Comments on: Releasing the Collapsing Categories WordPress Plugin

By: robfelty

robfelty — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:46:37 +0000

Andy, Thanks for your diligent bug reports. I have fixed both of these issues in 0.5.6. Also, I created separate pages for all my plugins. I am closing comments on this post. All further comments should be posted on the collapsing categories page

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:01:27 +0000

I’ve taken a look to the counting of posts per category because your plugin shows different numbers than the wordpress-function list_category. Actually the way you combine the count of parent and child-categories is great. But when the count of the main cat is 0 you don’t consider the subcategories at all. Means a category with 0 posts in the maincategory but several posts in subcategories should be listed in your plugin but aren’t.

One other issue: when you expand “Ausgang” on my site, there should be a “+” before “Privat-Event” because it’s a sub-sub-category. You can click on the empty space in front of the entry and then the “+” or arrow shows up. But when you reload the page, the plus has disappeared again.. :(

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:25:56 +0000

Thanks for the cool updates.. If you advise to implement the css in the main stylesheet anyhow it may be better to not include the css and esp. the link to that file but just to supply the samples within an instructional txt-file – just an idea ;)

Thanks for the great work anyhow. Actually my +/- was just somehow a compromise. I guess I’ll make some nice graphics so that the menu points don’t jump around left and right anymore.. I’ll keep u informed. Thanks so far for your work!

By: robfelty

robfelty — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:54:49 +0000

Andy,

If I were you, I would put the CSS in your stylesheet for your theme. That way if/when you upgrade, your changes will remain intact. I only provided a stylesheet which I thought would be a good default for most people.

Thanks for pointing out the validation problem. I discovered that it was only a problem when not displaying posts. I have fixed this in 0.5.5

I also noticed you were using +- instead of arrows. I added this as option in 0.5.5

Rob

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 18 May 2008 15:14:20 +0000

I’ve tried to alter the css but well it only works when I put the definitions in the main stylesheet of the theme. No idea why, but no problem..

But there is a problem with subcategories: the code isn’t XML valid. Can you take a look at it? I’ve figured out that those without within are the prob so the fix is easy as you can see on my site. Anyhow, when you also check the source code you see that there are a lot of useless tags in it!

By: robfelty

robfelty — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:09:51 +0000

Andy,

Thanks for finding that bug. It is now fixed in 0.5.4.

As regards to the css, it might depend on how your sidebar is named. The current rules I have use #sidebar. I wasn’t sure whether I should include any CSS at all, for this very reason. You can try removing the #sidebar part, that is from:

#sidebar .collapsPost {font-size: .9em}

to:

.collapsPost {font-size: .9em}

I hope that helps. I would be happy to hear a better solution than this.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:01:32 +0000

Hi Robert!
It was the “wp_” prefix indeed that made the problem! You’ve hardcoded that prefix in CatList in line 134: $tables = $wpdb->query(“show tables like ‘wp_term_relationships'”);
After changing the wp_ with my prefix everything works perfectly. Yikes! So you have a reason to release a bugfix ;)

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| Onkel Andys Tagebuch — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:39:09 +0000

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By: GingerNuts

GingerNuts — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:46:52 +0000

will do rob, thanks for the hardwork, if its suitable for me ill happily donate.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 07 May 2008 01:16:51 +0000

Hi!
I’d love to use your plugins but I’m still facing some issues. I use a custom theme and it looks like the css for collapsing_archives just gets ignored. Esp. the font-size :(
The second problem ist much more severe: collapsing categories just doesn’t show anything.. I’m using the plugin “Top Level Categories” that kills the “category”-folder and puts all categories in the main directory.. do you think that’s the problem and could you fix it?

Here is the page: http://www.onkelandy.com/blog