[plugin] [ORPHAN] rss_unlimited_categories - Unltd. Article Categories

mattgilbert · 2007-11-28 21:57:54

It baffles me too, but I’m satisfied with how it’s working for me.

I’m using version 4.0.4.

Logoleptic · 2007-11-30 01:32:50

mattgilbert wrote:

I’m using version 4.0.4.

That might have something to do with it, since the site I used it on was running 4.0.5. I’ll post something in the plugin developers forum and see if the version difference might be causing problems.

Thanks for the heads up!

Edit: One more question — what permalink mode are you using?

Last edited by Logoleptic (2007-11-30 01:47:18)

Logoleptic · 2007-12-03 12:46:00

I’ve updated the rss_unlimited_categories_list activeclass patch to fix the problem Matt spotted. Thanks again for the tip-off. :-)

Download it here.

jeremywood · 2007-12-17 10:02:50

I’m seeing an obnoxious problem with rss_unlimited_categories_article_list.

It occurs when I use it more than once. If I just put in once, it returns all of the items in that category. However, if I put it in the same page again, with a different category, I start to see only partial results. One rss_unlimited_categories_article_list might be complete, while another would be empty, or missing articles. Here’s an example:

<h2>Distribution Amplifiers</h2>
<txp:rss_unlimited_categories_article_list category=“distamp” section=“products” form=“products_list”/>
<h2>High Definition</h2>
<txp:rss_unlimited_categories_article_list category=“highdefinition” section=“products” form=“products_list”/>

If I put just the first, or just the second list on a page, it works, if put both, I’ll get partial results in one or the other. The likelihood of this happening seems to increase when I increase the number of <txp:rss_unlimited_categories_article_list />‘s.

Has anyone else seen this problem, and have they figured out how to fix it?!

Thank you,

Jeremy

Logoleptic · 2007-12-17 18:09:31

@jeremywood: When you say “page,” are you referring to a Textpattern page template or to a page on your website? I don’t think the tag is context-sensitive, but it might help troubleshooting to know where you’re using it.

For what it’s worth, I’ve used multiple rss_uc_article_list tags in a single Txp article without incident.

jeremywood · 2007-12-17 20:37:47

Logoleptic wrote:

@jeremywood: When you say “page,” are you referring to a Textpattern page template or to a page on your website? I don’t think the tag is context-sensitive, but it might help troubleshooting to know where you’re using it.

I’m using it a page template, as well an article, and I’m getting bad results either way.

rss_unlimited_categories_article_list section=“foobar” category=“foo”
-blah
-bskj
-pink

rss_unlimited_categories_article_list section=“foobar” category=“bar”
-blah

Where -bskj should have been in “bar”

I just tried starting over with a clean textpattern installation, and found the same problem.

Logoleptic · 2007-12-17 20:47:53

Hmm. The only difference between what you’re doing and what I’m doing is that I’m using the tag’s sortby and sortdir attributes. Also, the categories that I’m specifying are children of a top-level category. I’m not sure if either of those things would make a difference, and I don’t have time right now to poke around in the plugin’s code to see what might be going on.

Perhaps sometime this evening I can take a closer look. Meanwhile, can you check to see if sorting or using sub-categories makes any difference for you?

jeremywood · 2007-12-17 21:52:23

Logoleptic wrote:

Hmm. The only difference between what you’re doing and what I’m doing is that I’m using the tag’s sortby and sortdir attributes. Also, the categories that I’m specifying are children of a top-level category. I’m not sure if either of those things would make a difference, and I don’t have time right now to poke around in the plugin’s code to see what might be going on.
Perhaps sometime this evening I can take a closer look. Meanwhile, can you check to see if sorting or using sub-categories makes any difference for you?

The categories that I’m using are also sub-categories. I tried adding sort criteria and that didn’t make any difference. I appreciate your looking at this, I don’t know where to begin in chasing this down. I can see how you might not notice this issue if you were managing large numbers of articles, but I only have a handful, and it’s super obvious.

Last edited by jeremywood (2007-12-17 22:56:31)

Logoleptic · 2007-12-18 08:38:49

Jeremy, am I correct in interpreting your example to mean that -bskj not only should have been in the “bar” category but that it also did not belong in “foo”? Or is it a member of both categories? Are all the categories you’re using children, with none of them being parents of the others?

the_ghost · 2007-12-18 13:57:31

Is there way to sort admin-side list of categories by category’s title, not by name? ANd the same question is for outputting related_articles?

jeremywood · 2007-12-18 19:01:37

Logoleptic wrote:

Jeremy, am I correct in interpreting your example to mean that -bskj not only should have been in the “bar” category but that it also did not belong in “foo”? Or is it a member of both categories? Are all the categories you’re using children, with none of them being parents of the others?

I should have been more explicit in my example, and show the desired output. Here is what I would like to see:

rss_unlimited_categories_article_list section=“foobar” category=“foo”
-blah
-bskj
-pink

rss_unlimited_categories_article_list section=“foobar” category=“bar”
-blah
-bskj

And here is what I’m actually seeing:

rss_unlimited_categories_article_list section=“foobar” category=“foo”
-blah
-bskj
-pink

rss_unlimited_categories_article_list section=“foobar” category=“bar”
-blah

I haven’t seen items showing up in lists they don’t belong in, only that they don’t show up in successive calls to rss_unlimited_categories_article_list. The first time I call it, I get the expected results.

jeremywood · 2007-12-19 01:14:24

I’m still struggling with crappy results with rss_unlimited_categories_article_list. I have put together a little demonstration of my issue. Here: www.endes.com/test/

The textpattern page template for that address is as follows:

list:<br>
<txp:rss_unlimited_categories_list section="products" parent="avenue" linktosection="products" />
dist amp<br>
<txp:rss_unlimited_categories_article_list category="distamp" section="products" form="products_list"/>
high def<br>
<txp:rss_unlimited_categories_article_list category="highdefinition" section="products" form="products_list"/>

You can see quite clearly from the counts in the txp:rss_unlimited_categories_list output the desired results, specifically the “Avenue 7100 HD…” should be in the second list, which instead only has 5 results, instead of 6.

Logoleptic · 2007-12-19 21:05:32

@jeremywood: Haven’t had a chance to look into this further yet, but hope to get to it sometime this evening.

ultramega · 2008-01-06 19:23:36

Sorry, if this have been asked multiple times. Thread is so long and I can’t find aswer with search to these:

1) when I have article classified to two (rss unlimited) cats, say cat1 and cat2, the plugin sees them (numbers are shown on count after category name). But clicking those cats in the category list returns just empty list.

In page I have:

<txp:article  allowoverride="1" form="default" limit="5" listform="mylistingform" searchall="0" sort="Category2 desc" status="4" />

and the category listing:

<txp:rss_uc_list showcount="1" wraptag="ul" break="li" linktosection="mysection" parent="myparent_cat" />

The very basic setup what I’m trying to achieve: I need year for every article (I have used basic category 2 for this – so I can sort articles by year) and I also need 1 or two 2 additional cats for defining the article’s content). I need category list for these content-cats only, not for the year. That’s why I have parented those content cats.

2) Is this compatible with MLP-language pack? It seems not to render translated category titles. Also It seems to take two versions of the article in the category’s count, the original and translation. Should be the translated only in current language. Of course I can’t see the actual lists as told in question 1, so can’t be sure of the final rendering in any lang ;)

Thanks if someone can show me the light.

Phlip · 2008-01-08 14:58:16

I have a sidebar showing a list of all articles in a category. When go a specific article, the permanent link works fine, but that article gets removed from the sidebar list. I’d like to keep it there. Someone mentioned this before, but is there a way to show this article in a list as when it is the current article? Thanks for any help.

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#511 2007-11-28 21:57:54

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