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Несколько слов о постоянных ссылках в WordPress : Статья : Уроки WordPress — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:16:00 +0000

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By: Fusiongt

Fusiongt — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:52:00 +0000

After using your plugin I’m noticing some bugs. It’s doing the opposite of what the original Word Press was doing. However, it’s actually very manageable this way! Here is how my site is setup and how your plugin is helping it.

My site has 3 main categories, let’s just say “A, B, C” and in them they have sub categories, “cat, dog, mouse”

The main categories have low # category id’s because I created them first. The way the original wordpress would work was that it simply would call on the lowest id #, as you very well know. But now with your plugin, it’s calling on the higher id # which works like this:

If category A’s ID is #10
and category dog’s ID is #22 (and dog is a sub category of A) here is how they show up.

In word press it showed up as http://www.test.com/A/title.html

With your plugin it shows up as http://www.test.com/A/dog/title.html

And that is exactly how I wanted it! This makes the categories very manageable because now I can simply add a new category and it’ll work right away.

With that said, I have not tested if it works without sub categories. I personally have a gaming site, so something like http://www.test.com/news/xbox/ is what I want. Either way, I think this plugin is a life saver

By: Dmytro Shteflyuk

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:32:00 +0000

Thank you, guys I have updated plugin to version 0.2.0, and you could get it here (yeah, I have changed its location, but old URL would work too). Later I will publish post about other plugins.

By: Caio Proiete

Caio Proiete — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:13:00 +0000

Hi Dmytro,

I’m one of the heavy users of your great plugin, and I’ve just found a bug on it, that occurs when someone posts a comment or a trackback on some post.

For some reason, the savePost function gets called on every new comment or trackback, and it ends up updating the post_meta table, and since there is no data to update, it updates to the first category of the post (thus loosing any child category you might have choosen to be the master).

I’ve solved it by just checking if we are on the “post” page, before attemp to save anything.

Here is the solution:

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/** Store category permalink in post meta */
function savePost($post_ID) {
/*
Modified by Caio Proiete on 2007-03-25.

Are we inside post.php or post-new.php?
*/
if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/post.php') || strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/post-new.php')) {
/*
Yes, we are... It's Safe to save/update post_meta table
*/
$category_permalink = $_POST['category_permalink'];

$post_category = wp_get_post_cats('', $post_ID);
if (isset($category_permalink)){
$found = false;
foreach ($post_category as $cid)
if ($cid == $category_permalink) {
$found = true;
break;
}
if (!$found)
$category_permalink = $post_category[0];

} else
$category_permalink = $post_category[0];

if (!update_post_meta($post_ID, '_category_permalink', $category_permalink))
add_post_meta($post_ID, '_category_permalink', $category_permalink, true);
}
}

By: Dmytro Shteflyuk

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:07:00 +0000

Tobias, sorry for inconvenience, I really forgot about Wordpress formatting … features. Currently I’ve adopted my code highlighting plugin to use it in comments. Check formatting tips above the textarea.

To insert code sample please use $your_code = "here";.

Thanks!

By: Tobias Schwarz

Tobias Schwarz — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:04:00 +0000

Hmm, my code is not appearing – any formatting help to post it?

By: Tobias Schwarz

Tobias Schwarz — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:03:00 +0000

Hi again, I’ve looked at your code and changed it by using this to select the first (in my case usually the only) category assigned to a post apart from the master-categories (here 1/16/32/33). There is a plugin that allows a main category that I am using. Having that and your category checkbox makes the admin panel unintelligible for the authors who aren’t admins. Too much stuff to do before posting a post. So I hope this simplifies it while still benefitting from your great idea and plugin -
…

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I’m sure this could be done far more elegantly by someone who’s more knowledgeable about php and WP, but it does the trick. Maybe someone else will benefit as well.

Thanks again!

By: Tobias Schwarz

Tobias Schwarz — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:21:00 +0000

Thanks for the plugin! I’m wondering, if, in the case of such master-categories, it wouldn’t be easier to simply define certain categories that are excluded from the permalinks instead of having to define that for all posts?

Thanks!

By: Caio Proiete

Caio Proiete — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:46:00 +0000

Great plugin! Works fine with WordPress 2.1 without changes.
Thanks for sharing!

Best wishes,
Caio Proiete

By: Dmytro Shteflyuk

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:16:00 +0000

Jayant, thanks for the patch. Will integrate it shortly. Plugin works with Wordpress 2.1 without any changes :-)