Daniel’s DropDowns 2.0.1 – WordPress Plug-In
I have released version 2.0.1 of Daniel’s DropDowns, the WordPress plug-in that provides category and archive dropdown template tags. It is available on its page at the WordPress Plug-In Directory.
This was a minor change – the auto-navigating lists added in version 2 needed a slight tweak. There wasn’t a “select category” entry, so one could not navigate to the first item in the list without going somewhere else first. The category dropdown now has this entry, and is consistent with the archive dropdown.
Enjoy!
BryGuy said,
March 27, 2008 at 12:02 pm
do you have an example of Plug-In?
Daniel said,
March 27, 2008 at 7:15 pm
All the plug-ins I have written for WordPress are simply code that provides “template tags” (WP-speak for a function call). For those, you can download a copy of Daniel’s DropDowns – it’s pretty well commented with what each part does. For additional information, you can look at the WordPress Plug-ins Information Page. You can write plug-ins to do things automatically as well, using “hooks” – I haven’t learned that technique.
Basically, if you make a PHP file, have the header correct, and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins directory, it will show up on the Plug-ins page. You enable it, and then it’s good to go.
I hope that points you in the right direction. You could also download plug-ins from the WP plug-in directory and look at what they do – that may be the best way to determine “how” to do the hooks. (That’s probably the technique I’ll use when I decide to figure out hooks.)
Aaron said,
May 9, 2008 at 6:11 pm
BTW, I have downloaded the file for you plug today (5/9/08) and it is th eOLD version where you can’t select the first category on the list.
Would you provide a link here, on your site, so I (we) can download the latest please?
Here’s where I’m using it http://www.mezzaluna.biz/inspirations/ Still having some trouble with the custom theme – all the inner pages lose the formating!? But, your plugin works great.
Aaron said,
May 9, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Actually, I take it back … I looked at the plugin and it shows version 2.0.1 AND I see the code bit that say s to include the “Select Category” item. However, it is not doing so on mine. Firefox on a PC. Ideas for troubleshooting?
Daniel said,
May 9, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Let me take a look at this – I hadn’t looked at this with the WP 2.5-series. Since I’m using string replaces, if the way the template tag comes back with data has changed, it won’t find the text it’s trying to find as its placeholder. I just checked on my themes that use it, and it doesn’t have that entry on it either. Look for an update soon…
Daniel said,
May 9, 2008 at 8:06 pm
I just committed version 2.1 to the plug-in directory. It can take up to an hour to show up – I’m keeping an eye on it, and I’ll post an update in a new post when it’s available.