The Coppit Family Daily News

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.