When this plugin was first released, custom taxonomies were practically unheard of (WordPress 2.7). Custom fields were already there and convenient to use, so it was easier at the time to use custom fields as if they were tags.
Since WP 2.9, that is no longer the case.
WordPress 3.0 is here, and so is a new version of Front-end Editor.
New features include fully editable widgets, custom post type support and editable term descriptions.
Categories are better than tags! Why? Because a category can have child categories, and grand-child categories and so on. You can do all sorts of interesting things with them.
Say you want to display the categories related to a certain post, while maintaining the hierarchy.
You could try to painstakingly re-create the category tree, or…
With custom post types comming to WordPress 3.0, a feature that’s needed on complex sites is the ability to create relationships between posts of different types.
For example, if you have a ‘review’ post type, you’ll probably want to be able to link it to an ‘event’ post type.
This version adds an option to link the user names to their author pages. All the language files are now bundled with the plugin so that you don’t have to download them on each upgrade. Last but not least, it prevents a security exploit on certain server configurations, so please upgrade as soon as possible.
If you want to develop a plugin using scbFramework, just download it, open plugin.php and start hacking.
You can select exactly which posts you want to display. The smart_archives() template tag now takes a second parameter, which accepts most of the arguments that query_posts() accepts.
Here is the “laziest” way to use it:
<?php smart_archives(”, $GLOBALS[’query_string’]); ?>
In order to run version 2.70 or newer, your host needs to be running PHP5. If you get a fatal error on activation, ask your hosting provider to upgrade your account from PHP4 (which is old, slow and a security risk).
Ever since I’ve taken over development of the WP-PageNavi plugin, I keep seeing people opening support topics like “PageNavi doesn’t show the correct posts” etc.
Most of the time, your theme is using query_posts() wrong.
This version finally brings something you can sink your teeth into, so to speak. I’m talking about the new taxonomy drill-down widget:
As you might notice from the screenshot, it works with hierarchical taxonomies too and lets you do queries like this:
?ingredients=flour+sugar&flavour=sweet
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