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I’ll try this as soon as I can. Thanks very much again for your support.

Thank you! I’m trying to understand why the “exclude” function needs to be that long with all the validation and custom SQL query. Excuse me because I’m not a developer, but isn’t it possible to simply use ‘tax_query’ instead?

e.g. here:

https://www.webdevdoor.com/wordpress/get-posts-custom-taxonomies-terms/

Thanks.

OK, thank you very much for this example.

In a future update maybe? This plugin is extremely useful.

Cheers.

Thanks for the info. The download monitor is a nice plugin but not really suited to a collaborative environment imho. The problem with MediaWiki is that users have to be a bit web-savvy in order to use it, which is not the case with the people the site is intended for… I’m looking into stuff like Joomla to see if it can handle what I need, although it would be a pain to leave WordPress behind.

ditto here. plugin approval pending for more than a week. not the end of the world, i know, but surprising nonetheless.

thank you very much for the detailed reply. i’ve finished a first version of the plugin, a somewhat intense undertaking that i wouldn’t have gone through without your suggestions ??

i’ve submitted it to the wordpress plugin repository. if you have some time and feel like pointing out major errors and omissions, please check out https://www.talino.org/sls/

please note that i haven’t implemented file extension scanning yet.

thanks again.

thanks, it’s becoming a little clearer now. i think i’ll distribute it as a plugin because it might be useful to other people (it’s built to be as generic as possible).

a couple of more questions, though:

1. in a tutorial by devlounge, it says “To avoid naming collisions, it is imperative that all plugins incorporate a PHP class structure.” according to the wordpress documentation, this is a possibility, not a rule. i don’t know anything about class structure in php, and i’d rather not include code that i don’t fully understand in my plugin. is it ok if i choose a function name that seems unique enough?

2. the function scans a user-defined folder for files. for the time being it only uses readdir with a conditional statement which ignores specific files (such as ‘.’, ‘..’ etc.). are there some security issues that i should know about when using code like that in a plugin?

thanks a lot

ok thanks a lot, i figured that out at last…

bump

thanks a lot, it did. i didn’t know category templates existed. all the best ??