[Plugin: My Category Order] Not working with 2.8

Do the categories show up and get saved in the order you specify?

shidouhikari,

Weird thing is I haven’t had any problems and others seem to be okay. Little perplexed about the problems people are having.

It’s just a bit weird that the “my category order” page is located under “posts”, I was looking for it under “tools”. I can see how both places make sense though.

Just visiting that page to update the taxonomy.php did the trick I think, although I also changed around the ‘includes” category.

froman118,
on admin page categories are showing in the order I specify and I believe are getting saved, however noticed after I got did the taxonomy.php patching “no categories” message got replaced with the first category in the list, but it still shows only one (I’ve didn’t notice that before as I deactivated the plugin after I’ve failed to get it back working).

I’ve also tried to delete the the plugin from FTP and install it again…no luck…

Maybe I am making steps in wrong order or something?

Homika,

Are you using widgets? Do you have a category ID in the include option?

I am using widget.
Got it working now, for some reason “Include:” was specified to only one category ID. I must have messed it up during those turning on/off.

Thanks.

After some tweaks it worked for me. Does this plugin change the lineup in the sidebar widget only? I have categories in the header that line up alphabetically still. If this plugin can not change it, is there one that can?

The plugin only supports one widget right now (top of my todo list), but if your header categories aren’t in a widget then you can order those with a theme modification. Something like this:

wp_list_categories('orderby=order&title_li=');

I just haven’t had time to rewrite all of the widget code and still maintain support for older versions of WP.

Just upgraded to 2.8.3 and orderby=order dispays “No Categories” on the front end….so that doesn’t seem to work anymore.

Using the widget and including all the categories I needed did produce the correct order though.

Just a note that orderby=order and 2.8.3 are working for me –

o Deactivate plugin
o Auto upgrade to 2.8.3 (from 2.8.2)
o Delete all my_category_order files
o Install a freshly downloaded version of the plugin
o Activate
o Go to Posts > My Category Order and get message about updated taxonomy

All is well, even without widgets.