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WP Categories and Posts now has a new page and author. Please visit the new WP Categories and Posts Page on the Phill McDonnell website.
WP Categories and Posts was one of my first plugins I wrote for raproject.
It was quickly overshadowed by Ajax Edit Comments, and I didn’t really touch it after that.
Phil McDonnell approached me last week about taking it over, and I was pleasantly surprised at his eagerness.
We spent a few days exchanging details, and I helped him get it listed on WP Extend.
Features Planned
Here are some of the features Phil plans to add:
- Add the number of posts to each category, like Rants (5), Poetry (3), etc.
- Parameter to limit the number of post displayed
- Parameter to show/hide date display
- Parameter to show/hide parent category name
And here are the features you suggested that may make the cut:
- Create an admin menu with user-definable settings. Ideally a user shouldn’t have to program in a function, but include something like <!–cats_and_posts(args)–> in a page or post.
- Maybe an AJAX implementation which could collapse/expand the index for posts older than a certain date?
Much thanks to Phil for taking this plugin over. Hopefully this neglected plugin will get some nice updates.
If you have any more feature requests, please comment here and I’ll refer Phil to this page.
Visit the Categories and Posts page hosted by Phil.
One Side Note
The plugin page for Categories and Posts hosted here will automatically redirect to Phil’s new plugin page. My apologies in advance for any inconvenience.
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I would just like to say it is an honor to take over one of your first plug-ins. I hope that I can do it justice!
Over the next couple of days I am going to be getting familiar with SVN and the whole plug-in directory over at WordPress and also I am in the middle of renovating my blog, so please bear with me while I get up to speed.
I hope everyone will be happy with me as the new owner for the plug-in and if you have any ideas or features please leave a comment over at the plug-in page on my blog.
Once again, thanks for allowing me this opportunity.
Regards,
Phil
Thank you Phil. I’m sure the users of the plugin will appreciate future updates.
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Hiya all of youz!..
How are yaz doing?
This looks cool so far, what’s up people?
If there’s anyone else here, let me know.
Oh, and yes I’m a real person LOL.
See ya,
tks for the effort you put in here I appreciate it!
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Interesting – This is actually a good discussion to have. Why move to the footer? Because your plugin adds approximately 6 or 7 tags to the header just to work correctly. Page loading starts with all of these tags. Moving some of all of them to the footer speeds up page loading considerably.
AJAX is old… have a look into J QUERY… Ive done it on the live wire section of my site… Looks awesome!!!
Interesting – This is actually a good discussion to have. Why move to the footer
Cheers for the compliment. Actually I don’t really know how to do build my own modules unfortunately. What I’ll do at some point in the near future is take the site to another town in the UK and when I do that I’ll build a module for it. I’m still kind of learning the ropes when it comes to Drupal.
Nice codes. This is very much useful for everyone. Keep it up.
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