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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: 1.5 Loop exampleThanks for having a look Kafkaesqui. What I needed to add, but didn’t think was relevant, was that I’m doing this via the Smarty template engine of WPMU. But it may be, which kind of leaves me stumped.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WP 1.5 show/hide categoriesKitten … Thanks for this but I’m afraid there’s a bit of a conceptual leap for happening here. The barebones example of the 1.5 loop in the codex would benefit from just such an example. Could you possibly illustrate what you mean?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: ‘Show Categories’ in WP1.5Please see post http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic.php?id=22147#post-127173 which may provide a solution.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WP 1.5 show/hide categoriesI can’t find any integration of Kitten’s show/hide categories plugin in 1.5, which is a bit of suprise (it may just be me not looking hard enough). Anyway, in the absence of an apparent solution I’ve made minor modifications to her show_categories plugin which appears to make it compatible with WP 1.5.
It seems to have been a table variables issue, i.e. changing all references to $tableposts to $wpdb->posts and $tablepost2cat to $wpdb->post2cat appears to have done the trick. I think that the global variable declarations for $tableposts and $tablepost2cat at the top of both plugin functions were no longer relevant so I removed them. I suspect WP1.5 contains native functions which could improve the efficiency of the script for parsing the cats array but I’ll leave that job to someone who knows 1.5 better than me:)
I include the modified show_categories plugin script below. It would be nice to find this as standard WP functionality in the near future (or that I was wrong and it’s actually already there but undocumented) because it increases template design flexibility no end.
[Moderated: Script code removed. Please use http://paste.uni.cc to post long code examples.]
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: ‘Show Categories’ in WP1.5I asked the same question of Kitten and she replied that the native functions of 1.5 should be able to do much of what her plugin did and so she has no plans to update her plugin. I’ve posted a query requesting an example of using native 1.5 functions which are the equivalent of show/hide categories.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: wp_get_single_postMany thanks Kafkaesqui
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Get (single) article content by post title?Absolutely brilliant! alphaoide. Thank you for the incredibly speedy response.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: MultiBlog – Anyone working on it?The problem is the term multi-blog means different things to different people. I accept there are alternative systems which support multiple blogs but they are all designed with small number of users and blogs in mind. Now picture a scenario where each student in a college or university is entitled to a blog, say 6-7000 students plus say 1000 staff. Who wants to have to manually create and maintain that lot? … that’s what most blog engines supporting multiple blogs expect you to do. However, visit blogger.com and voila! a few details and you’re in business. The first open source blog engine that supports such enterprise level scalability will clean up … and still be as usable for those who just want a more modest personal publishing solution.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: MultiBlog – Anyone working on it?OK … point taken … never used a Wiki before but have now signed up. It seems to me that a multi-user WordPress is critical to its future. The point of my previous anonymous post was that the WordPress MU announcement gives the impression of a coherent development multi blog generating activity. Yet when I look at the Wiki I can find no mention of this work? So someone like me who is evaluating different open source candidates for large scale adoption in say a university finds it hard to come to any decisions. I really want to use WordPress but to scale up it’s use for potentially thousands of users the process has got to be automated, e.g. . authenticate against LDAP database, authorize via student record database, automatically generate blog, e.g. http://www.mydomain.ac.uk/wordpress/myusername. At the same time we need the facility for external users to sign up for a blog by filling in a simple form, e.g. name of blog, user id, password and that’s it.