mystifier

Thanks Codeeasily,

That has changed since my post; it used to be the same as the free skins with ambiguous SL, FS and PGC buttons.

Very nice plug-in, so few galleries seem to work without a hitch.

The original plug-in, which has served fantastically for years, was very simply:

<?php
function kinderlose_where($where) {
  if ( is_category() ) {
    global $wp_query;
    $where = preg_replace('/.term_id IN \(\'(.*)\'\)/', '.term_id IN (\'' . $wp_query->query_vars['cat'] . '\')', $where);
  }
  return $where;
}

add_filter('posts_where', 'kinderlose_where');
?>

Is there an obvious reason why this no longer works?

Nothing there that helps I’m afraid but I am grateful for your continued help.

Plug-ins that hide child category posts have always been extremely popular and high download. This is because on websites where there are three or four levels of sub-category, it can soon result in many tens of posts showing unnecessarily at higher (hierarchical) levels. Without a plug-in, or better still, core fix, large websites ARE completely unusable.

I have seven or so different wordpress sites and I can’t think of one example where this is sensible core behaviour and not having an option to hide them at least is very poor.

The two websites given as examples receive in the order of 10000 pageviews/month, suffice to say that since I upgraded, I have received twenty-odd emails ‘informing’ me that the site navigation has stopped working.

I can’t fix it and it is enough reason to wind back to an old version where plug-ins work again.

That’s exactly what I have but it doesn’t work.

EXAMPLE: http://www.burtongrammar.co.uk

Select: School Staff >> (Life & Times Menu)
The ONLY post in this category is http://www.burtongrammar.co.uk/?p=134
That is ALL that showed before the update; now I get pages and pages of mis-ordered posts from all lower sub-categories

Select: Bond Street (Theme)
This has the mod applied. I get nothing in top-level menus (categories)!!

I didn’t notice that things were so bad before I updated all websites, including the linked http://www.burton-on-trent.org.uk

My kids school website, which has four or five level deep sub-categories is a total mess with EVERY child-category showing at the top level.

WordPress might be okay for small blogs but suddenly, every website is completely unusable.

(Same applies to Admin, Filter Posts by Category is a total mess now again showing pages and pages of EVERY child-category).

When a category is selected, I only want posts to show for that category… not also posts for every single child (sub)category.

I have exhausted plug-ins so a hack would be greatly appreciated.