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rss_suparchive_bycat might do what you want… set the ‘showcatsonly’ attribute on; as you say, this plugin’s aim is to be section-sensitive

second feature request for cbeyls — if you’re on a category list, could a class (like ‘active-cat’) be added to the relevant category list item?

so it can be styled differently, as you’re on that page

dank u wel

yeah that’s what I’ve been finding when going down the category road for static site design — I go round in circles

Last edited by nardo (2005-10-11 01:42:47)

Nardo,

#1 I use a standard TXP function to generate the URL. This function is supposed to create clean URL’s. Actually in the current TXP version, if your URL contains a category, this only works with the default section, so all other sections have messy URL’s but it’s not my plugin’s fault. I hope it will be fixed soon. The plugin code will remain the same. I don’t want to hard-code a function that is already present in Textpattern just because it is buggy. But even if I hard-code a clean URL it won’t work without hacking Textpattern’s code (try to type the URL yourself in your browser bar and see the result).

#2 The active class feature was already requested by jstubbs. Just look at that post just above. I’ll add it in a few hours.

And finally, I started writing this plugin because I tried rss_suparchive_bycat and didn’t like it at all. It made my website twice slower and the code was huge.

Last edited by cbeyls (2005-10-12 21:03:20)

thanks cbeyls – good points all – and yep this a very mean and clean little plugin

re: working section/category URLs – I found it as easy as installing zem_rewrite (thanks btw to Andreas for the tip) – and will run with it on a static site using categories as subsections

so I guess my question is: how do you hack your plugin to remove those “/?c=” three little characters? : ) if I understand you, it means copying a txp function into the plugin first, then modifying that… ? would certainly throw some ca$h at you if you’d consider doing a parallel version of your plugin…

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feature request #311231:

a version which outputs a drop-down menu — like zem-popup-cat, which would satisfy my needs except it outputs the category name not category title

Last edited by nardo (2005-10-13 02:08:58)

Nardo,

Which URL form are you expecting actually? You mean a special URL form made possible by using another plugin which is zem_rewrite ? This means the plugin would require another one to work ?

As for the cash, thank you but I have little spare time and I want to preserve it by doing things I like to do ;) For example, my new website is barely opened and I still have tons of things to add to it. Furthermore, a TXP plugin is simple and not worth paying for it I think.

So, now I’m gonna add this “active category class” feature. For the clean URL’s thing, I repeat that it is Textpattern that generates the URL’s and is able to recognize them afterwards, so if you can find a clean URL syntax for categories and sections that is natively recognized by Textpattern, I’ll add it. If you need another plugin, I’ll not add it. Last possibility: hacking Textpattern code and keeping the plugin code unchanged while waiting for this feature to be implemented in the new versions of Textpattern.

Finaly, for the drop-down, why don’t you ask to zem the author of zem_popup_cat ? ;)

Last edited by cbeyls (2005-10-14 00:28:56)