David Raynes: SubCategories 1.2

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Here is an example of its use:

Arguments:

<MT>

Version :

ChangeLog:

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June 21, 2004

SubCategories 1.2

Since the plugin contest deadline was extended, I thought I would spend some time making more improvements to SubCategories and this is what I came up with.

Download one of the following:

New in this version:

Category Label Delimeter: When you create a category, you can string together a hierarchy of categorys by putting all the category names in one category and seperating them with the configured delimeter (defaults to '::').
( Experimental ) Parent Category Archive Rebuilding: If turned on, when an entry is saved with a primary category set, the category archive for each ancestor of that primary category will be rebuilt.

More information and examples can be found in the SubCategories documentation

Update: Just to make sure I am explicitly clear, these are both MT 3 only features.

Another Update: Okay, a bit of a hiccup on my part. I managed to leave a bug in the Category Label Delimeter code when I moved from the testing version to using the config values (unfortunately, callbacks in MT do not generate immediately obvious errors; you have to go look in the activity log). It has been fixed and the version on the site has been updated. So, if you downloaded it before about 1100 (EDT) on Monday, get it again.

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Hello David, thanks for such a wonderful plugin! It looks like it will do exactly what I want and make the navigation on my site more streamlined!

I am having a slight problem getting it to properly locate the individual entries. The category navigation and category archive pages go exactly where they should, but it doesn't seem to recognize the template tag (in weblog config) for individual entries and does not place the entries in the appropriate spot.

I spelled out the full problem with code examples here in the forum, but so far have had no luck there and was hoping you could take a look at it. (I'd be happy to send you something off your amazon list!)

Thanks!

Posted by: Kat on January 14, 2005 02:33 PM

SubCategories

This plugin has been built into Movable Type as of version 3.1. To pull previous versions of subcategories into MT3.1, use David's Migration script. To define how your categories relate to each other, load up mt-sc.cgi in your web browser...

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June 21, 2004

SubCategories 1.2

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