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Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

Started by Fortes · 10 months ago

Introduction
The plugin allows you to remove the prefix before the URL to your category page. For example, instead of fortes.com/category/work, I use fortes.com/work for the address my “work” category. WordPress doesn’t allow you to have a blank prefix for catego ... Continue reading »

37 comments

  • Rod

    2 years ago

    wordks perfectly ... BUT :)

    when you want to go in previous entries (inside a category .. example (I have desactivated the plugin : http://www.le-hiboo.com/categoy/cinema ... which becomes with your plugin http://www.le-hiboo.com/cinema/) /page/2/ ... = 404 error ... all cats have the same fate when the plugin is activated.
  • Phil

    2 years ago

    Excellent plugin! I've been trying various forms of hackery to get this to work for a while, but wasn't terribly thrilled with anything I'd come up with. I'm especially glad it works with the FuCoder Permalink Redirect plugin. Thanks!
  • Fortes

    2 years ago

    works fine on my blog and all the others I've tested. I must have missed something.

    Could you try this for me? On your options page, make sure the category base is empty (which will reset it to the default, "category/") -- are you still seeing the issue?

    Also -- do your feeds work when you have the plugin enabled (aka /category/feed) ?
  • DNM

    2 years ago

    Does not work for me. :(
    I tried it at three different blogs. One of them had no other plugins activated. If clicking at domain.tld/blog/name-of-category/ I get a 404 error.
  • amelia

    2 years ago

    It doesn't work for me. I get a 404 error. :(
  • amelia

    2 years ago

    I have deinstalled the plugin and now I get 404 errors while I try to access to my old categorys. It has broken my blog. How can I overcome this?
  • Joyce

    2 years ago

    I got a 404 error when viewing category pages until I went to my Permalink Options page, without clicking the Update button the problem was resolved. Strange, but it works now so thanks for this plugin!
  • Rod

    2 years ago

    @Fil : My Base category was indeed empty. I tried again, and obtained the same error : when I change page, 404 :)
  • Luke

    2 years ago

    Much thanks for this Filipe.

    Allows me to take another core edit off my list, and saved me from having to write my own. Works like a champ on my couple of setups, paged navigation and all.
  • Fortes

    2 years ago

    must go back and update the permalink structure with the plugin deactivated in order to reset your rewrite rules. Hopefully, I can make all this automatic in the next version.
  • DNM

    2 years ago

    Hmm, I already updated the permalink structure. And I still get a 404.
  • Fortes

    2 years ago

    <ul>
    <li>What version of WordPress are you running? </li>
    <li>What type of post permalinks are you using?</li>
    <li>What was your old category permalink?</li>
    </ul>
  • DNM

    2 years ago

    What version of WordPress are you running?
    2.1.1

    What type of post permalinks are you using?

    /%postname%/

    What was your old category permalink?

    http://domain.tld/blog/category/plugins/

    I hope that helps. If not, tell me and I will send you an email.
  • Fortes

    2 years ago

    <tt>/%postname%/</tt> as your permalink structure.

    The reason is that there's no good way for WordPress (or my plugin) to tell the difference between a post named "plugins" and the category named "plugins". In this case, WP tries the post first, and gives up when it doesn't find it. I don't know any way around this right now, but I'll think about it.
  • Rod

    2 years ago

    I drop it.

    1. Activate the plugin
    2. Options Permalinks Update
    3. Go on my site ...
    4. http://www.le-hiboo.com/cinema/ OK (instead of http://www.le-hiboo.com/category/cinema/)
    5. http://www.le-hiboo.com/cinema/page/2/ = 404

    It's the life. What a pity. (I use Wordpress 2.0.4)
  • Fortes

    2 years ago

    Rod -- Could you try one last thing? Switch your theme to one of the default ones. Do you still have the issue?
  • Rod

    2 years ago

    I have tested ...
    Hemingway theme, non customized same error
    I have updated to php5 + Wordpress 2.1.2 same error

    Good luck ! :)
  • Steve

    2 years ago

    This thing is *almost* perfect. I tried to use the commonly preferred /%category%/%postname%/ format and ran into the same page/2/ 404 problem. Using any other permalink format fixed it, even a custom one, such as /%category%/%year%/%postname%/

    If you can ever figure this one little gotcha out, it'll be a hall of fame plugin :) Did the blogs you tested use /%category%/%postname%/ ?
  • bddoom

    2 years ago

    what did you do my categories? its now working! when i deactivated, my category still doesnt appear. what must i do?
  • Fortes

    2 years ago

    bddoom -- Try updating your permalink structure (this causes WP to re-do all the rewrite rules).

    Steve -- Being in the hall of fame would be nice. I'll see if I can make that fix for the next version.
  • Birgit

    2 years ago

    Easy installation and works fine, thanks a lot! (I use it on www.isi-blog.de)
  • Andreas

    2 years ago

    It works fine for me, but it ruins the AJAX-Search that comes with the K2 theme (getk2.com), which I would really like to use. As soon as I have activated the plugin and updated the permalink structure, the K2 live search returns no results. Is there a workaround?
  • Tobias

    2 years ago

    Hi, I tried your plugin, but it doesn't work. Using 2.12, and this permalink "extension" plugin.

    http://kpumuk.info/projects/wordpress/wordpress...

    Any idea what might cause this?

    Thanks!
  • Karen

    2 years ago

    I'm on K2 v.95 (getk2.com). When I've got this plugin activated, the advanced navigation (ajax older/newer nav) has issues.

    When using the advanced navigation on a category archive, it works fine. However, if you use the advanced navigation on the normal "blog" page, hitting older brings up a "not found" 404 page.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks,
    Karen
  • Ziggy

    2 years ago

    Same Problem as Rod and Steve.
    404 when using /%category%/%postname%/

    You're the king, when you can fix that.

    Ziggy
  • Syam Kumar R.

    2 years ago

    Another problem: Subcategory.

    Post under subcategory works, but subcategory page (example.com/cat/subcat/) gives a 404.
  • billyboylindien

    2 years ago

    Same Problem as Rod and Steve.
    404 when using /%category%/%postname%/

    You’re the king, when you can fix that.

    Same for me too.
    If you have an idea ... ;)

    Great plugin also !
  • János Pásztor

    2 years ago

    Same here, subcategories don't work. They's be essential for me... If you use the category base ./ hack, they don't either, so this seems to be a problem beyond simple fixing.
  • János Pásztor

    2 years ago

    Ok, I've done a little bit of debugging (~3 hrs) and found out, why these problems exist. Wordpress uses a number of regular expressions for URL parsing. In my case, I had a permalink structure of /%category/%postname%/. This resulted in Wordpress running into the post permalink structure first, category second. If it were the other way round, it wouldn't be any different. There is simply no way do decide if an URL belongs to a post or a category.

    Skipping the trailing slash didn't help either, because WP trims it off by default.

    The only workaround solution I found was to make my permalink structure /%categoryname/%postname%.html I do think, this is one retarded concept, but since nobody wrote something better... Use the workaround and be happy. :P
  • Noel

    2 years ago

    You'rr the king!

    using the custom category /%categoryname/%postname%.html
    works perfectly with categories, subcategories and single posts.
    Without the html on the end it doesn't work for subcategories

    Please put that in your documentation so that others know!

    thanks again

    Noel
  • Noel

    2 years ago

    oops
    structure should be:
    /%category%/%postname%.html

    Noel
  • Jonathon

    2 years ago

    Thanks a lot for the plugin!
  • Himself.ru

    2 years ago

    Thank you, the idea is great and simple, but unfortunately it doesn't work with subcategories, as it said before.
    Any ideas how to improve it?
  • Becca

    2 years ago

    Awesome, thanks for another fantastic plugin. :) I've got it set up on a friend's blog and it was just what we needed.

    It didn't work when I left the category base blank, so I changed it to /category and now it's working perfectly with categories and subcats on WP2.1.3.
  • Miki

    2 years ago

    Great work! It works very well with categories and subcategories but not with the "next" or "previuos" link (aka next_posts_link() and previous_posts_link()). The url generated is something like

    http://mezzomondo.nelblog.it/page/n

    but this always lands on the first page.

    The permalink structure is /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

    Thank you for your time, anyway!
  • Miki

    2 years ago

    Ok, I discovered that this is NOT a plugin issue. TY
  • Spencer Lavery

    2 years ago

    Hi there,

    Excellent plugin but I too have run into a few small problems, possibly because I'm using WP v2.2

    It all works fine except for pages, for example:

    http://phobea.com/news/ - works fine, but
    http://phobea.com/news/page/2/ - displays nothing

    Any ideas?

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