Comments on: Category Posts Widget 1.2

By: James

James — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:35:56 +0000

Thanks for your comments. I will work on integrating all these features into the plugin when spring break comes around next week. Life has been a little busy this past couple weeks.

By: normalperson

normalperson — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:16:43 +0000

Dude James
I agree with Michael posted on February 6, 2008:
* no limit at the numbers of post to show => all
* sort the posts alph. (asc and desc)

If this could be in next version you’ll have a major slam banger plugin. I would even start using WordPress more.

Nice one with the First robotics project. Stick it out and you might run the first WordPress enabled robot. (Why not, imagine basic WP install with a directional plugin – friendly bots with google map api or something.)

By: the surgeon

the surgeon — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:48:58 +0000

how can i make the category name into a link so that users can click the title of the category and go to page of all the posts in that category?

By: the surg3on

the surg3on — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:23:28 +0000

Nevermind. I figured out how to do it.

I edited the plugin this section of code at the top:

echo $before_widget;
echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;
echo ”;
nk_cat_posts($catID, $num);
echo ”;
echo $after_widget;

AND CHANGED IT TO USED MY CSS STYLE BULLETS. THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AFTER I CHANGED IT.

echo $before_widget;
echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;
echo ”;
nk_cat_posts($catID, $num);
echo ”;
echo $after_widget;

THE BULLETS CLASS COMES FROM MY THEME, WHICH IS ALREADY DEFINED USING THE MIMBO THEME.

By: the surg3on

the surg3on — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:19:59 +0000

How do i get the categories to display posts in a bulleted or numbered list?

By: irwin

irwin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:54:37 +0000

Hi James. I am trying to use Category Posts 1.2. to display a concert gig schedule on my sidebar. The only problem is that the order of events seem to be opposite that of the actual gig calendar. Any thoughts or resorting the order?

Thanks in advance.
is

By: helen

helen — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:16:01 +0000

Love the widget works really well. The only thing I want to do with it is sort from oldest to newest so the oldest post appears at the top due to the nature of the way I am using this. Is this easy to do? Perhaps I should do it myself but I don’t know enough about PHP to mess.

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:39:20 +0000

Maybe an opportunity to have a drop down option from the category chosen? Otherwise I think this plug was very helpful indeed.

By: robby

robby — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:24:39 +0000

whoops, i guess you cant use those closing tags. didn’t know that. see i am new.

?php if (is_category(page1)) { ? ??????
?php } ?

?php if (is_category(page2)) { ? ??????
?php } ?

By: robby

robby — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:22:38 +0000

Cool plugin James,

Just had a quick question. Im trying to use php includes instead of the auto install of the widget sidebar. it’s just more flexible and not as limiting.

I would like to call different settings for the widget depending on the page its on, for example:

??????

BTW im new to php, but anyways is it possible to do some type of get command and then apply the different variables depending on the page with just php after it has been activated?