Category Order
5 May 2005 10:03 am
With the blessing of Pericat, I modified her perisort.php plugin to give it a user-interface within the WordPress menus.
To download, right click and select ‘Save As’: Explicit Category Order
Quick Usage:
# Drop categoryOrder.php in WordPress 1.5+ Plugin directory, and activate it
# Navigate to ‘Manage’ -> ‘Category Order’
# Enter comma and space seperated order of category slugs (available in drop down menu) with Keywords for formatting.
# If your top level categories are empty, you might need to change the function call in your sidebar.php file to: wp_list_cats('hide_empty=0');
# I call my categories with wp_list_cats('sort_column=name'); so that my list defaults to alphabetical when I haven’t set an explicit category order.
Example: by-course, CHILD, appetizers, salad-and-side-dishes, breakfast, BREAK, by-cuisine, CHILD, asian, cuban, indian
This plugin is in use at Cara Dow’s Recipes
Keywords:
* CHILD - flags the next category (and any subsequent categories) as sub-categories.
* TOP - flags the next category (and any subsequent categories) as top-level. Immediately rewinds to original starting level. Remains in effect until the next keyword.
* BACKUP - rewinds one level of nesting. Multiple BACKUPs are okay, though if you rewind your list beyond its original starting level, the extra calls will be ignored.
* BREAK - Similar to TOP as immediately rewinds to original starting level, but also inserts a gap before the next category.
To revert to original list, update your category order with just a space, or deactivate the plugin.
Known issues: This plugin only works if you are using permalinks.
64 Responses to “Category Order”
Oh, very cool! I can make it public now.
I’m more of a her than a he, but as this IS teh intarnets…
I have tried the plugin. Everything looks normal after I installed it. But after I activate the new category order, it simply did a no show in the sidebar. Any suggestions?
Developer’s Note: I emailed this person and got ‘Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently’ response back from gmail. My first suggestion would be to leave a working email address so I can help.
Hi, I downloaded your plugin and had the same result as the person listed above. All the categories disapeared from the home page. Any suggestions?
What function are you using in your sidebar to list the categories?
caradow.com is using:
wp_list_cats('hide_empty=0');You might need this if your higher level categories are empty.
Hi, I also have the “all categories disappearing” problem. I only have one level of categories, and I already tried wp_list_cats(’hide_empty=0′); even the preview in “manage category order” is empty.
I was able to replicate the ‘all categories disappearing’ problem (my first bug is becoming famous) by turning off permalinks on my site.
I’ll see if I can’t make this work without having to use permalinks.
Thanks for the feedback.
Wow this was the easiest to install plugin ever! Worked brilliantly…I have a quesiton. Is there any way to force a category to show even if there are no posts? Sorry if I missed something simple.
My current structure is
-Personal (1)
-James Gourlay (1)
I would like it to show
-Personal (1)
-Websites
—James Gourlay (1)
Thanks for your help!
Sorry, there was a problem with your comment box scrolling all over the place and it didn’t show it the way I wanted it to be:
I would like it to show
-Personal (1)
-Websites
- -James Gourlay (1)
It still didn’t work right. There should be a new line before –James Gourlay
I was just trying to show it indented and underneath it’s parent category Websites.
That worked just great … Took me a while to figure out the permlink thing though. COuld you add that to the “read me” file. It’ll help others in future.
Many, many, many thanks,
Dan
ok, there is a problematic regex in function perisort that never finds any matching strings formed from the $sortkeys array when there are any characters btw …index.php?cat…, for instance ‘/multi’.
W/out rethinking the whole logic, I solved it for me by changing this line as show $searchterm = “/\/(index.php\/multi)?(\?)?” . $sortkeys[$k] . “(\/)?” title=/”;
I’m not sure why all those characters are being searchin on whn it seems all that’s needed is ‘cat=###’ ???
THE ABOVE SHOULD READ …index.php<HERE>?cat…
THE ABOVE SHOULD READ …index.php
?cat…anyway, between the .php and the ?cat
further to above, wondering if it’s safer to replace index.php with a call to get_settings(’blogfilename’)
Was the disappearing links problem ever resolved?
I’ve installed you plugin and everything looks ok in the GUI.
But then nothing showed up on my site. My entire category/archives/admin list is gone from the sidebar. then when I deactivated the plug-in the list didn’t come back.
Any help or advice you can offer would be great thanks.
Errol
Great plugin! Worked flawlessly. Thanks buzolich.
Hi Thad, all,
One of the things I don’t like about the Explicit Category Order plugin is the textual language for specifying the category ordering. After emailing pericat a few times, I’ve come up with an alternative implementation that uses a GUI to set the ordering. Although I’ve tried to make my version functionally the same, pericat feels that there have been enough changes to warrant a fork of the code.
If you’re interested, here is a post on the Wordpress forums about it.
You GUI looks great. I should have you do all my projects
Thank you, your work is much appreciated!
I clicked on the link to download but all I saw was gibberish. Your plugin seems to be the solution to what I have been looking for, how to categorize things my way, not by name or id. Pleas get the link working again.
Try right clicking and using the save as option under the context menu. The file is a zip file of a php document. If there is a better or more standard way to host this file, let me know and I’ll make the change.
Thanks for answering at all, buzolich, I feel like such an idiot.
Oops, I have the disappearing problem too. I still have not really gotten into permalinks, but they seem to be popular for some reason (yeah I’m new at this thing if it wasn’t apparent already). The blog isn’t really public yet, anyway, will try it without them. Did you get that one fixed, buzolich? I’m still interested in the plugin with permalinks if it can work that way. I think I tried Coppit’s plugin too, but didn’t understand heads or tails of the thing, couldn’t find the error in the code and couldn’t post on his blog. Am getting a headache over the different bits of code that are in my way, it seems that there are a hundred problems to solve until I can say, “I did it myyyy waaaay!” Hope everything is well with you.
Great plugin indeed. There’s only a lack I’d like to point out: your plugin isn’t XHTML 1.0 Transitional. After giving it a try on my blog and then checking for html validity, I’ve been getting many errors, mainly because no tags were added. I ended up with a bad category structure which is important for the seo aspect of my website.
Hi, I want to list categories by comma, eg: cat1,cat2,cat3
How do i do that? Is it possiblie?
Thanks
Marirs
Hello,
I’m also having names of categories disappearing from the page. By turning on permalink, you mean by checking Options –> Permalinks and see whether any of the options are checked right? (Default, Date and name based, Numeric, and Custom) Other than this am I missing any other place where permalinks can be turned on?
I am pretty sure that I am using permalink because the post URL are showing up as I indicated.
p.s. Happy mother’s day~
Top plugin. Works perfectly and within seconds.
Thank you very much to you and pericat, it all seem to be working nicely!
Simone
It would be great to get this working combined with Category Visibility-RH Rev (http://ryowebsite.com/?p=46)- but it does not play along with it. I want to hide some cats, show some - and give them an order. If I activate this - all cats disappear instead… What to do?
Hi
I get no list in my window “your current category order is:” and when I klik the “update category order” I get an error saying “Cannot load categoryOrder.php.”
Do you know why?
Does this plugin work with the “fold categorys list”?
your help is appriciated.
thx,
Does this work with WP 2.1? Does not appear to..
Awesome plugin. I am using version 2.1.2 and this works if you apply the fix mentioned above.
wp_list_cats(’hide_empty=0′);
If using widgets, enter this in widgets.php around line 861 or look for:
wp_list_cats(”sort_column=name&optioncount=$c&hierarchical=$h”);
under:
function widget_categories($args)
Hope this helps.
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