roblgs

Hi estjohn,

Thanks for pointing this out.

It should be fixed now… ancestors array wasn’t being initialised in all cases. The link is the same as above, but the support page and zip archive are updated to beta 2.

If you have any further problem, please contact me directly using the email in the head of the plugin.

Cheers

Rob

Following yesterday’s build there were a couple of problems identified with regard to plugin functionality when run with permalinks enabled. These have been fixed and a general clean-up/reorganisation of the code completed, so that at long last the plug-in can be launched as a beta version.

The new version can be accessed (as usual) through the the Fold Category List support page.

One note, also on that page, is that for reliable folding to occur through your entire hierarchy is that ‘hide_empty’ should be disabled (it’s on by default), otherwise any categories that lie below an otherwise empty category will also be hidden in the category list, along with their empty parent.

The call in my test sidebar currently reads:

<?php wswwpx_fold_category_list(‘sort_column=name&hierarchical=1&hide_empty=0’); ?>

for anyone who may be interested.

Best regards

Rob

Hi,

I have posted an update to the plugin at the Fold Category List support page that should fix the broken functionality under WP1.5.2.

Both sort order and folding behaviours are working correctly for this plugin under the current release version of WP.

Please let me know if there are other issues that this fix does not address.

Best regards

Rob

Hi,

I have posted a new update to the Fold Category List plugin that resolves various issues of non-functionality under WP1.5.2.

The new version is, as ever, available from the Fold Category List support page.

Best regards

Rob

Hi Tomkun,

I’m not familiar with polyglot at all. How exactly does it break? Can you provide further information… better still through direct email to the address in the header to the plugin, to guarantee that I see it as quickly as possible…

Cheers

Rob

Hi,
Thanks for the feedback and apologies for the delay in responding.

Fold Page List was an easier adaptation than folding categories and the fold category list plugin remains in its original alpha state as I have been rather pressed for time to work on it.

I’m grateful for the feedback to this forum, but wish I had seen it earlier. There is contact information in the header to the plugin and quicker replies will come from direct contact as I’m not always watching this forum.

I’m hoping to find some time though to work on changes over the next couple of weeks, and to at least raise the plugin to beta status within that period.

Thanks for the interest, and the feedback

Best regards

Rob

Hi,

Glad you identified the problem… happier that the plugin wasn’t the culprit ??

For references where the plugin is in use:

https://www.bangkoksevens.com

and

https://www.webspaceworks.com

There seem to be a good few others out there as well. These are just ones I can directly vouch for.

I know the second of these doesn’t exactly “look” like a wordpress website, but it is fully implemented through WP1.5… with modifications…

Best regards

Rob

Hi Michael,

What you suggest in your final paragraph is the way to do it… passing current page id as child_of will do just what you are seeking to do.

I’m curious as to how you are trying to do this, because it should work.

Regards

Rob

H,

Hi, I’m the author and did get your email, but the reply I sent bounced and I’ve only just now found this thread… so this is probably way too late now.

The plugin is still in early stage of development, but I did have the basics of folding working… it was the refinements that were lacking… Here below is the main body of my reply (dated 27 June):

… I’m a little puzzled as I made as few changes to the
underlying code as was necessary to get the collapsing to
work. That said however, this was rather more quickly put
together than the folding page list plugin and is
incomplete, hence the ‘alpha’ status.

Could you provide me with a link where O can see the result
of your use of the plugin… or send me a dump of the html
code of the page that is generated… I’m unfamiliar with
the two themes you have used, but suspect that there is
something missing in the stylesheet that is causing this
problem.

A link would be the easiest from which to diagnose a
problem, as I can then see the css as well….

Rgds

Hi Hamish,

I’m doing exactly the same thing for a rework of my webspaceWorks.com site, built entirely off wordpress 1.5+… unfortunately the reviesed version isn’t available for view yet as I’m too busy with paying work at the moment.

What you will need to do is to trap the id of the current page in a variable, and then feed this into a second call (located in your sidebar) of ‘fold_page_list’ under the ‘child_of’ argument, so that it will only show the children of the currently loaded page.

This far I have working, but things get awkward if trying to do this with categories on a page, since the category list doesn’t include the page_id in its query_string… methinks further modifications of more fundamental nature are required!!

Let me know if that helps any.

Rgds…

With regard to the exclusion of pages, this should work the same as in wp_list_pages, from which this plugin is derived…

As for categories, I have a preliminary plugin available from Webspace Works WP plugins: Fold Category List. There is still a way to go with regard to full functionality, but the fundamentals (folding the category list) are working OK.

Enjoy!!

Foldable cats is something I’d thought about, but not had time to do… foldable pages was a higher priority as I needed it for a site I was doing. Should be too much of a problem extending this to Cats as well, so watch this space…

If I understand you correctly, try specifying ‘child_of=xx’ in the argument list, where ‘xx’ is the id of the parent whose descendents you wish to show.

If that is not what you mean then an example page with a link and further explanation would be helpful.

Fold Page List is built off a modifed version of wp_list_pages in order that it preserves compatibility with that function.

While there are no guarantees in this world, other than death and taxes, it should continue to work as long that basic functionality is supported in the core of WP.

The current version of the plugin uses the 1.5 version of code for wp_list_pages. While the plugin works in 1.5 & 1.5.1, it is a little behind the current version of the code from which it is derived. I will be upgrading it if the newer (1.5.1) wp_list_pages is compatible with 1.5.

I don’t foresee a problem (famous last words) with minor upgrades, but recognise that there may be a risk with major upgrades, e.g. in a jump to WP2.0, say… but by then maybe the functionality will be built in anyway and the plugin not needed any longer :O)

For now though it fulfils my needs, and hopefully those of some others too.

Bugfix:
Thanks to Laurent for reporting a problem with duplicating sub-pages in the output when non-zero ‘child_of’ argument is supplied.

A new version Fold Page List 1.0b5 [rc2] that fixes this problem, is now available for download.