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;
}

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• Hey nate! I’m a big fan of this plugin! (Even though I suck as CSS and haven’t restyled it from the default appearance). I have recommended WP-SNAP on the WP forums. If you want to see my site you can find it by googling ‘dgold green lyrics’, it’s not particularly public so I don’t want to link it in your comments.

  I just upgraded from WP-SNAP 5.x to 6.2 and it introduced an error, so I deactivated WP-SNAP until I get this figured out. Help!?

  I don’t know if this has to do with the Queries error you warned about, and I’m hoping you can tell me if that is the source of my problem before I muck around in my query code that I don’t know much about.

  The error is,
  Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: missing terminating ] for character class at offset 5 in /MyServer/MyLogin/public_html/MyBlog/wp-content/plugins/wp-snap.php on line 215

  Thanks for any hints & thanks again for the plugin

  #181dgold

  May 19th, 2007 at 12:10 pm

• Jeremiah — Currently, no. It’s on the list of possible upgrades, but the changes I made in v0.6 have been more problematic than I expected. So, before I can get to adding new functionality, I need to iron out what I’ve done so far. Sorry I’m so slow.

  dgold — I just looked at line 215 and, not only can I not see anything wrong with the code, it’s not sometime I’ve touched in any recent updates. I’m not getting an error here. If you didn’t install from the zip archive, I suggest trying that.

  #182Nathan Olsen

  May 19th, 2007 at 12:31 pm

• Nathan, sorry for the trouble, can you please think of any advice for me? After WP-Snap 6 didn’t work for me, I tried to go back to WP-Snap 0.5.4, which worked for me before.

  Now it gives me this error message:

  Warning: natsort() [function.natsort]: The argument should be an array in /home/wp-content/plugins/wp-snap.php on line 247

Warning: array_values() [function.array-values]: The argument should be an array in /home/wp-content/plugins/wp-snap.php on line 248

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/wp-content/plugins/wp-snap.php on line 250

  1. No articles found.

  Any ideas? I’d be so happy to get this plugin back.

  I’ve tried disabling other plugins that I thought might conflict, nothing changed. What else can I try.

  #183dgold

  May 31st, 2007 at 4:18 am

• I am very, very happy to announce the release of WP-SNAP! v0.7. The bugs that plagued version 0.6.x should now all be fixed and I’ve even added some new functionality.

  The biggest news:

  The plugin once again works on Pages!

  I’ve made it so that several variables can now be passed to WP-SNAP!, including one that allows you to select the category to be displayed. This is what allows the plugin to now be called on a Page. You can choose to display one category, one category plus all child categories, or all categories.

  I’ve also made it possible to select which navigational style should be used when WP-SNAP! is called, making it possible to use the plugin in several different places on your site using a different navigational style in each spot.

  Cool, huh? :)

  #184Nathan Olsen

  May 31st, 2007 at 1:32 pm

• I just tried upgrading WP-SNAP from 0.5.4 to 0.7.1 and received similar errors to what dgold was receiving with version 6 of WP-SNAP.

  I am also getting the “Warning: natcasesort() [function.natcasesort]: The argument should be an array in /home/wp-content/plugins/wp-snap.php on line 241″ and others.

  I am still using WordPress version 2.0.2 and plan on upgrading soon. Could this be the problem?

  What version of WordPress has WP-SNAP 0.7.1 been tested with and proven to work?

  Thank you for this great plugin and keep up the good work. I reverted back to 0.5.4 for now, but would like to go to 0.7.1 if possible.

  #185cnc137

  June 9th, 2007 at 10:09 am

• I finally got WP-SNAP 0.7.1 working with WordPress 2.0.10. It was related to the “post_type” query on line 209 in “wp-snap.php”.

  It was originally like this:

  $where .= " AND (post_type = 'post' AND (post_status = 'publish'";

  I changed it to the following and it fixed the errors that were appearing in my post above:

  $where .= " AND (post_type = '' AND (post_status = 'publish'";

  The “post_type” option is something WordPress 2.1 and above has values for, but 2.0.x leaves it blank if I am not mistaken.

  I also had to re-enable the WordPress loop on the page to display the articles below the letter choices. Version 0.5.4 automatically display the list of articles, so that threw me a little when I upgraded to 0.7.1. I still need to format the items that the loop generates to look like they use to in version 0.5.4.

  At least I got it working and thanks for the email Nathan, since you pointed me in the right direction that let me figure out the problem.

  Thanks again for the great plugin! :)

  #186cnc137

  June 11th, 2007 at 10:23 am

• cnc137 — I’m glad you were able to figure it out. And thank you for posting your solution so that other who might be in your situation can benefit from it. Hopefully you’ll be upgrading WordPress to take advantage of the added security and bug fixes so this won’t be a problem for you long term.

  Yes, WP-SNAP! now uses the WordPress Loop. I know it’s a different way of doing things, but I think the amount of customization that you can now do far outweighs the inconvenience of having to reformat things. It’s the way I should have done it in the first place, if I’d understood how.

  #187Nathan Olsen

  June 11th, 2007 at 10:31 am

• I totally agree. WP-SNAP 0.5.4 worked great, but the way 0.7.1 uses the WordPress loop opens up all sorts of possibilities. It also allows me to add things to the listing by using WordPress’s template files without having to modify WP-SNAP’s code.

  Thanks again for all your hard work. This plugin is exactly what I need for our redesigned website and hopefully I will be able to get the new design online sooner than later.

  #188cnc137

  June 11th, 2007 at 11:18 am

• Hi,

  This is really nice plugin but unfornately it has a conflict with simpletagging plugin.

  I have a book review blog and use simpletagging to show the author of the book.

  I use WP 2.0.1 and simpletagging 1.6.0

  #189efrasiyab

  June 14th, 2007 at 2:09 am

• i have problems with the WP-Snap.
  when i activate the plugins, this affect the post query of my database and appear this error:

  WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'blogroll' in 'where clause']
  SELECT link_url, link_name FROM wp_links WHERE link_visible = ‘Y’ AND link_category != blogroll ORDER BY link_name

  who can help me?

  #190djluis

  June 18th, 2007 at 5:56 am

• hello

  is there an option to limit numer of links per letter, let me explain, i have 156 post titles under letter B, 214 under letter S… and these pages are very big, i need somehow to display first 50 titles, then next 50…. i need an option to paginate pages like this plugin except this plugin is for comments http://www.keyvan.net/code/paged-comments/

  also is there an option for little more seo friendly pages, for example now is site.com/category/blabla/?snap=B i need to be more like site.com/category/blabla/B

  thx in advance

  #191happy user

  June 18th, 2007 at 7:12 am

• Hi,

  I thanks a lot for that great plugin!

  For now, I think there is a simple thing that could do a lot for the plugin: the possibility of choosing which letter does appear selected when we click the category link. Is there any line in the code that can be manually changed for that?

  Another thing: this plugin has the great functionality of allowing us to display more than one letter at once! Like “?cat=yourcatnumber&snap=A+S” to display both posts with A and with S!!!

  Like, to display all posts from the category, alphabetically, we just have to use: …./?cat=yourcatnumber&snap=A+B+C+D+E+F+G+H+I+J+K+L+M+N+O+P+Q+R+S+T+U+V+W+X+Y+Z+#

  That’s alll for now!

  Tks!

  #192Fabricio

  June 27th, 2007 at 9:11 pm

• Your plugin has been very useful. Thanks so much.

  I’m having some difficulty, however, getting it to work with a custom plugin that I made to filter posts based on custom meta fields assigned to the post. Would you have any idea why? The plugin I’ve written is pretty standard, and changing the filter priority doesn’t seem to have any effect.

  Thanks again for the wonderful plugin.

  #193Chris

  June 29th, 2007 at 8:01 am

• Chris — WP-SNAP! is probably bypassing your filtering because I do my own database call (by necessity) and then pass the results back to $wp_query->posts. I can’t get the database filtering I need going through filters because filters run before the page loads, and the user needs to be able to make requests as the page loads. However, I could look into filters running on the database results that I pull.

  Fabricio — Interesting! I didn’t know I programmed that in. :) Go me. As far as being able to chose the letter that appears, this wouldn’t take much coding, but I can’t understand why you’d want to do this (not that I necessarily have to — but it might help me understand how big of a need there is for this feature). If I understand correctly, if a user loads a category where WP-SNAP! is called, you want it to start on, say, letter “S” instead of letter “A”? This won’t confuse users? And there’s a benefit?

  happy user — Pagination does not currently exist. It’s a feature I’ve contemplated, but not yet implemented. You are the first to request it.

  djluis — Have you looked for a conflict with other plugins that you have installed? On what template are you calling WP-SNAP!?

  efrasiyab — Thanks for the info. I’ll look into it. Do you know what the conflict is?

  #194Nathan Olsen

  June 29th, 2007 at 8:20 am

• Hey!

  Great plugin, fast answers! You’re in a good way here right now!

  1) Cool that this great function I mentioned (A+B+…+Z) was there, even if it was just by good luck! ;)

  2) About the featured I suggested, you got it correctly: the big point is not choosing the initial letter to show…….. But leting users choose to show, as initial option, ALL the posts under the category that uses your plugin. My great request indeed is not altering the initial letter, but choosing to start showing ALL posts and not “A” posts.

  To tell the truth, I was really thinking about that: changing letter A from the inicial position could let me, using A+B+C+…+Z as mentioned, to config the page to start not showing posts under A, but all post! What is it usefull for? Because it is a simple way of ordering post alphabetically, not by date!!! And that is pretty great, isn’t it?

  For example: I have a blog where I publish my doctorship program status week-by-week. There is a cetegory to group posts that coment each of my bibliographic references. Then, if I want to call a page with your plugin starting showing all posts alphabetically, I must create a link outside of blogroll that calls ?cat=3&snap=A+B+C…+Z It works, but I have to manage sidebar links out of blogroll AND blogroll just because of that… and believe me: I have a lot of links to show in there!! I gives me a lot of extra work!

  Anyway, if you have any other way of enabling me to start with all posts, just to order them alphabetically, it should be fine! And I will really love it! What do you think about that?

  I hope that all this can be usefull……..

  Thanks and congratulation for the great work until now!

  #195Fabricio Vasselai

  July 3rd, 2007 at 10:05 pm

• Wow, great plugin!

  We’ll be using it in our reviews section as it is just what we’re looking for!

  Thanks!

  #196Limpit

  July 17th, 2007 at 7:54 am

• Hi, I’m pretty much very happy with your plugin so thank you VERY much. I’m trying to use WordPress to manage all of my stories and poems and your plugin is very helpful (I can organize my poems my title!).

  I have a suggestion as well. Instead of initially showing posts under the first letter (in most cases, “A”), I would like for *none* to show up. It looks like my suggestion is the opposite of Fabricio, who wants all of them to show if I understood correctly. The reason why I’d like that is because the visitors will go to the page and click the letters on their own… I feel there is no need to force any letters to show up for visitors. It’s not that big of a deal but it might be nice ;)

  Thanks again!

  #197Kim

  August 20th, 2007 at 4:05 pm

• Hi,
  Thanx for the great plugin.
  I have a problem. in one of the categories which includes 700 posts wp-snap shows a blank page. is it about the number of posts? or is there any other problem? in other categories which has 100 posts or less there is no problem. But only 700 posted one. any suggestion?

  #198Newbie

  September 6th, 2007 at 12:17 am

• Hi Nathan - a belated thanks for reintroducing the ability to use WP-SNAP! on pages. Most appreciated. I also wanted to thank you for all the help you provide in these comments–they are among the most useful I’ve seen anywhere in support of a plugin. Thank you for all the hard work.

  #199Shanta

  September 9th, 2007 at 10:24 am

• Fabricio & Kim — You’re request has been noted. I will in some future release include a show all/none option.

  Newbie — Thank you for notifying me that there might be an issue with large post counts. If you really strongly believe that the issue lies with the plugin and you’d really like to see it fixed, it would really help me if you did some more investigation and gave me some more information about what’s happening. Specifically, do you know at what number of posts the issue starts occurring? What your post seems to suggest is that the issue might be with categories that have three digit integers (i.e., 100 posts or greater) but does not effect categories with two digit integers (i.e., 99 posts or less). If this is the case, I can definitely dig into this problem and get it fixed, but if it’s some other arbitrary number… well, it would still be useful to know what that is because it might hint at a solution. Thanks!

  Limpit & Shanta — Thank you for the kind words. It always makes me happy to hear that the effort I’ve put into this plugin is appreciated. When I started work on this thing, I had absolutely no idea how much time I’d have to invest to make a plugin that, when it comes down to it, does so little.

  All — It’s been several months since the last time I updated this plugin. That can be attributed to several factors: 1) The plugin now works without any problems (Newbie’s potential issue excluded); 2) I have been very busy; 3) I haven’t really received many requests for additional features. User feedback is a huge motivator for me and, right now, it seems like most people are pretty satisfied with the way things are. That’s a good thing, by the way. :) It seems to me that this plugin pretty much now does what it was designed to do and does it pretty well. There are still some rough edges to smooth out, but I don’t feel any sense of urgency to address those issues. The last major feature I’d like to implement is “pretty” permalinks. And that should happen sometime in the next couple of months. At that point, I will be seriously thinking about moving the plugin’s version to 1.0 to emphasis the its maturity and stability and shift the focus from major feature enhancements to minor bug fixes and upgrades. This is not to say that features you want to see added to this plugin cannot happen — they can! — but I need to hear from you (the users) what you’d like to see happen next.

  #200Nathan Olsen

  September 10th, 2007 at 12:16 pm

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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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   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.