syncbox

Per the code in the excellent plugin by Mike Smullin

http://www.mikesmullin.com/2006/05/23/wordpress-plugin-sort-category-posts-by-title/

you can place this before your query and it will sort by post title

<?php add_action(‘pre_get_posts’,’sort_categories_by_title’);

function sort_categories_by_title($x) {
if(is_category()) {
$x->query_vars[‘orderby’] = ‘title’;
$x->query_vars[‘order’] = ‘ASC’;
}
}
?>

If you install the plugin, all your category displayed posts will be alphabetical… by putting it just in the category templates where you want that sorting… you can keep the other categories date based.

Seems to work for me.

When you are seeing “Edit” it typically is a link for YOU (the person logged in). So the code looks something like:

posted by <?php the_author('namefl'); ?> | <?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?> at <?php the_time('g:i a'); ?>  <?php edit_post_link(__('Edit This')); ?>

A separate bit of code:

<div class="feedback">
<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
<?php comments_popup_link(__('Comments (0)'), __('Comments (1)'), __('Comments (%)')); ?>
</div>

provides the link to edit a post. To change the wording of that, just edit the bits inside ‘Comments (0)’ could become

‘hey, there are no comments yet, care to comment?’

and the others ‘Comments (1)’ which is for a single comment could become ‘only one person has made a comment, want to add to that?’ and finally, the third one, which is for more than one comment, could become ‘here’s what everyone is saying’

You don’t have to use the numbers, those (”, ”, ”) are the arguments for comments_popup_link() You can even put an image into the arguments… with something like this:

<?php comments_popup_link(('add a comment? <img src="/wp-content/themes/yourtheme/images/icon-comment2.png" />'), __('someone said <img src="/wp-content/themes/yourtheme/images/icon-comment2.png" /> '), __('what others are saying <img src="/wp-content/themes/yourtheme/images/icon-comment2.png" /> ', 'comments-link')); ?>

HTH

fergbrain, can you show an example where more than one array is added? I’m getting errors trying to modify your php file to do it.

also, you mention “You’ll need to manually add the field to your wp_users table.” Do you mean adding a field that matches the inputName used?

finally, is there a way to use something other than text or textarea to inputType? How would you code up a select menu or checkboxes or radio buttons?

any insight greatly appreciated!

it would be nice if plugin authors actually responded to emails or even comments on their own pages, wouldn’t it? I hope you get an answer. I posted similar questions several times on the plugin author’s page and nada —

Anyone understand how to pull the data contained in the user_extra fields out and display it in an author page? I can’t get this to work, either.

You can easily edit the wp-admin.css file (look in the wp-admin folder) and even the wp-register.php, wp-login.php and various other pages used in the admin app. But be careful. Back up the file BEFORE you modify it so you can replace it if you screw up.

Helpful hint: test your pages using Firefox and get the Web Developer tools for it – using shift+ctrl+f, you can hover over elements and see a very helpful breakdown of the heirarchy of containing elements for that element – which makes it ever so much easier to determine what to modify.

Yes, I managed to get the thing working… thanks