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ol.snap_nav {
	display: inline;
	float: left;
	clear: both;
	list-style: none;
}

ol.snap_nav li {
	display: block;
	float: left;
	padding: 0 2px 10px 0;
}

ol.snap_nav li a {
	font-weight: bold
}

ol.snap_nav li.snap_selected a {
	cursor: text;
}

ol.snap_titles {
	clear: both;
	display: block;
	border: 0;
	list-style: none;
}

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• I’ve just dowload the plugin, but I don’t find the option to exclude the first word from alphabetizing. Can you help me?

  #401maurizio

  June 28th, 2009 at 6:06 am

• Modesty — You would need to alter the plugin code to do that.

  Taeke — I have absolutely no idea. My plate is full right now.

  Maurizio — It’s on the plugin’s administration page in the Wordpress control panel.

  #402Nathan Olsen

  June 29th, 2009 at 2:53 pm

• Thank you, but I need to automatically alphabetize all posts by 2nd word. What can I do?

  tnx

  #403maurizio

  June 30th, 2009 at 5:23 am

• I am trying to have the first page show all the posts grouped by their letters. Then when you click a letter, it will go to that section. How can I do this? or At least show all the posts on first page with their letter group?

  #404TMW

  June 30th, 2009 at 9:11 am

• Thanks for the work on this plugin. I’m having a very general problem though: nothing shows up when I include the code before the loop. I’ve tried a few different themes, disabled all other plugins – still no luck. I’m using 2.7.1, can you think of anything that would cause this to happen?

  #405YMO

  July 17th, 2009 at 5:49 pm

• Hy I Installed your plugin on http://logitune.fm
  and it allmost works (it displays where it should, i have links on the letters that have posts starting with that letter) but when i click on a letter it snaps to the top of the page… not to that letter

  any sugestions?

  #406Bogdan

  July 27th, 2009 at 8:18 am

• Hi,

  I’m using sub cateogries and I’d like the plugin to display the subcateories when the main category is visited is this possible.

  Regards

  Colin

  #407Car Hire

  July 29th, 2009 at 2:59 am

• Should this plugin be compatible with WP 2.8.2? I am getting array errors and other problems when trying to run it under 2.8.2: Warning: natcasesort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in …\plugins\wp-snap\wp-snap.php on line 358

  #408Kyle

  July 30th, 2009 at 5:21 am

• Very great plugin thank you ! But i have some problems with it. In the alphabetical list it put only some posts represent 20 % of all my posts … I dont understand why … I use WP version 2.7.1 if that can help you.

  #409Thomas

  July 30th, 2009 at 8:42 am

• maurizio, TMW & Bogdan — I don’t have an answer for you. If you need that functionality, you will need to research your own solution.

  YMO — Try it on a new, unmodified version of Wordpress and see if you get the same result. If you do, then you are doing something wrong because should be working. If it works, then the problem lies with something else you are doing.

  Logan — Yes, you can display subcategories. wp_snap(‘child=true’)

  Kyle — Yes, it should be. The error you are getting is because you are using the plugin on an empty category. Enter some content into Wordpress and it will work.

  Thomas — 20% of how many posts? If you have thousands of posts, you are probably going to run into problems. The server is going to be cranking through your database to generate that page. Have you ever successfully generated a Wordpress page with hundreds or thousands of posts on it? It’s not a plugin problem really, just a limitation of the web.

  #410Nathan Olsen

  July 31st, 2009 at 12:35 am

• Is there a way to alphabetize the posts using WP-SNAP?

  On the site I’m working on now “A Glimmer of Hope” is coming after “African Studies”

  #411Jeph

  August 4th, 2009 at 12:36 pm

• In addition to the problem I’m having above, I discovered today that the “Ignore When Alphabetizing” field isn’t working. I have “the,a,” in the field but things are still being listed by ‘The’. Anyone have any ideas?

  #412Jeph

  August 7th, 2009 at 11:26 am

• Disregard comment #412, I wasn’t reading the directions clearly (which is usually the problem with those sorts of requests).

  I’m still getting the weird alphabetization problem in #411 – where “A Glimmer” is being alphabetized as “AGlimmer”. I have told it to ignore “A ” for now and that works but I think my client may want to have it on top. Ideas?

  Thanks for the great plugin!

  #413Jeph

  August 10th, 2009 at 6:38 am

• Excellent!
  can it be used to sort tags as well?

  #414mhhuk

  August 27th, 2009 at 1:57 am

• Thank you for answer Nathan. When i’m say 20 % of all my post, all my post represent around 150, 200 posts and pages.

  #415Thomas

  August 28th, 2009 at 6:58 am

• Sorry if I missed this somewhere, but how can I get the index to appear for only one category?

  My site has several categories on which I do not what the alphabetical index to show. Is there anything I can add in the ‘arguments’ field to have the index only appear on only one category’s page?

  Thanks

  #416Richard

  September 5th, 2009 at 6:47 pm

• Hi,

  unfortunately my site does not have a category.php.
  Where else can I or should put the code to make this plugin work?

  Thanks in advance for any helpful hint.

  #417Petra

  September 7th, 2009 at 5:47 pm

• Jeph — The current sort function in the plugin is the php function, natsort(). If it’s not alphabetizing things the way you want, there’s not much I can do about it. There is a newer version of the plugin floating around on my hard drive in which I started building my own sort function (so that international languages would be better supported), but it’s not really ready for release. Unfortunately, I don’t really have much time these days to work on this plugin.

  mhhuk — No, you cannot.

  Thomas — Same question: can you normally display 200 posts at a time? If you cannot display that many posts when not using the plugin, then you will not be able to do so when using the plugin. I mean, what you’re saying is that the plugin lists all posts down to, say, the letter “J” and then stops, right? Or are you saying that the plugin randomly omits posts throughout the alphabet? If it’s random omissions, you should see if those posts have anything in common. Are they all in the same category, for instance? Perhaps it has something to do with how you set up the plugin.

  Richard — You should use the Wordpress conditional tag is_category().

  Petra — You can put the plugin on any part of your site that you want. If you don’t have a category.php file, you can make one. Unfortunately, I do not have the time to help you with this. Good luck!

  #418Nathan Olsen

  September 7th, 2009 at 8:22 pm

• Hey Nathan, was just wondering if it were possible to place the navigation on single pages too? I’ve tried using on single.php:
  
  But this shows all posts starting with the same letter. Any advice you could offer would be great!

  #419Mike

  October 2nd, 2009 at 9:18 am

• Hello

  I’m using this plugin on my site http://www.marketcolorz.com under glossary page. But its not working fine, as soon as I add the desired code for alphabetical listing, its showing many errors and warnings.

  #420Varun

  October 4th, 2009 at 7:22 am

• Mike — Yes. This is the code:

  if (function_exists(‘wp_snap’)) { echo wp_snap(‘cat=1′);

  Where “1″ equals the category you wish to display on the page.

  Varun — If you have no posts in the category, the plugin displays errors. You need to enter posts into the category.

  #421Nathan Olsen

  October 4th, 2009 at 3:27 pm

• Hi Nathan,

  I’ve got some strange problem with plugin. Every thing works fine, but when I click on some letter, category shows posts beginning with some other letter. You can check here: http://www.playportal.cz/download

  For example – let’s click to N letter – category returns you article “Download: TeamSpeak”.

  I have excluded “Download: “. But doesn’t works even if I don’t do it.

  Thank you very much for help. Best regards, weckho

  #422weckho

  October 10th, 2009 at 6:39 am

• weckho — I cannot duplicate your problem using the latest version of the plugin and Wordpress 2.8.4. My guess is that the problem has to do with the fact that your site is running in another language. Unfortunately, while I made some progress in this area, I have never fully implemented multi-language support for the plugin.

  #423Nathan Olsen

  October 10th, 2009 at 12:20 pm

• Thanks for quick reply – could you, please, be more factual about the language problems? What acctualy could cause this problems? If you provide me more informations, maybe I will be able to fix it myself (I’ve got advance PHP skills). Now I have no idea, how can language of the site affect the plugin function.

  Many thanks, weckho

  #424weckho

  October 10th, 2009 at 2:01 pm

• weckho — Your language uses a different alphabet from English. The plugin’s main function is to sort words by alphabetical letter order — the plugin’s sort function have to be written an entirely different way to support alphabets other than English.

  There is an experimental version of the plugin that offers international character support. I am not comfortable releasing it to the general public because it has not been tested enough. I will email you a copy.

  #425Nathan Olsen

  October 10th, 2009 at 2:23 pm

• Is there a way to select more than one category for display? For example, I have 4 categories I want to display on a master page (with 4 sub-pages that just show the results from one category each).

  I tried playing with cat=6,8&firstload=all and cat=6&cat=8&firstload=all but neither work.

  Is it possible to display all of the posts from a more than one category but NOT ALL categories?

  #426Cliff

  October 13th, 2009 at 1:34 pm

• Cliff — No, you can only select one category. But you can include child categories, so that could solve your problem if you were willing to group those 4 categories under one main category.

  However, I can see how it would be preferable to be able to include more than one category. I’ll see what I can do.

  #427Nathan Olsen

  October 13th, 2009 at 2:01 pm

• Love the plugin, finially got it to work except….

  What’s the format to allow multiple criteria?

  I am trying to limit to a specific catagory, but allow child catagories.

  Here’s what I’ve tried so far (catagory numbers are correct for my installation)…

  Works but no child cats

  Same as above

  Same as above

  What format should I be using for multiple criteria?

  #428Propy

  October 16th, 2009 at 4:31 pm

• Ooops code got removed

  ‘cat=123′

  tried this

  ‘cat=123′ , ‘child=true’

  and this

  ‘cat=123, child=true’

  #429Propy

  October 16th, 2009 at 4:34 pm

• Description seems to say this plug is for Posts ONLY. Why not also enable for Pages?

  #430mugger

  October 20th, 2009 at 9:26 am

• Propy — An example is given above. It’s just like Wordpress:

  if (function_exists(‘wp_snap’)) { echo wp_snap(‘cat=123&child=true’);

  mugger — From the first sentence of the plugin description: “creates an alphabetical listing of post titles on a Category or Page template file.” Yes, it works on Pages, you just need to declare a category to display when you add the code to the theme template file.

  #431Nathan Olsen

  October 20th, 2009 at 9:56 am

• Hi,
  I am looking for a way to obtain a glossary of my tags
  Since WP-SNAP does a similar thing drawing the posts of a category, would it be possible to tie it somehow to wp_tag_cloud() or tag_list() functions?

  Thanks for any advice.

  #432rb

  October 23rd, 2009 at 8:19 am

• rb — I’m sure it’s possible. I don’t know how easy it would be to do, but feel free to poke through the plugin and experiment. Good luck!

  #433Nathan Olsen

  October 23rd, 2009 at 9:44 am

• Hi nathan
  i messed up with the code and came out with a sort of diminished plugin outputting a ordered list of all the tags on a wordpress site.
  if you like to take a look at the code and eventually provide this option, maybe it’s a good start and i want to share back the awful meshing of code i have produced

  basically i used your code, substituted a simple mysql query for all the tags of a site and changed the output to be a list of the tags instead of the post for the loop.

  you can get my mail from the comment :)

  #434rb

  November 1st, 2009 at 12:57 pm

• Hi.

  Wordpress 2.8.6
  WP-SNAP! 0.8.6

  Edited page template to include

  if (function_exists(‘wp_snap’)) { echo wp_snap(‘cat=3&firstload=ALL’); }

  verified that the category has multiple posts.
  verified that the category id is 3.

  Browsing to the page will result in the following messages, and only “ALL # A B C …” is displayed but not hyperlinked.

  This was working fine in wordpress 2.6.5 before I upgraded.

  Any ideas? Thank you.

  Warning: natcasesort() [function.natcasesort]: The argument should be an array in /home/username/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-snap/wp-snap.php on line 358

  Warning: array_values() [function.array-values]: The argument should be an array in /home/username/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-snap/wp-snap.php on line 359

  Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/username/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-snap/wp-snap.php on line 361

  #435Rami

  December 3rd, 2009 at 12:10 am

• That warning only appears when there is no content in the category. There are no known problems with the plugin in 2.8.6. I know it must be frustrating, but I’m afraid to report that the problem you are encountering is user error.

  The place to start? Turn off all other plugins and see if the problem persists. If there are posts in the correct category as you say, that’s probably where the issue is.

  #436Nathan Olsen

  December 3rd, 2009 at 12:16 am

• Hi Nathan,

  Thank you.

  I have discovered a compatibility issue with

  WP Security Scan 2.7.1.2 and WP-SNAP! 0.8.6 running on Wordpress 2.8.6

  #437Rami

  December 3rd, 2009 at 12:31 am

• Hi Nathan,

  I’m using your plugin and everything works fine, but I have all the same a question: how can I define the number of posts to show?
  For example, instead of displaying all the posts beginning with letter “A” I would like to display only 10 and then get the previous/next links.

  I played with the “blog pages show at least 10 posts” in the settings but it had no effect.
  I think this question has already been raised but I was not able to find a solution.

  Any idea?

  Thanx in advance!

  #438Seb

  December 11th, 2009 at 1:45 pm

• Seb — You haven’t been able to limit the number of posts because the plugin does not do pagination. Pagination is not a trivial upgrade to the plugin and I don’t have the time to write in that functionality right now. Sorry.

  #439Nathan Olsen

  December 11th, 2009 at 1:58 pm

• Hi Nathan,

  I’d like to have ALL of my posts display A-Z on one of my pages, with the nav menu at the top of the page. Not using a specific category, just querying all posts for one giant glossary. Is that possible? Or would I have to go back and categorize every single post with a ‘glossary’ category?

  Thanks.

  #440Taylor

  December 12th, 2009 at 7:42 am

• Taylor — Yes, the instructions for doing that are above.

  if (function_exists('wp_snap')) { echo wp_snap('cat=all'); }

  #441Nathan Olsen

  December 13th, 2009 at 12:46 am

• I see how to call all categories, but I am working in page.php with an if is_page statement. I have one set page where I want this all to take place. Still possible?

  Thanks.

  #442Taylor

  December 13th, 2009 at 5:59 am

• Taylor — Yes, it works on Pages. It’s the exact same code.

  #443Nathan Olsen

  December 14th, 2009 at 1:27 am

• You haven’t been able to limit the number of posts because the plugin does not do pagination. Pagination is not a trivial upgrade to the plugin and I don’t have the time to write in that functionality right now. Sorry.

  Thanx for answering, I hope you will think about it for a future upgrade ;)

  Anyway, I’ve found an alternative solution! I use a Jquery pagination system. It was really easy to integrate for my need, you should take a look :)

  Greetings.
  Seb

  #444Seb

  December 20th, 2009 at 12:02 pm

• I’ve used your plugin with new 2.9.1 but doesn’t work.
  I’ve post in category but it say me always

  Warning: natcasesort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in \wp-content\plugins\wp-snap\wp-snap.php on line 358

  Warning: array_values() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in \wp-content\plugins\wp-snap\wp-snap.php on line 359

  Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in \wp-content\plugins\wp-snap\wp-snap.php on line 361

  Warning: natsort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in \plugins\wp-snap\wp-snap.php on line 376

  Warning: array_values() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in \wp-content\plugins\wp-snap\wp-snap.php on line 377

  I’ve tried with cat=all and with cat= number
  but nothing.

  #445Prova

  January 12th, 2010 at 5:21 am

• Ok sorry i’ve found the problem, is the wp security scan that broken your plugin.

  #446Prova

  January 12th, 2010 at 5:25 am

• Looks great, just what I was wanted!

  One thing though: is it possible to sort listings using tags? So for example, I’ve selected D and all matching posts are displayed, now within these results I want to sort by tag1, tag2 and tag3 (the could be for example, location, genre etc..

  That would be awesome.

  #447Ibrahim

  January 25th, 2010 at 4:12 am

• Ibrahim — No such functionality exists for the plugin.

  #448Nathan Olsen

  February 4th, 2010 at 12:57 pm

• Hi,
  I created a specific category-x.php for showing alphabetic index with a list of the posts in the glossary-category. that works fine and links to the specific post.
  Now I want define a specific single.php for the glossary entries, which shows the alphabetic index, too.
  But the index links to /glossary_cat/post/letter and after the loop (with the specific glossary post, f.e. “internet”) sadly it shows all loops with the letter A, too.

  There are any possibility to show the alphabetic index above the glossary post (which is an article in a specific category)?

  Thanks for your hard work.

  Greetz from Brazil,
  BrasilOnline

  #449BrasilOnline

  February 6th, 2010 at 3:58 am

• Assuming each definition is in a single category, something like this should work. I’m afraid that if you need something more complex, you’ll need to do the work yourself. But, yes, it can be done.

  foreach(get_the_category() as $category) { $thecat = $category->cat_ID; }
  if (function_exists(‘wp_snap’)) { echo wp_snap(‘cat=$thecat’); }

  #450Nathan Olsen

  February 6th, 2010 at 10:16 am

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1. When will the next version of your plugin be released?

   As soon as I find the time, I will update the plugin and release a new version. I understand how frustrating it can be to be so close to having the perfect Wordpress installation only to be held up by a plugin that just needs a little more work to be exactly what’s needed. However, please remember that I am not paid write this plugin and that, like you, I have a family and responsibilities that extend far beyond this little piece of code. I really appreciate your enthusiasm, but if you wish to reap the benefits of my freely given labor, then you must be satisfied with doing so on my timetable. Otherwise, if you simply cannot wait, you are more than welcome to modify and extend the capabilities of my plugin yourself.

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