Nateomedia: Illustration, Art Direction, Motion Graphics

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;
}

Comments

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• Hello Nathan–

  I was looking at using your plugin to create an alphabetized archive page. Unfortunately, the plugin generated 4 “headers already sent errors” and was then inaccessible from the Plugin management page. I had to delete it and never got the chance to take it for a spin. Offhand, do you know what might have caused the errors? The warnings were on lines 11, 12, 13, 14. Comments. I removed the comments, but the same error was generated. WP 1.5.2. Any ideas?

  cheers
  SAM :)

  #1Sam Stevens

  March 29th, 2006 at 3:46 pm

• Sam —

  After doing a bit of research, it seems that header errors are most likely the result of “spaces, new lines, or other garbage before an opening <?php tag or after a closing ?> tag.” My guess is that you copied and pasted this plugin into a new document and accidently left extra spaces in the document. I suggest that you re-download the plugin by right-clicking on the above link and saving it to your drive. Thank you for your feedback!

  #2Nathan Olsen

  March 29th, 2006 at 3:52 pm

• Thanks! There was indeed one space after the closing ?>. Thanks for your quick response!

  #3Sam Stevens

  March 29th, 2006 at 6:50 pm

• Where i put the plugin code?
  archive? single post?

  #4Roberlan

  March 30th, 2006 at 9:33 am

• Every attempt to activate the plugin returns a blank page for my blog. I have downloaded several times to avoid the problem you mentioned above.

  #5andre

  March 30th, 2006 at 10:46 am

• Very cool. Just what I was looking for. Going to use it for software reviews for my friends and Dad. They are always asking me what software does this or tha, or what a particular piece of software I am using. This will work nicely on the cat page I made. Thanks!

  #6z

  March 30th, 2006 at 12:00 pm

• Roberlan — for most themes, you would place the code in your category.php file. That’s the only way to get it to work in it’s default mode. But it’s really up to you. Where do you want your list of post titles to appear? It should work just about anywhere, as long as you pass a category number to it.

  andre — If you would like me to help you resolve the issue you are encountering, you will have to be a little more specific. How are you trying to “activate” the plugin? Do you mean from within your WordPress admin interface? Or when you place the wp-snap() function on the page? In which file are you placing the function? Where in the file are you placing it? If it’s one besides category.php, you’ll have to pass a category number to it.

  z — Thank you very much for the feedback. It’s great to hear that someone has found use for this!

  #7Nathan Olsen

  March 30th, 2006 at 2:54 pm

• nateo
  I haven’t been able to get past activating in the admin interface. I dl’ed the wp-.phps file upload to my plugin directory rename wp-snap.php. Then go the the admin interface click activate then I get blank page. if I remove the wp-snap.php everything goes back to normal. I’m running WP 2.01 on a unix box

  #8andre

  March 31st, 2006 at 5:57 am

• hey nate, thanks for the answer, but in my wp installation (wp2.0.2) i don´t have “category.php” file. I can´t figure it out where to put the code…
  Anyway, thanks for the answer
  :)

  #9Roberlan

  March 31st, 2006 at 9:51 am

• andre — Off the top of my head, my first thought is that you’re having a conflict with another plugin. It would be helpful to know if you still get the blank page when you turn off all other plugins. If the blank page goes away, if you could let me know what plugins you’re using, I’ll see if I can figure out what the conflict is and fix it! Thanks!

  Roberlan — The “category.php” page would be in your theme files. So you’d go to /wp-content/themes/default/ to find category.php.

  #10Nathan Olsen

  April 1st, 2006 at 12:00 am

• nateo I found the conflict I think it was with a plugin caled book review when I removed that wp-snap activated fine. Is a horizontal list an option?

  #11andre

  April 1st, 2006 at 6:47 am

• andre — I’ll look up “book review” and see if I can figure out why it’s a conflict. Thanks for the heads up. Yes, the list can be made horizontal, you just have to add some code to your style.css file in your theme. Unfortunately, a css tutorial kind of goes beyond the scope of this plugin, but I did provide some sample css rules above. You’ll probably find that those rules will work better if you append the div id or class in which they are contained. For instance, if your php code looks like this:

  <div id="myid">
  <?php echo my_snap(); ?>
  </div>

  Then change the above styles to begin like this:

  #myid ol.snap_nav {

  #12Nathan Olsen

  April 1st, 2006 at 1:28 pm

• [...] 　　WP-SNAP!，提供按字母排列文章的导航条。 alphabetized navigating 字母 导航条 [...]

  #13Blogging Pro China » Blog Archive » WordPress Plugin: WP-SNAP!

  April 2nd, 2006 at 4:40 am

• Hello,

  I am trying to organize a list of museums on a protected install of WP that I use to organize the notes for my doctorate. I want to display a single category of entries (cat # 15). I tried the syntax that you post … … but it did not work. What am I doing wrong? How can I get it to work because this is perfect for what I am to do?

  #14Thad

  April 20th, 2006 at 6:33 am

• Hello Thad —

  You didn’t mention in your post how WP-SNAP! failed, so it’s difficult for me to suggest a solution. Is your problem that you can’t isolate it to a single category? Or that it’s not working at all?

  If you are using the default theme, go to your archive.php file and starting at line 32, change your code to something like this:

  <?php if (is_category('15')) { ?>
  <div id="someid">
  <?php echo wp_snap(); ?>
  </div>
  <?php } else { ?>
  <div class="navigation">
  <div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('« Previous Entries') ?></div>
  <div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Next Entries »') ?></div>
  </div>
  <?php } ?>

  That should get WP-SNAP! to display for the correct category, but you’ll probably want to clean things up a bit after that — maybe add a div container around it, include more html code in the else statement so that you don’t get full post entries displaying for category 15.

  Hope that helps.

  #15Nathan Olsen

  April 20th, 2006 at 10:09 am

• nateo -

  Thanks! That fixed it! Cheers!

  Sorry about not describing the problem in too much detail …

  But, thanks for the solution!

  #16Thad

  April 20th, 2006 at 3:28 pm

• Hello … today, I got an error message that I had not gotten since I started using it. Before today it had worked fine but today I get this error when I click on the category link -

  WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'publish' AND `category_id` = '15' ORDER BY `post_title` ASC' at]
  SELECT `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `ID` FROM rtp_notes_posts, rtp_notes_post2cat WHERE (left(`post_title`, 1) = ''') AND `post_id` = `ID` AND `post_status` = 'publish' AND `category_id` = '15' ORDER BY `post_title` ASC

  The other odd thing is that it works fine if I click on a letter (which are still displayed on the page below the error).

  Any help would be appreciated.

  #17Thad

  April 25th, 2006 at 5:19 am

• Sorry about posting too fast … but I figured out what broke the script. The last post that I had entered was started with ‘The Grove’ and evidently the quote breaks the script because it does not know how to handle it.

  Just wanted to let you know, cheers!

  #18Thad

  April 25th, 2006 at 5:23 am

• Hey Nate, AWESOME plugin. I’ve been tweeking with it this morning but I have one issue I can’t seem to resolve myself. I checked the box “Show Post Title and Excerpt” but only the post title shows up. Am I missing something?

  Thanks

  #19Rhine

  May 8th, 2006 at 7:25 am

• Thad — Thank you for the heads up. I’m not sure what the best way to handle this is. Any suggestions?

  Rhine — WP-SNAP doesn’t automagically create excerpts like WordPress does. It actually pulls the excerpt from the excerpt post field. So, if you didn’t write an excerpt, nothing shows up. I’m not sure that this is the best way to go about this, because I’m sure many people make use of the auto excerpts WordPress creates. I’m sure it’s a fairly easy fix, let me think about it.

  #20Nathan Olsen

  May 8th, 2006 at 8:07 am

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

2. Why do the results WP-SNAP! returns look funky? Why is it numbering every item?

   A web page is composed of two parts: a document containing HTML code and a document containing styling code (known as a Cascading Style Sheet, or CSS for short). Because WordPress templates can look so drastically different from one another, I have intentionally avoided injecting any CSS information into WP-SNAP! However, I have included several ID selectors (that can even be modified from within wp-admin) that should allow you to style WP-SNAP! to look however you’d like. Those numbered lists? You can turn them off. I do ask that you try to refrain from asking me CSS related questions — while I would love to help you, my time is limited. If you would like to learn more about CSS, I suggest visiting A List Apart or Vitamin.

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   Unfortunately, I don’t have the time to troubleshoot every installation of this plugin. However, if you believe you have discovered a bug, I encourage you to post a comment to my website and I will reply as soon as I can. I do request that you be as specific as possible when asking for assistance. Please provide a detailed account of the steps you took that resulted in the error you encountered so that I can try to reproduce it and more quickly deduce how to fix it.