[Plugin: WP Realtime Sitemap] How to Show the Posts Under Each Category?

  • toddsmith

    (@toddsmith)


    12 years, 11 months ago

    First off… this is my first post ever on this forum, so I apologize if my post is not in the right place. I did not see any other way to contact the creator of this plugin (Rincewind).

    I would like to be able to show the posts under each category, but I don’t see any way to do that.

    For example… Let’s say I have the following 3 Categories:

    Movies
    Talk Shows
    Sitcoms

    And the following 6 Posts:

    Avatar
    Hangover 2
    Oprah
    Dr. Oz
    Two and a Half Men
    Modern Family

    I want my Site Map to display as follows:

    Movies (2)
    * Avatar
    * Hangover 2

    Talk Shows (2)
    * Oprah
    * Dr. Oz

    Sitcoms (2)
    * Two and a Half Men
    * Modern Family

    * Note the asterisk “*” represents some indentation. I didn’t know how to indent in my forum posting 😉

    Is this possible with the current settings, or would this require additional functionality?

    Is there another plugin that does this well? (I tried the “Simple Sitemap” plugin, but for some reason it limited my output to 10 posts, and I saw no way to configure the displayed post limit).

    Thanks in advance to “Rincewind” or anyone else willing and able to help 🙂

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  • Rincewind

    (@rincewind)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    If you have multiple posts for each of those categories, I would suggest that you change from using categories and change over to using custom post types and my plugin would show the sitemap exactly how you have just described above.

    If you go back to the my plugin on the wordpress site and click on screenshots the 2nd screenshot shows custom post types and how they appear, I have added only one but you can have as many as you want.

    There is 2 useful addons that will enable you to add custom post types into wordpress. The 2nd of the 2 I haven’t used before but looked good.
    custom post type ui
    Ultimate Post Type Manager

    here is some useful links for you to have a look at.
    custom post types in wordpress
    custom post types in wordpress 3.0

    As for contacting me there is a link on the my plugin saying “contact me” which you should have seen when you activated the plugin, and there is help link at the very top right on the plugin settings page click this and there is a contact me link there aswell.

    Thread Starter toddsmith

    (@toddsmith)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Rincewind:

    I really appreciate your reply. After reading your response, I was able to go back to the plugin settings page, click “Help” as you suggested, and yes, I do see the “Contact Me” link.

    Just as an FYI… while I was awaiting your response, I searched and stumbled upon another plugin that does what I wanted directly. That plugin is “Dagon Design Sitemap Generator”. This info may or may not be of interest to you, as a plugin architect.

    I have a lot of respect all of you plugin designers and coders who make your services available to the rest of us, thanks again 🙂

    Rincewind

    (@rincewind)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    I see ok I will have a look at that one and possibly see if can implement as an option to have posts listed under there category as an optional option.

    Gwyneth Llewelyn

    (@gwynethllewelyn)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    I thought that the “Dagon Design Sitemap Generator” only worked for pages… but apparently not! Hmm. I discarded Dagon Design’s and used WP Realtime Sitemap because Dagon Design never updated their plugin since 2008 or so, and missed WP 3.0 entirely, custom posts, and so forth. Nevertheless, it seems to have more features. I guess it’s worth a try, too…

    Rincewind

    (@rincewind)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Am glad you find my plugin useful, may take this opportunity to ask what more you feel you could possibly need/want from a plugin such as mine, does mine not do anything you wish it did ?

    Thread Starter toddsmith

    (@toddsmith)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Rincewind:

    I did find your plugin useful, as far as displaying basic the information for a sitemap. What your plugin does, I had already done something similar after being given some coding instruction and snippets from my webmaster guru. After seeing yours as an off-the-shelf solution to what I had already done, it was a toss up between using yours or mine. Having suffered through the pain of trying to figure it out on my own, I think ALL plugin designers should be commended, so I would never diminish what you have done in any way.

    However I wanted to go to the next level, which is to organize the sitemap info by categories.

    I think the sitemap should help the user navigate the site, as well as be as easy to implement for the webmaster.

    Without the ability to organize into categories, it’s kinda like having books randomly shelved by publication date in the library. If you were wanting to look at all the real estate books, for example, it would take you quite a while to find them 😉

    Also if I need to create my own custom data types, rather than using the category features that WP already has, that adds another level of effort for me as a webmaster.

    The next level, above what Dagon offers, would be even more flexibility with organizing (and formatting) the info. Dagon’s sitemap isn’t perfect from that standpoint (plus it includes an automatic Dagon link at the bottom :-), but it is definitely the easiest sitemap to implement (that I have found so far) that organizes posts into categories.

    solutionsearching

    (@solutionsearching)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    Rincewind, with all due respect for your efforts, I’m sorry, but I can’t follow your instructions to get the same exact simple sitemap setup as toddsmith wanted in the first place. I’m sure that your plugin can do it, but it’s far too complicated for beginners and mental midgets like me to figure out how wade through that php maze to get there to make it happen.
    Man, you would have a really great user-friendly sitemap plugin if it just had a simple one-click display option at the bottom (with all the others) that said “Display posts by category.” A further improvement on that would be a box form right beside it where one could select his own main title heading for that display. And one step beyond that, though not absolutely necessary, would be the capacity to change the main title heading font, size, and color. And I bet there’s lot of other beginners like me who would jump at it, and gladly send you a donation in gratitude for all the frustration and time you would save us! No offence meant, man. But rather, a plea for help!

    Rincewind

    (@rincewind)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Appologises this wasn’t implemented and as I was using a version where it was implemented on my site, I thought that I had released it, but I have since now released this version with some other changes so it will now do what you require.

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