WordPress Update
Jan 09
I have updated to the latest wordpress and managed to break a couple things in my theme. The way the new category system works is confusing me. Firstly my “Desired Functionality” plug-in is likely no more.. I just don’t want to have to fight with it…
But I’m now having to figure out how the heck to do the whole parent::child categories thing.. again.. This was the reason I made the plugin in the first place and since they have completely redone everything, I don’t want to have to figure the new system out..
As it stands now, it seems to me like when you say “only show the children of category foo” it shows the immediate children AND all the childrens children..etc.. Which I think is horribly broken. What you would end up with is a painfully long list of parent/children in your menu bar which makes things completely unnavigable. (is that a word?)
Its a simple fix on their part — I hope they are willing to listen to the suggestion and actually implement something here. I have a post up on the WP forums.. I hope someone helps me with this..
I was going to just hammer something out, again, but from my short gander at the results when you do a “get_the_category” it looks completely borked.. The parent child relations returned from that function are completely wrong.. So not really sure what’s going on.
On a side note the new Code editor is snazzy and fast.. Thanks for adding that guys.. that’s goodness..
Jan 10, 2008 @ 15:08:27
okay thanks to the help of several folks at the wordpress.org forums I have sorted out the issues.
I have also submitted a fix to the wordpress ticket tracking tool that fixes the whole parent/child depth thing — they had it 99% there just weren’t actually listening to the users input about depth.
Just a minor oversight.. So yay us!