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Zach,

On my wish list I think it would be nice to be able to have a creation date for each catalog entry. And to be able to sort by date and to maybe group them into different months. On my website with over 700 woodworking patterns, a new one is being created almost every day. It would be nice to be able to pick the most recent ones, say over the last 30 days and to display only those patterns on a specific page. Right now we do it manually by adding the most recent pattern to the page and removing the oldest one. But it’s a manual process and it would be nice to automate it.

And while I’m wishing….it would be nice to be able to search all pattern names for a particular word. e.g. out of 700 patterns there may be 30 or so that have the word ‘dog’ in the image description. Right now I have an “Animal” category but it contains all kinds of animal patterns. If I only want to see the dog patterns, it would be nice to be able to search using only the word ‘dog’.

I will understand if my requests might not be appropriate for a lot of folks.

Thanks
Frank

I found the problem and am now running on 1.1.9 just fine.

You actually gave me the answer in the previous reply and I didn’t check it out thoroughly enough:
“Can you verify for me that the category in your ShortCode is exactly the same (case sensitive) as the CataBlog category name you want.” When I had looked at one of my shortcodes, it happened to match correctly. However I didn’t check them all. And also everytime I went back to 1.1 everything worked OK. So I assumed that case sensitivity was not a problem. Appanently it is not case-sensitive in 1.1 but it is case-sensitive in 1.1.9.

I just finished updating my 40 shortcodes to match the category names EXACTLY. I had previously used capital letters at the beginning of each Category name. Now that the shortcodes match the category names…..I’m good to go.

Thanks for your time in helping me to figure out what I did wrong. Hopefully this will help others to avoid this mistake.

Frank

I deactivated Catablog 1.1
I uploaded 1.1.9
I activated 1.1.9

The filtering on my test site does NOT work.
The filtering on the Admin Catablog page DOES work.

I have a feeling I’m doing something wrong or missing a step but I can’t think of what it is?

Zach,

Thanks for fixing the slow image loading problem. I upgraded my test site to 1.1.8 and the image loading is OK with no problems.

I then went ahead and edited some of my entries by adding images to some of my previous entries. All the editing went OK, however when I went to my live test site, no entries showed up for any page that had [catablog category=’??????’]. The only page that showed my entries was the one that had [catablog]. It showed all of my 700+ entries OK.

So I switched back to 1.1 and everything was OK, including my recent image updates. Just to be sure I then reloaded 1.1.8 and the problem is still there. So I went back to 1.1 and everything works fine. I will leave 1.1 installed until you make a change or put out a stable version.

In spite of these few glitches, Catablog is a great product and it is the heart of my application.

Thanks,
Frank

Zach,
I’m using Catablog to create a site with over 700 Catalog items in about 47 categories. So far it’s working just great. Here’s a link to the site so you can see Catablog in action: http://stevedgo.ipower.com/cat/

I have one small issue with trying to Delete a Category. The entry is “Plaques-Signs-Sayings-Wordart” I believe the problem is with the exact length of this entry.
When I put the cursor over this entry, the DELETE option shows up on the line below the entry. When I move the cursor over the DELETE option, it chooses the line below the one I want to Delete. So I am unable to delete the one that I really want to delete.
I have been able to Delete catalog entries that are Shorter and Longer, but not this one.
I’m using IE 8 but have tried it also in Firefox with the same results.
I have upgraded to 1.1.7 and it’s still the same.

Thanks for looking into this and thanks for such a great product.
Frank