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hello and thank you!

no, I haven’t configured any shipping in paypal profile.

anyway, my problem is not that it charges the shipping. in fact it doesn’t charge anything, as shipping is set to 0 in your plugin admin. so that’s fine for me.

but paypal sent an email an told me I have to set the products to be “services” instead of “physical products”, because otherwise they will treat the payment as needing shipping and they hold the payment waiting for a sort of shipping code.

which hidden field can I add in order to tell paypal that the product is a service and not a physical product?

thanks!

thanks for your reply and suggestion!

though, I am a developer and I can code, so I was thinking if there is a way for me to hack the cart html in order to pass that info to paypal.

is it done by an hidden field?

thanx for your help!

Hi Ishko,
thanks for your apologize, I appreciate your good intents and it’s enough for me. hopefully future positive ratings will balance this, 3 stars is not that negative, as you pointed out. ??

regarding the bug, it’s a bit odd because I’ve tested it also in a very stressed wp install with several plugins, and it was working fine.

it is pretty normal that just 1/100 person will leave a review, posite or negative. and in my case I’ve relased 3 versions so far, and I have more than 70 active plugins on 330 total downloads (which have to be divided among the 3 versions), so it seems that most of the people who downloaded it, are actually using it.

I would like to try to replicate your problem though, but I can’t figure out what might be causing the conflict.

do you have any plugin to manage categories or add functionalities to them?
if in the widget options, you select another taxonomy, like tags or other, will the terms selector still display only “any”?
and what about other selectors like the meta fields? was it empty as well?

thanks for your feedback!

Hello Ishko,

I am sorry to hearing about your problem, but this is not the correct way to report a bug.
you should have opened a topic in the support section here:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/wp-list-pages-by-custom-taxonomy

bugs can happen and many times are actually caused by conflicts with other plugins or with the theme that you have installed, so they are not completely my fault.
I am happy to help you to sort your problem, but I don’t think is very fair to give a mediocre rating to my plugin, before giving me the chance to understand what is causing the bug and eventually correct it (if it’s actually a shortcome of my plugin).

anyway,
which version of wordpress are you using?
do you use any plugin for post types and taxonomies?
do you have any caching plugin?
which template are you using?
can you provide a link to your site?

cheers

whoops!
sorry, my bad! it’s late and I am a bit tired.
you can’t place a span (or any other container) into a selector option tag.

so there is no way to target only a portion of the selector option. I am sorry but it’s not possible to style only the posts number. ??

where have you placed the second part? I mean the css part starting with .pbytax-posts-num
you have to place that part into the style.css file of your theme. is this the case?

Great!
I’m glad you’ve been able to do it.

to style only the number, you need first to wrap it into an html span, like this:

<span class="pbytax-posts-num"><?php echo count($posts); ?></span>

then in your child theme css, you can target that class, and set the text colour in this way:

.pbytax-posts-num {
   color:#000099;
}

that’s a normal dark blue, but if you want you can change the code. this site might be helpful (look at the top bar to manually pick a colour and see the code):
https://www.color-hex.com/

good luck with your site!

Hi Willem.

You don’t necessarily need a child theme, but it is always better because if you edit a file in the child theme, when you update the main theme, the files in the child theme will remain untouched. in the other hand, if you edit the main theme itself, when you update it, your edits will be missed.
so I think it’s the opposite of what you were saying. you make a child theme, and then you activate it. from that point the child is the current theme, but it will pick from the main theme all the files that have not a duplicate into the child theme. so if you place a copy of function.php into the child, from now on, that function.php is the current. so you can modify the function.php in the child theme, and don’t touch the main theme’s. when you update the main theme, the child’s files won’t be touched, so you won’t lose the edits that you have made to the functions.php in the child theme.

anyway, in this case, you don’t have to edit the functions.php file.
you have to add the css rules (I assume the ones to sort the dropdown colour), into the style.css file of your current theme.

if you go to Appearance->Editor, you can edit the style.css file of the current theme. if it’s a child theme, it will be better, but it’s ok anyway, as the themes are not updated very often (surely less often than a plugin).
if you prefer you could use jetpack, it’ll be pretty much the same. just don’t edit the plugin’s css file. ??

that’s for the style. the plugin pbytax.template.php file is a different story. you should connect to the actual files using a program like filezilla and ftp logins, and then make a copy of that file and place it within your theme folder (the child if you have one, otherwise in the main theme).
the plugin is made so that if you have that file in your theme, it will consider that one instead of the one in the plugin folder. in this way, when you update the plugin, you don’t have to put the edits again, because the files in your theme will be untouched.

in any case, if for you it’s too tricky to understand how to connect to the files using ftp logins, then you can edit the pbytax-template.php directly into the plugin folder, but then you have to take notes of your edits because they’ll be lost every time you update the plugin.

actually you can now change the “Browse” word from the widget options, so you don’t need to edit the pbytax-template file anymore.
but you might decide to do it, if you want to add the post numbers like you were asking.
I’ve just figured out that is very easy to do it.
just edit the pbytax-template file (better if you can edit the duplicated version placed in your theme, but if you can’t, just edit the one within the plugin folder), and search for this code:

<option value="#"><?php echo $dropdown_text; ?> </option>

and substitute it with this:

<option value="#"><?php echo $dropdown_text; ?> (<?php echo count($posts); ?>) </option>

this will add next to the “Browse” text, the number of posts into parenthesis.

cheers!

ah ok, please don’t touch those files!

you’re not supposed to edit the plugin files, you have to duplicate the pbytax-template.php file, and place the copy into your theme folder. and then edit that new file, and not the original one.
though you can’t duplicate a file within wp admin panel, you have to use ftp or a file-manager from your server cPanel.

in any case, the files “disappears” because that file is actually into a sub-folder. but the wp editor it display them all together when you first arrive there. then as soon as you click one of them, you enter into its subfolder and wp displays only the files of that subfolder (in that case, there is just the other css file in there).

anyway, the css edits are definitely not supposed to be placed into that file, because pbytax-admin-style.php is a file that is used to style the admin back-end options of the plugin. there is another file called pbytax-style.css which contains the styles for the actual widget in the front-end.

but in any case, you shouldn’t edit that file neither. just place your css rules within the style.css file that you can find editing your own theme, and not the plugin.

I hope it is clearer now. ??

anyway, I’ve decided that instead of making you wait for the next version for the “browse” option, I made a intermediate patch in which that option is already added, so you don’t need to edit the template file. you can download it from here:
patch 1.2.15

cheers!

sorry willem but I’m still not sure what are you talking about.. ??

what do you mean with “other files“?
where are you when they disappear? wordpress admin?
when you say “when I activate the css file instead of the template file” what do you mean? do you mean when you duplicate the file pbytax-template.php and copy it into your theme folder, so that you can change the “browse” text?
are you actually editing that file directly into the plugin folder?

as I said previously, I don’t want to add too many options for the dropdown, because the real plugin is about the normal list, and I don’t want to create a whole new bunch of options specific for the dropdown, because the widget options are already a lot, and I fear it will become too confusing.

Hello Willem,

I’m sorry but I’ve not understood what is the issue that you explain here:

When I change the text ‘Browse..’ I get the next problem when I select the wrong file: the other files disappear at the right side. I have to use the return function in the browser to see all the files again.

can you clarify what actually happens?

regarding the options, the problem is that I’m not sure I want to make the dropdown as a fully featured alternative, otherwise I will basically have 2 plugins (normal list and dropdown) with their own specific options, and this will lead to have too many options within the widget, and actually several of them won’t be used if you chose the drodown, and viceversa many other won’t be used if you chose the normal list.

anyway because it’s probably very easy that anyone who is not english will need to change the “browse” text, I will add the option to change that, in the next version.

cheers!

Hello Wayne,

just wanted to inform you that I’ve released the new version (1.2.1) in which there is a textarea field to eventually add arbitrary text or html that will be placed just above the list.
in this way you could add a different text above each of the widgets that you have placed.

after you update the plugin, remember to delete the template file that you have into your theme folder, so that the plugin will pick the new default one and print out the textarea field.

cheers!

hello Kurodan,

I’m pretty sure I’ve figured out what was causing that issue. there were a couple of shortened opening/closing php tags, and in some servers those are not recognized.

I’ve released a new version (1.2.1) which should work fine in your server too.
I’ll mark this as resolved. let me know if you still have problems.

cheers!

Hello,
I’m sorry to hear that you had this issue.

which theme are you using? which version of wordpress?

in any case, I am abroad at the moment and I can’t check/edit the files, but I’ll be back in a couple of days and look into this.

cheers!

Great!

In any case, I will release a new version in a couple of weeks and it’ll have a field for text/html, so eventually you could add a different text in each widget if you need to.
(just remember to delete your edited file after the update, so that the plugin will pick the new default template rather than yours)

p.s. if you like the plugin, please consider to vote and review it. it’ll be very appreciated. ??

cheers!