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I’m having the same problem. Any help?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How to add <span> into wp_list_categories() variable?Thanks, anthonybarro. I wish the team would make all of these WP template tag arguments so that they are the same across the board. For example, why this granularity is possible with the bookmarks tag, but not the links, or categories, I will never understand.
Forum: Alpha/Beta/RC
In reply to: 2.7 New admin interfacePersonally, I’m getting used to the new interface and can’t say that it’s particularly worse or better than the old.
Then why make the change?
With Happy Cogs interface redesign for 2.5, WP hit a design zenith for myself and my users. In my opinion it was a great refinement of the simple typographic ethos (this is ‘Word’Press after all). and really set a benchmark for Blog and CMS usability. Here we are barely 8 months later and it’s being ploughed under for a committee designed hotchpotch of desktop style interface elements which leave me – and are sure to leave all of my present clients, bewildered as to how to achieve simple tasks.
Right. Maybe the [2.5] design wasn’t complex, or overtly ostentatious and “sweet-looking” with lots of nifty graphic bloat. But it was simple, clean, and usable. It was a good kind of “reset” for WordPress, and though it took a little time to get used to, it really did function pretty smoothly. This new design [2.7] has made many changes for change’s sake, it seems. It also appears to be developed with one goal in mind: feature bloat. WP Admin now appears to be on track to mirror the MS Office package online, as far as features and bloat are concerned. More is not always more.
WP has plenty of features already, adding more just because they are neat or cool does nothing useful for the writer.
You’re right. More features actually cuts down your userbase more often than it extends it.
Take some clues from Apple’s UI Guidelines, and stop trying to reinvent the wheel.
And what’s worth noting is that design has very little to do with interface. They are related like an airplane is related to gasoline. They can work together, but in many cases, they can be completely incompatible. You get the most mileage from having both be on par with high quality.
There have been some comments that the previous UI made things difficult to find too, so that is no fault of 2.7. I’ll agree. That is because there are UI challenges that cannot be fixed with any amount of design changes alone. So Otto’s comments about how there were tons of complaints about 2.5 could very well have been people expressing their frustration with the UI, not merely the design. I expect this is true.
How can you get a committee designed interface to perform better than a UI expert’s implementation? I’ll argue that you can’t. Throwing away all of the prudent and forward thinking groundwork laid by Happy Cogs was the first moment of shovel striking dirt for WordPress. If things continue to get more complicated and bloated, WordPress will eventually fail. I do not say this at all in the hope that this comes to pass. I think WordPress is the best OS software around today, and it’s mainly due to the community (both of users and contributors). I personally hope a backend change DOES happen again soon, back to a simple, powerful, feature lean interface that keeps WordPress on track to be the best open source software on the market.
WordPress – You have a lot of clout and a lot of trust. Look to the experts in INTERFACE, feature, and graphic design, and let them lead you to a better, leaner, more universal system.
I’ll state it again for impact: More features means less satisfaction, not more. Each link on a webpage is a personal recommendation from the software creator. If the user is unfamiliar or uncomfortable clicking on any of those links, they are going to feel alienated, distracted and confused. The more you can give your user exactly what they want, and cut down the “hype” features that will be unimportant long term, the better chance you have at retention.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Category Pagination bizarreness?Ok, thank you, Otto and Moshu. I’m sorry for confusing that and taking us on this long roundabout journey, and thank you for taking the time to fill me in on how this should be done.
Now, I’ve removed the Page, and have gotten the page category-6.php to show up at (url)/featured-articles/. However, (and please don’t hate me), I still seem to have issues with this category page. First of all, the query only displays the article that is in category 6, though the query requests category 4,5, and 6.
Also, pagination still takes me to (url)/featured-articles/page/2, which brings back a 404 error.
My code has not changed from my above posts.
Thank you.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Category Pagination bizarreness?A Page template is not meant to show multiple posts.
Why? An archive file is listing multiple posts, is it not?
From the Page Template codex page:
archives.php – ignores Page content and instead displays a list of Archives by Month and Archives by Subject (by Category)
Is there somewhere that this is indicated that a page cannot be used for a category file? I’m clearly confused, but I don’t realize yet why…
Thank you for your patience and help in getting me set straight…
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Category Pagination bizarreness?P.S. “global $query_string;” didn’t seem to do anything, on either set of code…
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Category Pagination bizarreness?Otto,
I tried adding that line. Even when I remove EVERYTHING except the lines I’ve posted above, and the template comments, (no header, no footer, no sidebar, etc), I still get the same results as I’ve posted earlier, indicating to me it’s nothing in my code that’s conflicting, at least not on the page itself.
So, other details:
-Category “Featured Articles” set up in the categories section under “Manage”.
» Category Parent: none
– Category PAGE set up titled “Featured Articles”
» Page Parent: Main Page (no parent)
» Page Template: “Category 6 Page – Featured Articles” (shows up correctly)
– Corresponding PHP file name: category-6.phpIs something amiss here? Is this a WP bug? Are there any additional details I can share?
Thank you.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Category Pagination bizarreness?Thank you for your response. Unfortunately, there still seems to be a disconnect. Here’s what I have in my code (I have removed any additional info, such as xhtml styling, and postmeta stuff for simplicity):
<?php posts_nav_link(); ?> <?php query_posts($query_string.'&cat=6,5,4'); ?> <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <?php the_title(); ?> <?php echo the_excerpt_rss(); ?> <?php endwhile; ?> <?php posts_nav_link(); ?> <?php endif; ?>Nothing shows up. All I get is one line that gives the category title of that category page, which is “Featured Articles”. No posts, no titles, no pagination navigation, nothing.
Now, if I change the query_posts line to omit the $query_string variable, (as below), then I get the posts to show up as expected, but when I click on previous or next page, I get the exact same results as the first page. I never see the additional posts. Here’s the code that works (somewhat):
<?php posts_nav_link(); ?> <?php query_posts('cat=6,5,4'); ?> <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <?php the_title(); ?> <?php echo the_excerpt_rss(); ?> <?php endwhile; ?> <?php posts_nav_link(); ?> <?php endif; ?>I’ve removed anything else that could cause a conflict, and nothing makes a difference. Is there anything else I can look at?
Thank you.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: NextGen Gallery] Getting images from another serverCan you just display them using a simple img tag? I know you won’t be able to use the built in gallery, but would that work?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Category Pagination bizarreness?By the way, is the $query_string variable meant to be employed when the query string already has info that is pertinent to the results being displayed? What I mean is, my understanding was that having $query_string in the query_posts was in cases such as when someone performs a search and wants to use that search criteria in the query on this new page, for example. Am I mistaken?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Category Pagination bizarreness?Otto,
I’m sorry that you have mistaken me for an ignorant tard that can’t wipe my own nose. That is not the case. Please don’t assume that I am just leeching simply because I’m asking a simple question. I know this is a simple problem, and I’m quite familiar with wordpress. However, I have tried what you have posted, as well as many other combinations to this effect, and nothing has worked. I just posted your code above my loop, and this is one of the worst attempts, in that it doesn’t even return any data from the database. Now, maybe I’m missing some other OBVIOUS code that needs to be used in conjunction with this, or maybe there’s a bug somewhere. Either way, I’m asking a legitimate question, needing legitimate help, and I’m getting nothing but backlash in the responses.
Please tell me I’m missing something so obvious it’s silly, and tell me what that is. Otherwise, please give me some respect by not assuming that I’m just being lazy.
Thank you.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: NextGen Gallery] Getting images from another servermediatemple.net. They are the only host one should use. Not sure about the other idea you have.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How do u insert multiple images into a post?, On WordPress 2.5I’m wondering if this can become a plugin. I would really like to be able to manage a gallery under the premise that I have more than one image to insert into my posts at a time, and that I don’t want to use the built in gallery that only shows a limited, cropped thumbnail of the images. I would love to do this myself, but A) I’d hack it, B) I wouldn’t keep up with it, and C) I don’t really have time/skill to make it a really slick plugin.
Anyone out there looking to show their skills? Lester Chan?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Category Pagination bizarreness?I know this post might seem daft, but I cannot get the categories to paginate correctly while I am calling multiple categories. Can anyone share examples of how they have successfully achieved this? Again, my needs are these:
I need the code to:
A) Call specific categories (“cat=6,5,4”)
B) Paginate after a set number of posts (in this case 5)
C) Show proper links (that work) for next/previousHave you figured out how to do this on your category pages? Would you mind posting the lines of code as an example of how you’ve gotten it to work? I’m sure it’s quite simple, but I’ve tried many a combinations, and everything either dismisses the next/previous links (they don’t show up at all), or they only navigate to a new page with the same posts as page 1.
Any help is greatly appreciated…
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Category Pagination bizarreness?Ok, thank you. I’m trying to implement this right now, but can you elaborate on how I might
A) Call specific categories
B) Paginate
C) Use the links for next/previous pages?My efforts don’t seem to yield a properly paginated result. All that happens when I click on next or previous is that it navigates to “(url)/page/2”, “(url)/page/3”, etc, but it shows the same post on each page. (If I set “&posts_per_page=-1” it shows 3 distinct articles, one from each category, which is how many I have currently for testing).
Thanks!