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#337 2006-12-27 18:38:40
Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] rss_unlimited_categories - Unltd. Article Categories
While building the Popular Wedding Favors site I was able to add a ton of new functionality to the plugin and work in some fixes as well. Some of the fixes are based on posts and requests in this thread and some were based on my own requirements. I’m not sure that I was able to fix everything that’s been reported because the thread is quite long.
The changes to the plugin are as follows. Please note, this might not be a complete list. There were so many changes I might have lost track of a few, but the plugin documentation should be up-to-date. Check the plugin help file for details.
rss_unlimited_categories 0.7
admin interface
- fix category multi select list indenting
- add preferences tab for the plugin under the extensions tab
- redesign plugin help for readability
rss_unlimited_categories_article_list
- fix no article tag warning in debug mode
- add usechildren attribute
- add filtering
rss_unlimited_categories_list
- fix limit and offset attributes
- add showallcount and allcountlabel attributes
- add usemessy attribute
rss_unlimited_categories_filedunder
- add parent attribute
- rss_unlimited_category_count
- rss_if_article_unlimited_category
As always, please report problems with the latest version here.
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#338 2006-12-27 20:26:40
- erikdungan
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- Registered: 2006-12-14
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Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] rss_unlimited_categories - Unltd. Article Categories
Just installed version 0.7. This is the first version I’ve used and I think its great.
I’ve been able to output my tag cloud and, after some tinkering, got the rss_unlimited_categories_article_list tag working.
One possible bug I’ve discovered with rss_unlimited_categories_article_list: it doesn’t seem to accept the * wildcard for sections. When using it, I got no articles output. When I specified a section, they appeared.
Here is my site: http://s7376.gridserver.com/ (tags are on the left column)
Erik
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#339 2006-12-28 09:03:09
Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] rss_unlimited_categories - Unltd. Article Categories
Site slow down…
I’ve been using this plugin for a long time very successfully. But recently, and with no significant changes I’m aware of, the plugin is slowing the site loading badly.
The site is here
I’ve upgraded today to 0.7 with no change.
Disabling the plugin fixes the slow load problem.
I’d be grateful for any pointers for debugging this. Happy to provide whatever information necessary to assist.
Thanks!
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#340 2006-12-28 13:40:24
Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] rss_unlimited_categories - Unltd. Article Categories
Can you set the production status to debugging and provide the tag trace from the bottom of the page source?
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#341 2006-12-28 19:56:25
Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] rss_unlimited_categories - Unltd. Article Categories
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#342 2006-12-28 20:34:49
Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] rss_unlimited_categories - Unltd. Article Categories
Wow, some (but not all) of those queries are running fantastically slow. Can you try repairing the textpattern and textpattern_category database tables in mysql and tell me how many rows you have in each? The query is using all indexed fields so it should be pretty fast.
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#343 2006-12-28 20:42:10
Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] rss_unlimited_categories - Unltd. Article Categories
Just repaired both of those tables (had actually done that previously, but had forgotten to mention it).
Rows:
textpattern = 362
textpattern_category = 718 (seems big, but I have no idea what it should be!) :)
Thanks Rob.
Last edited by NeilA (2006-12-29 08:39:56)
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#344 2006-12-30 17:01:16
Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] rss_unlimited_categories - Unltd. Article Categories
It looks like the slowness is in the queries being run but I haven’t gotten it fixed yet. You might want to go back to 0.6 for now if you haven’t already.
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#345 2006-12-30 17:03:45
Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] rss_unlimited_categories - Unltd. Article Categories
rockbeatspaper wrote:
I can assign multiple categories fine, but I can only remove all but one category from the article after assigning them. For some reason, it will not let me remove that last category, whatever it ends up being.
Is it the browser or the plugin that won’t let you remove the last category? Are you de-selecting all of the categories on the screen but the plugin still leaves one there?
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#346 2006-12-30 17:12:11
Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] rss_unlimited_categories - Unltd. Article Categories
Sak wrote:
When I use<txp:rss_unlimited_categories_filedunder usemessy="1" />the categories get listed nicely, and the URLs are messy, but not messy in a way that works for my setup. i.e. they look like:http://sak.102010.org/article/?c=foss
And generate a 404 error. I’ve tried modifying the tag to include linktosection=“whatever” but no matter what I put in between the quotes, (even if it’s a valid section name) it’s wrong because there’s no /section/ in any of the URLs generated by my Textpattern install. Unless I’m missing something that is.
That is definitely a bug in the plugin. I will look at a fix in the next version.
Which brings me to Problem number Two: I’m trying to understand where it’s appropriate to use
rss_unlimited_categories_article_list, but I’m a little confused. I don’t appear to be using any of the default Textpattern tags that this tag replaces, at least not that I’m aware of.
The <txp:rss_unlimited_categories_article_list /> tag replaces the <txp:article /> and <txp:article_custom /> tags. You are using the standard article tag in the page code you posted. Just replace that with the plugin tag for automatic filtering by category.
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#347 2006-12-30 20:34:06
Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] rss_unlimited_categories - Unltd. Article Categories
Thanks for the update Rob…
V0.6 had the same issue – which was puzzling, because it had been working fine for a while before suddenly exhibiting this problem…
For the moment, I’ve disabled the plugin…
Cheers
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#348 2006-12-31 05:23:44
Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] rss_unlimited_categories - Unltd. Article Categories
Do you know the last version you used that didn’t have the problem?
The slow queries from your tag trace have been in the code since version 0.1 so I’m not sure why something would have just slowed down.
Last edited by wilshire (2006-12-31 05:26:09)
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