you can play with without fear of breaking a production site. Besides the packages
   listed in the link, Local by Flywheel is very popular.
 * Once you have a local WP running, create a child theme in which you can place
   all of your custom code without risking it being overwritten by updates. There
   is never any reason to alter core code, and you must avoid altering other’s themes
   and plugins as well. All customizing is accomplished through action and filter
   hooks, or through child theme CSS and templates.
 * Most important in coding is to enjoy doing it. Enjoy the small triumph in getting
   that one line of code to do exactly what you want.

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