Categories option not working in WordPress plugin

[Anonymous]

I noticed when testing version 1.6.2 of the plugin that the ‘Categories’ option produced nothing, after inspecting the plugin file I noticed that the if statements were trying to match ‘Category’. A quick search and replace of ‘Categories’ for ‘Category’ seems to have fixed it right up and now it does exactly what I had hoped it would…

Thanks for the plugin, after this quick fix it is perfect for my needs ” title=”Smiley” />

[imported_Ryan]

Thank you very much! That is quite a major bug and I’ll try to get that sorted and a new version uploaded tonight.

Thanks for the bug report and even more for letting me know what the problem is. I’ll add a link for you on the credits page in the WordPress plugins repository.

I couldn’t figure out what your problem was for a start as heaps of people have been using the category dropdown on their site with no problems at all. But I see that the problem you have encountered is the simple list of categories (not all contained in the one dropdown).

EDIT: This bug has probably made it’s way through to the beta plugin too so I’ll see if I can sort a fix for that asap as well.

[Anonymous]

Glad I could help, and thank you for the link on the repository. I suppose I’m going to have to get myself in gear and get something up and running there now!!

I do have one more request, though it is nothing major, and most people wouldn’t use it. I was wondering if it would be possible to get a widget for this plugin? I am working on a theme for my site that has widgetized header and footer. I’ve written a widget for this into my functions.php, but it would be much better if one were in the plugin itself. Just a thought ” title=”Smiley” />

Thanks again for the great plugin!

[imported_Ryan]

Widgetised header and footer? Interesting concept. I’d considered adding something like that to my “Aqua Vacciniumâ€

[imported_Ryan]

If you want to hurry me up with the widgetising, then send me a link to a good tutorial on how to widgetise plugins as I don’t have the foggiest idea how at the moment.

[Anonymous]

Heh, it seems google is a little short on useful links for the whole wordpress widget thing. After a bit of digging around I found this link to the wordpress widget API at automattic.com. It has links to tutorials for themes and plugins in the first paragraph.

Honestly, I mostly just looked at other themes and plugins to see how they did it.

About those widgetized headers and footers, it is a bit odd, but it works great for things like quote of the day/random quotes, your menu plugin, things that can be long and flat. It’s not so good for things like calendars, or other stuff that works better in tall blocks. Though I suppose some of that depends on your css skills.

Anyway, good luck with all of this, I’m looking forward to seeing what happens with future versions of this plugin!

[imported_Ryan]

Thanks Krusty Ruffle ” title=”Smiley” />

I’m reading the link now. Although you are probably right, taking a look to see how other plugins works is probably the best option.

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