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stevelea on "[Request] Better Category Functionality"

stevelea — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:21:32 +0000

Thanks engtech. I did actually think of that but decided to add the parent categories to the first post containg the sub-categories instead. It does the same job. Wasn't aware there was a bug in the theme I use, but I'm happy with it anyway. Perhaps it'll get fixed one day. Thanks again. :-)

engtech on "[Request] Better Category Functionality"

engtech — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:55:26 +0000

stevelea:

I have some categories that are just parent categories, they have sub-categories that have posts but they won't show up in the widget because the parent category doesn't have any posts.

Create a dummy post that has all of your categories in it, that will fix hierarchy issues with the parent+children not showing up if the parent is empty.

Note that it is a bug with the specific theme you are using, not with categories in general. Switching themes to one that doesn't have the bug would fix it as well.

stevelea on "[Request] Better Category Functionality"

stevelea — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:17:24 +0000

I think it would be a good idea to be able to choose which categories get listed in the category widget. I have some categories that are just parent categories, they have sub-categories that have posts but they won't show up in the widget because the parent category doesn't have any posts.

Or maybe you could create a parent category that is solely a header and nothing more. That way, sub-categories could still be listed.

drmike on "[Request] Better Category Functionality"

drmike — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:05:55 +0000

Me, I've done it a couple of times when I was having issues with the MT importer. Takes a few hours for 600+ post blog. Lots of fun. :(

There are tools on the Admin side for MU but it's pretty much overriding settings of the enduser stuff, activating themes, and the like.

engtech on "[Request] Better Category Functionality"

engtech — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:47:00 +0000

Are there any API tools out there for doing admin type interactions with WordPressMU? I'm guessing API tools of that nature would have been pretty pointless for single-user WordPress, so they probably don't exist.

(And no, downloading the XML dump, slightly changing things, and importing it doesn't work. :) It may work if you wiped everything and then imported but who really wants to try?)

drmike on "[Request] Better Category Functionality"

drmike — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:47:15 +0000

Agreed but with how the database tables are set up, I don't know how that would occur. There's a seperate table for posts, another one for categories and a third for how they relate to one another. I can imagine the resources it would take on WP's end to do a search thru all three tables for each post.

I would suggest sending in a feedback on it from your Dashboard. Even the standard WP doesn't do this though.

Good luck,
-drmike

engtech on "[Request] Better Category Functionality"

engtech — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:25:56 +0000

Hi guys,

I love WP but it REALLY needs a feature for batch category editting. I would love to be able to look at a page of 100 posts, and then add/remove a category for all of them without having to edit each individual post (which can take be a major resource hog if you don't disable the WSIWYG editor first).

I find that going back and recategorizing posts is a pretty natural action, as the categories you initially set up might not match how you are using your blog 3 months down the road. Not to mention after importing when everything is uncategorized.

epublications on "[Request] Better Category Functionality"

epublications — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:31:27 +0000

I'd like to be able to specify the order of the categories. At present they just display in alpha order by name.

nyc2006 on "[Request] Better Category Functionality"

nyc2006 — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:34:33 +0000

As far as Sub-Catagories go, it's a great function, but there are some faults. If I want to create a Sub-Cat with the same name as another Sub-Cat that has different parent Cat it won't appear.

carlbanks on "[Request] Better Category Functionality"

carlbanks — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:25:50 +0000

I agree on multiple categories.

pandammonium on "[Request] Better Category Functionality"

pandammonium — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:31:12 +0000

I have a request about categories too. I've just imported my blog from Blogger, which contains over 500 posts. It seems that in order to categorise these, I need to go through every single one individually, which is going to take days and days.

I'd like to be able to categorise multiple posts at once. I envisage this working similarly to managing multiple links, whereby you tick a box in the post's row to select that post, then choose a category from a drop-down box.

Admittedly, this isn't going to be 100 % satisfactory, but I think it would be better than it is now. Would it be possible to add this?

drmike on "[Request] Better Category Functionality"

drmike — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:19:41 +0000

That would require a rewrite and probably should go to the developers.

Also they're not going to the default. They're suppose to. I noticed that when I redid my categories a few days ago. Seem like they go to a limbo category with nothing presented.

Good idea though.

chronotron on "[Request] Better Category Functionality"

chronotron — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:09:31 +0000

WordPress has great functionality of categories but I thought it has room for improvement. For example, I open 3 categories, one for Google, One for MSN and one for Yahoo! and then realise that I would be better off with a single one called Search Engines, then it would be nice to have a feature called Merge Categories.

Also, if a Delete a Category, everything goes to the default, which sucks. Can we get a choice, as to which category does it goto?