Doodlebee

Yes! That’s what I originally tried (it made the most sense) but it wasn’t working. here’s what I had before I tried the magled stuff above:

$query = array('orderby' => 'author',
			  'post_type' => 'author_posts',
			  'tax_query' => array('taxonomy' => 'author_category',
					    		  'terms' => 'campaigns',
					    		  'field' => 'slug'
					    		  )
			);

smart_archives('format=fancy', $query);

it seems it doesn’t mix well. if I leave off the “orderby” and “post _type”, and just stick with the tax_query, it returns regular posts (but why, I have no idea, since there are no regular posts using the custom taxonomy); but if I leave off the tax_query, it’ll return all the author_posts (custom post type) – which is what it should do – but I also need it to only return the custom post type that’s in that custom taxonomy.

nevermind – found it!

Okay, I got it sorted. I just removed the redirection module from the plugin and used a WordPress function:

function redirect_to_profile() {
	$who = strtolower(sanitize_user($_POST['log']));
	$redirect_to = get_option('home') . '/profile?' . $who;
	return $redirect_to;
}
add_filter('login_redirect', 'redirect_to_profile', 10, 2);

Hope that helps someone else!

Okay, I know it’s only been a few minutes, but I have an update: I tried it again. Funnily enough, it worked fine. BUT when I added another category, the child Pages went to 404’s again. The hoops I had to jump through are as follows:

1. When creating a new category, I’d have to deactivate the plugin. (upon doing this, all the child Pages would redirect to the home Page.)
2. Go to the parent FAQ page and remove the [qa] shortcodes, and save it. (after doing this, the child Pages with the [qa] shortcode in it would finally go to their own Pages, as they should)
3. Go back to the parent FAQ page, and re-enter the shortcode.
4. Re-activate the plugin.

As long as I did those steps after I created a new category, the plugin would work fine, and all the Pages would show as they should. Adding new FAQ questions doesn’t seem to have an effect on this – only adding new categories does.

So whatever bug this is, hope that helps somehow.

Okay, now I feel like an idiot. it happened again, and I finally figured out why.

The client I did this site for had a “test server” that I did all the code and such on, so they could check and make sure everything was going how it was supposed to be going before we made it live. When I made it live, I moved the site, and then went through (as I do) and made the necessary changes.

However the client – being as clients are sometimes – passed out the link to the *testbed site* to everyone, instead of the real *live* link. Why? I don’t know. People do weird things. i found this out last night when they were freaking out they *they* weren’t getting the notifications they were supposed to be getting, and everyone they sent to sign up didn’t sign up (but was telling them they did). They were all signing up on the wrong site.

So THAT is now straightened out, anyway. (and i’m so glad to know it’s not MY fault. LOL) So the only ones left are old, old clients that I don’t even speak to anymore, and they don’t even use the sites anymore, and I can’t get them to remove me from the sites, so I’ll just have to deal, I s’pose.

Thanks for the help! 🙂