Category Order 2.0.0 Released
I’ve released a new version of the Category Order Wordpress 2 plugin. This plugin allows the blog administrator to set an explicit ordering, spacing, and indentation of categories in the category list that appears in the sidebar. The administrator specifies the ordering in the new “Category Order” management page. There is also an option for placing the category post count inside the link.
The major new feature of this release is the ability to “fold” indented categories until the parent category is clicked. The plugin also will add up the post counts of the hidden categories and add that to the visible parent category.
New changes:
- Added folding of sub-categories until the user clicks on the parent category. (Thanks to Ana Luiza Bergamini for pointing out the incompatibility of this plugin with the Fold Category List plugin, which caused me to add this functionality to this plugin.)
- Fixed a bug where sub-lists in the original list of categories HTML would cause extra <li>’s to be inserted in the output list. (Thanks to Jessica for the bug report.)
- The order is now stored using category IDs rather than slugs, since the former are unique. Added a warning for the case when two categories have the same slug and the permalinks use slugs rather than IDs. (Thanks to Gautam Jain for the bug report.)
- Fixed a bug where the parser would complain when there were no categories. (Thanks to Jason for the bug report.)
A screenshot shows the management page. Download it on my code page.
July 11th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Thank you very much for this plugin. You saved my day. Really simple, but great.
October 24th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Im yet to try the plugin but I can already tell it doesnt do what Im looking for.. and thats what I wanted to ask — have you ever heard of a plugin/widget that will limit the amount of categories that appear on the site. Im working on a site where the list is simply too long but I cant find a way to shorten its appearance.
Ill install this plugin anyway just to try it out.
November 6th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
I assume that your categories are not structured as sub-categories? If so, you could use the folding capability of the plugin. If not, then you’ll have to find a separate plugin or contract someone to write it for you.