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Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

Spencer Lavery — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:45:17 -0000

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?

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

Miki — Wed, 16 May 2007 03:55:35 -0000

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

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

Miki — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:05:17 -0000

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!

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

Becca — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:02:45 -0000

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.

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

Himself.ru — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:36:28 -0000

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?

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

Jonathon — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:47:02 -0000

Thanks a lot for the plugin!

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

Noel — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:27:55 -0000

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

Noel

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

Noel — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:20:44 -0000

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

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

JÃ¡nos PÃ¡sztor — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:16:22 -0000

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

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

JÃ¡nos PÃ¡sztor — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:16:30 -0000

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.

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

billyboylindien — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:00:00 -0000

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

Youâ€™re the king, when you can fix that.

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

Great plugin also !

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

syam — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:32:22 -0000

Another problem: Subcategory.

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

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

Ziggy — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:06:52 -0000

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

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

Ziggy

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

Karen — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:58:54 -0000

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

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

Tobias — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:26:44 -0000

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!

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

Andreas — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:31:37 -0000

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?

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

Birgit — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:56:39 -0000

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

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

fortes — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:43:20 -0000

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.

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

bddoom — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:01:21 -0000

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

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

Steve — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:22:37 -0000

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%/ ?

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

Rod — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:07:26 -0000

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

Good luck ! :)

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

fortes — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:05:06 -0000

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

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

Rod — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:50:19 -0000

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)

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

fortes — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:21:47 -0000

<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.

Re: Top Level Categories Plugin 0.1

DNM — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:22:56 -0000

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.