Hey Seestheday!
I used it on my blog and in comparison to CGVG, it’s much easier and faster to use. I like that you don’t need to go and find the category ID or the category slug to generate the shortcut.
I was wondering if there was a way to change the font size of the text on the plugin? For some reason it shows up bigger than the rest of the text on my site, and I’m not a huge fan. Plus there’s an odd translucent strip that shows up at the bottom of each thumbnail, is there a way to get rid of that? Furthermore, could the white space underneath for the next be shorter? And/or could the hover text function be reintroduced?
Thanks for the feedback. I will definitely need to address that issue with the translucent strip. I know what is causing it, and will be able to put in the update soon.
Can you send a screenshot of the text being too large? I had a look at the recipe index on your blog and it all looked the same size to me. I had a quick peak using the web inspector and saw that the recipe index font was 14.4px, but the text on the rest of your blog is 14px. Is that the difference you are talking about? The size of the text is dynamically calculated based on the size of the images. I’m going to have to think for a while about how to address it and it will likely come out in a future version.
alimentageuse – I also noticed another issue. Your Sweet Sangria isn’t showing an image. Can you check to see if you have the featured image set?
Does this plugin have pagination for recipe categories that have over 100 posts?
Also I heard it’s based of the Category Grid View Gallery plugin which was removed due to a security vulnerability. Has the faulty code or whatever that caused it been fixed?
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/xss-security-vulnerability?replies=12
I’ll double check that security issue tonight. I was putting up a backsplash in our kitchen for mothers day all weekend :-).
I did have to make several changes before wordpress would accept the plugin though. I’m pretty sure that this security issue was one of them.
Regarding pagination: To simplify things for the recipe index plugin I removed several features to significantly simplify the implementation for bloggers. Pagination was one of them. I will consider adding it back in as an advanced option once I have the basics ironed out.
There was a minor security issue that could have been exploited if someone had read the source code. My filenames are different than Category Grid View as are my function names, so no scripts would have picked it up. It was in a file that is no longer needed so I simply removed the file. I also checked the rest of the files for other XSS vulnerabilities and didn’t find any.
I have also addressed the opaque bar issue identified by alimentageuse.
Please update to version 1.2 for the fix.
How do I change the pre-set categories to my own categories?
Thank you!
Kirsten
Hi Kremental! Thanks so much for creating this plugin – it’s great and super easy to install.
I have a question about the font and whether I can change it. Right now it seems like the recipe names are bolded and don’t fit in the thumbnail because of this (and the size I guess).
Do you think I can change those?
My blog: http://healthooray.com
Thank you again!
Hi Kirsten,
The plugin allows you to choose from the categories that you have already set up within WordPress. I believe the only default category is “uncategorized “. You will need to have organized all of your posts into categories already using the default WordPress functionality. I hope this helps.
Healthooray you should be able to override the plugin css style with your own by editing your themes css file. Have you tried this? Unfortunately there isn’t a way to set font size directly in the free version.
Thanks Kremental!
I have no clue how to do that in CSS, but I guess now I know what I’ll be doing during this weekend 🙂
Healthooray – The style is currently applied inline, so you’ll have to override it. The !important tag isn’t the best way to do css but it will work and won’t require you to modify the plugin.
Adding something like:
div.rititle p {
width: 100%;
font-size: 22px !important;
}
Should work.
Fantastic work getting this version up and running and sharing it with us. Appreciate that greatly. This one is very quick and easy to configure. Thanks for the CSS code in the post above. Mine just needed a tweek.
Can you tell me if simply removing the old Category Grid View Gallery Plugin is enough to remove any security issues?
Thanks for the work you do. I’ll keep an eye out for updates. I may implement this on my major photo gallery website (instead of nextgen gallery) in time to come.
All the best.
Hi Elizabeth,
Thanks for the compliments.
Deleting the category grid view plugin will remove the security issue it has. If you simply disable it I don’t think the issue goes away.
I recommend doing a backup of your WordPress site before deleting plugins.
Hello! I just installed and began using this plugin. I love the clean look of my recipe pages now and I appreciate how simple it was to organize everything. I’m wondering if there is a way to add a search feature above the top row of recipes? Also, it would be great to have the ability to order the recipes with the most current entries appearing first. Finally, I’d love to be able to create an overall index with a sample of recipes from each category (1 row’s worth) with a “see more” button that links to all of the posts under that category.
Thanks so much!
Amanda
