Problem with categories menu in Minima Plus

  • nscott

    (@nscott)


    20 years, 11 months ago

    I don’t know if this is a common problem with a plug-in or just with my Minima Plus template, but if I click on my categories button once, the correct category page loads. But if click a second time, the page just sits there and doesn’t load again. If I clean the cache and try again, the same thing happens — both on IE and Firefox.

    My site is http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/

    I have the lastest version of WordPress and my plug-ins are

    Popularity Contest
    Google Sitemaps
    WYSI-Wordpress
    Permalinks redirect
    Paged Comment Editing
    Bunny’s Technorati Tags
    Spma Karma 2

    Has anyone else seen this problem or have a solution?

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  • Thread Starter nscott

    (@nscott)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    Just a bit more info if it helps:

    The categories work correctly when I am on the home page. The problem is when I move to a category page, for instance:

    http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/category/relationships/

    Then, nothing loads if I want to switch to a new category. If I go back to the homepage, things work again.

    Thanks.

    oriecat

    (@oriecat)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    That’s really weird. Does it still do that if you switch to another theme? (Provided another theme has the drop downs of course…) One thing I noticed is that the first time you go, it changes the url to the right thing. The next time it just adds /?cat=2&submit=GO to the end (depending upon what cat# you are trying to go to of course) so it is still actually trying to pull up the old category name. I noticed that the monthly archives don’t do that. Can you maybe check the code there and see if there is some difference that could be causing it?

    Michael Bishop

    (@miklb)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    Check Theron’s site for the theme, I remember something in the comments about a fix for the drop down cats in that theme.

    oriecat

    (@oriecat)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    What code shows in the sidebar? I just tried adding the following code to my site and it works fine.

    <li id="categories"><?php _e('Categories:'); ?>
    <ul><li>
    <form action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>" method="get">
    <?php dropdown_cats(); ?>
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="view" />
    </form>
    </li></ul>
    </li>

    Thread Starter nscott

    (@nscott)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks, I’ll go check it out…

    Thread Starter nscott

    (@nscott)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    It works now. Much appreciated. In case anyone else has the problem, the solution is the code above — or you can go to this site that gives specific instruction on how to fix the bug.

    http://www.sebastian-heid.de/artikel/2005/03/05/get-theme-minimaplus-work-properly/

    Michael Bishop

    (@miklb)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    If I’m not mistaken, the built in drop down cats has some shortcomings, especially regarding parent/child cats.
    http://www.typedby.com/archives/category/word-press/
    However this plugin does a great job of handling the issue.
    just a fyi.
    Glad you found the problem. Personally, when I first adopted that theme, I couldn’t figure out how to fix the problem, so I just did a way with it, seeing I don’t have many cats for that blog. (I’ve since moved on to attempting my own theme for that one…)

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