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Hello,
I’m trying to fix up my wordpress using plugins.
I’ll try Top Cat first and let you know how it works.
Also I use seach engine tags for better PR
Thanks for the info
John M
You know what would be great, a readme showing how this plug-in works! Like how can I change the colors of titles using the tags. I mean comon even a simple example would help a ton, not user freindly at all.
Sorry about that. I should make it more clear that you need to be comfortable editing your WordPress theme and using HTML and CSS. If you can do these things, then it should be fairly obvious how to make Top Cat work. If not, then you will have to wait for a future version of Top Cat that automates such things. This future version is only in the planning stages so far.
I am comfortable editing wordpress, which has nothing to do with the awful documentation that goes with this plug in, why post it if you don’t want people to use it.
It’s certainly not the case that I don’t want people to use it! Clearly, Top Cst is not for you. Sorry about that — I’m sure there are many other plugins that you’ll be happier with. Good luck!
Hi Bennett,
I installed topcat in my website and everything seems to work but it doesn’t quite what iam afther but i think somewhere it should be possible
I want certain images next to my posts in wordpress. Therefore i use this code:.png” alt=”Category: ” />
But when i select more images at the same time, it always falls back to the maincategory. I thought with Top Cat the category id could be changed to the main one so that the script can load the best image.
Could you please help me out?
Say can you take some time or get your girl friend or family member to draw up a READ ME and also include some examples WITH full display. When you guys toss out these plug ins and only include a show of variables you leave many people grasping at air that don’t yet fully understand the css and php brackets and characters or where exactly they belong. I always work myself off from pre-made samples, thata way i didnt always have to needle the guy for help all the time on just minor stuff thats elementary to people like you.
Thanks
Joseph, sorry I have not had time to provide examples. I really need to think about a nice way of automating the plugin so you don’t have to edit CSS and theme files to make it useful. WordPress 2.0 has better integration between themes and plugins, so maybe I will be able to do something with that.
But just now I don’t have time to do anything on it at all. I don’t even have time to write this comment, so…
I’ve updated Top Cat based on the changes in my post on Setting the “name” attribute in Internet Explorer. It should now finally work correctly in Opera and all other modern browsers.
Can the top cat plugin also be used to force me to select the appropriate category before I publish my post? I understand the ‘uncategorized’ category is needed, but why not disable the publish button before one of the categories are selected. This prevents posts are not assigned to categories and forces me to think to select the category before hitting the publish button.
Frans, that’s a great idea for a new plugin! I’ll do it if I have a bit of time…
Bennett - If possible, I’d like to use Top Cat to specify the primary category for the permalink. Is this possible?
Mark, I don’t quite know what you mean. Top Cat assigns main categories to posts, whether viewed on the home page, an archive page, or on their own page via a permalink. Do you mean something else?
Frans, I am testing an update that automatically assigns the main category if you forget to click one. That’s a Top Cat specific version of your idea. I’ll update this page with the new code soon.
Hi !
Great plugin. I was looking for it for a long time !
It works fine exept that when it displays the main category, the name of that category is not linked any more. Before, there was a link on each category that let us click and see all the posts form that category. How could I fix it ?
Thx a lot for your help !
I just wanted to drop you some much needed praise *wink* Brilliant plugin it works perfectly, and is very very versitile I like that. Hopefully with all these requests for automation nothing will be lost. Keep up the good work Bennett and don’t let anyone take the fun out of it.
Hi Bennett,
Fantastic plugin! Thank you.
Just one thing: the plugin only worked for me when i fixed on line 56:
“$wpdb->get_row(…” to “$wpdb->get_var(…”, because it was returning a unusable Object. Don’t know if it’s particular to my instalation.
I’m using this plugin for a myriad of functions and already integrated it to the Pages Form, to TOPcategorize my pages.
Once again, thank you!
Thanks for that, Alfredo. It looks as if you’re right — I don’t use that function with a post ID on my site, so I never encountered the problem. You must be a power user :). I will verify the problem and release an update. I have a couple of other tweaks I want to include too…
Hi agin,
No one can help me about my link issue ?
thx
Sorry about that, Flo! I will think about adding convenience functions to Top Cat to do this automatically. For now, instead of using
which does not create a link, use this instead:
If you have any problems, email me a copy of your template file and I will try to make it work for you.
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