Comments on: Daniel’s DropDowns 2.0.1 – WordPress Plug-In

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:06:01 +0000

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.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:44:12 +0000

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…

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:14:44 +0000

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?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:11:04 +0000

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.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:15:29 +0000

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.)

By: BryGuy

BryGuy — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:02:03 +0000

do you have an example of Plug-In?