sCategory Permalink

What version of WordPress and scategory_permalink do you use? In this blog I’m using latest stable WordPress and plugin, and see no problems with pages.

HI,

I’m using WP 2.7.1

permalink is /%year%/%scategory%/%postname%/

I’m wondering if it could possibly be a plugin conflict? I’m using:

All in One SEO Pack 1.4.91
Another WordPress Classifieds Plugin 1.0.4.8
Audio player 2.0b6
Better Blogroll 2.9
Exclude Pages from Navigation 1.51
Exec-PHP 4.9
Google XML Sitemaps 3.1.2
Nofollow Links 1.0.3
Subscribe2 4.15
WP-EMail 2.40
WP-PostViews 1.40

thanks

Ok, I have dirty solution for you. Find the following link in scategory_permalink.php:

and replace it with:

Works perfectly. Thank you so much.

I have never had anyone respond so quickly to problems as you have – even to the point of doing some custom programming for me.

Inspires myself to do better. thank you.

Thank you for your report. This change will be integrated into the upcoming release, so update would not break anything.

I had same problem paul had when I installed scategory, I’m sad I didn’t have the same support that time :P

I wanted to use /%post_id%/%scategory%/%postname%/ as permalink, but it was breaking pages. Only solution I found was to use /%scategory%/%post_id%/%postname%/ instead.

I will give it a try with your fix, but now I started to feel that having post ID separating category to postname is the best structure after all :P

But I’d like to make a request. When we have a category nested inside another, both of them are used on permalink. I’d like to have only the nested one showing on some cases, but still both of them on other cases… Do you think this can be implemented? :p

Using my site http://Hikari.ws as example.

I have a lot of posts using the category http://hikari.ws/cats/entretenimento/vogonismo/, one of them is http://hikari.ws/entretenimento/vogonismo/291/o-pq-de-eu-naum-gostar-dos-vegetarianos/.

I’d like it to be http://hikari.ws/vogonismo/291/o-pq-de-eu-naum-gostar-dos-vegetarianos/. This URL works, but WordPress keeps generating the /entretenimento/vogonismo/ URL, and thanks to Permalink Redirect it goes back to /entretenimento/vogonismo/ as soon as /vogonismo/ URL is used.

But on the other hand, posts based on http://hikari.ws/cats/tutorial/en/ category must keep the /tutorial/en/ permalink, to indicate their language.

Since your plugin is able to tweak WP permalink core, I belive this can also be done, but I’m not good enough on PHP to implement it. In User Interface, it would be a matter of choosing to use whole category path or only the nested one.

I can beta test it with you if you want, I have 2 blogs (1 of them using scategory for a few months, the other will have it implemented next week!) and I can install as many development blogs as I want to make tests.

Another question, which plugin do you use for code formatting on comments?

I use WP-Syntax and it doesn’t work on comments…

I use my own plugin named CodeColorer for a while.

Is there a way to use the scategory to display in a template? I’d love to designate a “primary” category which I display in my template. Maybe you could add a function in future versions that allows this? Or is there one already that I missed?

Thanks, and great plugin!
RB

Hi,

I am using the following permalink structure

/%category%/%year%-%monthnum%-%day%-%postname%/

This plugin is not working for this permalink structure & I am using WordPress 2.7.1

Please suggest me the fix.

Thanks.

Freshers Jobs– If you’ll read the top of THIS PAGE… you’ll see it says you need to use %scategory%.

Please do a double check before posting in the future.

I just found out the permalink is stored in the meta field: _category_permalink which is relatively simplistic to draw out. Hooray!

looks like the plugin is breaking the pagination of the blog ( ie domain.com/page/2/ doesn’t work anymore). ie “more entries” link at the bottom

is there a fix for this?
thanks!

Weird, having trouble getting radio button box to appear. I’m using: /%category%/%postname%, changed the %category to %scategory, saved that.

I now get, in my post pages, the permalink name being:
http://dgeneratefilms.com//postname, and the only option being to edit the postname. Plugin is installed. On WP 2.7.1.

ARRGH!

Every time I publish a story, no matter what category I choose, the url permalink changes to uncategorized as soon as I publish it.

This is obviously a major problem even if I change it after the fact, as all my email notifications go out with the uncategorized category.

I have a feeling that this happens when the category that was first chosen for the permalink is changed (& saved of course) before it’s published. the plugin gets confused & it reverts back to uncategorized.

now my htaccess is full of 301 redirects that I have to set up because I have to change the permalink back to what it’s supposed to be right after it’s published.

is there a fix for this bug? it’s really causing some major problems.

thanks!

hi, my comment is still under moderation….

I’m having major problems with the plugin making everything in the uncategorized category as soon as i publish it…!

thanks

I can’t post articles to my blog until this is sorted out….

and I cannot disable the plugin, as all my categories will get messed up.

help !!!

Dmytro – Great plugin!

@Randall or Dmytro – I’m also trying to find a way to access the scategory variable in a theme/template. Is there a straight-forward PHP call to output it?

Alright, am going to be that guy that answers his own question. Sorry, should have just investigated it further before posting.

Here’s how to pull the selected category (scategory) ID and print it in a theme/template file:

This will get the information in an array:

And this will print it:

Thanks again for this awesome plugin Dmytro!

sub categories aren’t found since upgrading to this plugin:

http://www.lolsports.com/other/soccer/

is an unfound page. Any ideas?

It simply does’t change the category – everything is on place, the ratio etc., but if I want to choose a category for my permalink, I just can’t! I click save and than edit and than save again………….. nothing!
I’ve got this post: http://mysite.co.uk/somecategory1/post-bla-bla/, published in 2 different categories: somecategory1 and somecategory2. It is actually not possible to change the automatically chosen category1. I don’t know why WP prefers the category1 :(((

@paul It is not the scategory, if you are using the Top Level Categories – this is your problem! It doesn’t work for /%category%/%postname%/. The only one that does is WP No Category Base: http://wordpresssupplies.com/wordpress-plugins/no-category-base/ – it’s working even if you have sub-categories!!!

@ryan or anyone else with the custom field question… since its a custom field there are a bunch of ways to get at it. I use a plugin called “flutter” which adds tons of other CMS-like functions to get at custom data. You could also use c2c_custom_get() which I think is pretty rad too.

I don’t use subcategories at all. The plugin works, except the emails that get sent out are under uncategorized.

also, it USED to work perfectly until the update. I wouldn’t have used it if it didn’t work. Now it doesn’t function and it’s impossible to remove the plugin without wrecking my blog urls.

I’m not using /%category%/%postname%/

I’m using /%category%/%year%/%postname%/

Hi,

just wanted to let you know that I have modified your plugin to display custom taxonomies instead of main categories. Have a look at my comment at this blog if you want.

http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/05/06/custom-taxonomies-in-wordpress-28#comment-139964

Is there a fix for this plugin and the “uncategorized” problem yet?
My 2000+ subscribers are getting the wrong URLs still.

thanks

Paul,

If you’ll read at the top of this page, it’s actually your fault why it’s not working properly.

“Go to the Options/Permalinks page in Site Admin and use %scategory% option in Custom text field (you can look here for other options). In this blog I’m using /%scategory%/%postname%/.”

It should be /%scategory%/ not /%category%/ like you listed in a previous comment.

No, that was a typo in response to the fact that you told me I was using:
/%category%/%postname%/

I’m actually using:
/%year%/%scategory%/%postname%/

paul: Looks like your problem has been fixed in 0.4.0

Problem… I think thanks to the new comments structure, scategory permalink breaks my site and I get 404 errors when someone posts a comment.

Could you post a link to your site so I will be able to track where is the problem? I want to know the permalink structure and check if paged comments are enabled. The problem should not be so hard to fix.

Thank you!

http://techvi.com/ is the site with the errors.

Leave a comment, it’ll break.

Thx,
RB

I see you’re using scategory_permalink version 0.3.0, but this error has been fixed in 0.4.0 days ago. Could you upgrade it and click “save” on Permalinks options page to re-generate permalinks structure?

Thanks!

D’oh. Thanks!

Silly lack of checking upgrades.

No prob. It was very strange error :-)

I will gladly pay for someone to fix the problem with this plugin. my blog has 2000 subscribers who do not get the right url in their notifications anymore, and it is a major problem.

I cannot seem to get a response from the author, other than a kurt “it’s your fault”, with incorrect assumptions.

Anyone out there who can help?

Please check the version 0.5.0

I just upgraded to 0.6.0 and it seems there is a conflict with WP 2.8.2. When I go to add/edit post, I get a blank page.

I’m using the WP MU version but I haven’t had any issues with previous versions of this plugin.

Sorry, it was misprint in source file. Pushed version 0.6.2, please upgrade.

Thanks for the fix.

i’m using wordpress 2.7.1. and scategory 0.6.2. everything was working perfectly with scategory 0.3.0., but once i updated to 0.6.2., the plugin stopped working, there is no ‘primary’ button appearing when i move the mouse over the category names. please advise.

and here is the list of all plugins i use:

Add Meta Tags 1.6
Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button .9.9.3.4
Akismet 2.2.6
Bad Behavior 2.0.28
Dagon Design Form Mailer 5.6
Digital Fingerprint Beta 0.2
External Links 3.0.4
Google XML Sitemaps 3.1.4
Role Manager 2.2.2
sCategory Permalink 0.3.0
SEO Friendly Images 2.4.2
SEO Slugs 1.0
Thumbnail For Excerpts 1.3
WordPress Database Backup 2.2.2
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin 3.0.8

Just a heads up… the “Primary” link doesn’t appear in Chromium for Mac… which is admittedly a beta, but yeah. Would love an option to re-enable radio buttons, but understand if that’s not exactly a high priority.

Hi Dmytro!
GREAT GREAT GREAT plugin!

but it doesn’t work in my blog :(
I use WP 2.7.1 and the last version of your plugin
I activated it and I changed the permalink with %scategory% then save but…nothing happens! I can’t see the radio button, the “primary” link, I don’t even have the 404 error when I access to my posts that still have the old permalinks!
How can I fix it?

Thank you so much, and sorry for my bad english

Same problem here with WP 2.7
I can’t see any ajay primary link appearing in the category widget. Also when I change category, it puts all the postings to my primary default category
Any idea how to fix?
Thanks

This plugin is not working for me for quite some time (sorry, but I didn’t kept track of both the plugin and WordPress version).

On the editor window I can see the “Primary” link and (still in the editor window) it seems to work, but if I use:

and then navigate my site, I get the 404 error on every post. Of course I tried to regenerate the permalinks.

Any idea.

This is a true gem of a plugin, just wanted to let you know that.

And also I noticed (on WP 2.9-rare) that the plugin doesn’t work for previewing posts, the category doesn’t use the scategory.

I love this plugin.

MANY MANY people are getting the below error

Same with me. How to solve this ?

regards,
ASHISH THAKKAR

After installing all my posts show 404. I regenerated the permalink structure several times. I want my permalinks to look like this:

I’ve read all the above comments and I saw that there might be a problem with having “.htm” at the end of my permalink structure.

I also have the WP No Category Base plugin installed.

I forgot to mention:
0.6.2 Scategory Plugin
2.8.4 WordPress Version