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Folding Category Plugin 0.4.3 Released

Sunday 30th December 2007  

After a few hiccups with 0.4, version 0.4.3 is released which fixed a lot of bugs people may have experienced.

The latest 0.4 version introduced a much faster XML recursion based algorithm, rather than four foreach loops, the code is now much faster to execute and does not iterate unless it needs to.

Unfortunately, there were a few problems with the initial 0.4 release, much of the base code had been changed and it reacted differently on every combination of server/php versions. There has been a report of incompatibility with PHP 4.2, however I am unable to verify this. If anybody is running the plugin on PHP less than 5.2 I would like to hear from you, or if its not working for you. There were also a number of minor bugs, all of which have been resolved in this version.

0.4 is also the first version added to WP-Extend, so you can download and receive notifications through wordpress.org.

You can download the latest version from the folding category list page, or from the Wordpress plugin site.

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This post is filed under Wordpress Plugins by Lonewolf at 3:01am

Wordpress Folding Category Plugin 0.3 Released

Wednesday 12th December 2007  

My Wordpress Folding Category Plug-in received a minor bug fix today when I transpired that the table prefix wasn’t coded properly in some installations. This has now been fixed along with a few other minor bugs including the use of the before_widget and after_widget variables.

Version 0.3 also adds a new feature where you can assign a page a category using a custom field, which will expand the navigation list to a given category.

Full update, features and download are available on the plug-in page: http://lonewolf-online.net/computers/web-development/wordpress-folding-category-widget/

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This post is filed under Wordpress Plugins by Lonewolf at 9:52pm

Folding Category Plugin 0.2 Released

Tuesday 20th November 2007  

I am pleased to announce the release of version 0.2 of the Folding Category List Widget for Wordpress 2.3+. This version fixes a few bugs and introduces new features:

• Full configuration via Widget Control Panel - no more editing the plugin source.
• Option to cache navigation structure to further reduce server load (experimental)
• Added unique ID for each category to enable CSS styling per id.

The plugin is available for download on the plugin homepage: Wordpress Folding Category Widget

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This post is filed under Wordpress Plugins by Lonewolf at 10:44pm

Folding Category List widget for Wordpress 2.3

Monday 5th November 2007  

As your blog gets more and more posts, inevitably you will create more categories to cope. Eventually your categories will take up more room on your screen, and scroll across many pages. I have a blog, which has around 300 categories, and with this number the standard Wordpress category list expands the page and pushes the content below navigation to three or four pages down.

In order to solve this problem, categories can be made ‘children’ of ‘parent’ categories, and a tree like structure is created similar to the folder view in Windows Explorer.

This plug-in provides a Folding Category Plugin widget for Wordpress version 2.3 and above. It is still in a relatively early phase of development, however it is being run on this website and my paranormal website (Your Paranormal).

Quick Features

• Only uses one SQL query so it does not put strain on server (except when post count is enabled)
• Priority based category selection where multiple categories are available (e.g. single post view)
• Wordpress 2.3 support

Please see the plugin homepage for further details and downloads: Wordpress Folding Category Widget

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This post is filed under Wordpress Plugins by Lonewolf at 10:27pm