roblgs

Hi,

I’ve just uploaded the b3 version of the Content Extract plugin for WordPress. This is largely a functional enhancement with the following new abilities:

• Ability to retain formatting in extracts
• Ability to force an update if there already exists an excerpt within the database entry for a post
• Beefed up sentence counting, though this could still stand some improvement.

Full details are on the Content Extract support page.

Cheers

Rob

It all rather depends on how you structure your code and setup the css…

The most likely place will be in the header.php file of the active theme, however I have one site where the navigation is physically in the footer.php file, but then uses css to place it just below the masthead and above the content when viewed in a css-aware browser.

What you will have to do, assuming that you want the navigation to run horizontally, is to set the css styling such that list items in the navigation display inline, or are floated.

Hope that helps.

Hi,

You might also like to look at the Content Extract plugin for WordPress that was developed in WP2, but which should also work in 1.5+.

This will give a bit more control over how an extract gets output, and a coming upgrade makes some further improvements.

This plugin will work with explicit excerpts, the <!–more–> tag, or specific word or sentence counts for auto-generated “blah, blah, blah…”‘s, along with allowing the check length and cut length to be specified separately from each other.

Cheers

Rob

Hi,

I’ve just posted an update on the Fold Category List support page, bringing the version to 1.0b4.

This is a feature enhancement, allowing for controlled category truncation for use as link titles, whilst retaining access to the full category descriptions for use in content for pages.

There are three elements to this capability.

1. Embed the short description into the beginning of the description field and mark its end with a unique marker (e.g. ‘||’)
2. Pass that marker through to the wswwpx_fold_category_list template tag so that it can extract the short description
3. Provide an alternative template tag for display of full category descriptions, after first stripping any embedded short description.

The marker string (dividing the short description from the full description) can be anything you wish. Full details are on the support page (see above)

Best regards

Rob

Hi Brouhaha,

Sorry, didn’t see this thread earlier… For support questions of this (or amy) nature, there is an email in the head of the plugin that will, in almost all situations, get a faster response than posting here, where it may be days before I see it.

Anyway, there is a new version (1.0b3 – 5 January, 2006) available from the Fold Category List support page that fixes some issues with permalinks under WP2.0. Check your current version and if earlier than b3, be sure to update.

Best regards

Rob

Hi Nandamai,

Thanks for your comments and vote for new features… This is becoming a popular request, so I will look at creating the time to get it done… just not in the next week or three, I’m afraid.

Also… a big “Whoops!” on my part… The download link on the Fold Category List support page was, for some reason, still giving the old version (1.0b2 – November 8, 2005). This has now been updated to download the real current version, 1.0b3, dated 5 January, 2006.

This should resolve any permalink problems under WP2.0.

Apologies all round

Rob

Whoops!… The Fold Category List plugin on the support page (above) was, for some reason, still giving the old version (1.0b2 – November 8, 2005). This has now been updated to download the real current version, 1.0b3, dated 5 January, 2006.

This should resolve any permalink problems under WP2.0

Apologies all round

Rob

Hi diofref,

What version are you using? There was an update on 5th January to sort out a couple of gremlins and things which broke under WP2.0, among them permalinks.

As ever, the Fold Category List support page provides details and a link to the current version.

If you continue to have difficulties an email to the address in the header of the plugin is more likely to see a quick response.

Best regards

Rob

Glad you were able to get in…

Some further ideas have just been incorporated into a b2 version of the plugin…

The ability to specify check and cut lengths as numbers of sentences, rather than numbers of words. If you specify just numbers for these limits then they will be interpreted as words, howver, if you specify them as strings, with the format:

‘n:s’, that is, a number followed by ‘:s’

then it will be interpreted as ‘n sentences’, and the check/cut made accordingly.

The second addition involves a small interface change, with the fourth argument (still boolean), determining whether the auto-generated extract gets written out to the ‘post_excerpt’ field for the post in question. The default is ‘false’, but the intent is to allow for auto-excerpts and minimising processing for subsequent loads of a post through this plugin.

Full details have been posted to the Content Extract support page.

Comments welcome.

Best regards

Rob

Which link? The one in the message above certainly works (just tried it again), and the link to the downloadable on that page does also…

Gremlins??

Rob

I’d have to agree… in previous versions the search return results were actually useful, but the current system gives row upon row of meaningless

WordPress ” WordPress support

headings to each result in the list, instead of the subject under which those posts were made… If it’s not the above, then it’s the development blog that is the heading on each return result…

I’d really like to see the actual subject highlighted and be the link, not the place where it was posted… As it stands, even assuming that there are some results, then finding what you are seeking is far from convenient and often impossible in any practical sense.

Regards

Rob

Hi,

The Fold Page List plugin provides such functionality up through the page call hierarchy… using current_page_item for the current page, and current_page_ancestor on all ancestors (parental generations) up the hierarchy.

THis allows for complete styling all the way up the tree, but also allows the current page to be handled differently, if required.

The plugin works like wp_list_pages, and accepts all standard arguments of that plugin… think of it as wp_list_pages on steroids!!

The plugin is compatible with WP 2.0, though there is a conflict with the static home page plugin that both authors are aware of.

Hope this helps

Rob

Hi,

Since first encountering this in the WP2 admin (edit post) I’m also now seeing it in other sites that I’m pretty sure don’t run on WP…

What I have noticed is that by clicking in the affected dropdown, that I can make selections using the cursor keys to navigate the list. So, they’re not totally dead as I first thought, but they are damned annoying and inconvenient.

Glad to know that I’m not alone though!

Cheers

Rob

Hi, and thanks, bigtime…

Funny this is I’d tried something similar (or so I thought) earlier, but guess frustration levels were already running high by that time and patience running thin… didn’t persevere with it after drawing an initial blank.

Thanks again

Rob

Hi,

Search is broken again. The key to the problem seems to be here:

HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in /home/wporg/public_html/search/index.php on line 56

regards

Rob