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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• Ki — Nice idea. No guarantees when it will happen, but I think that would be an excellent feature to include. I’ve added it to my list. Thank you for your feedback!

  If you’re going to use WP-SNAP! as your navigation, you could edit your single.php file to have a “Return to listings” link and use $_SERVER['Request_URI'] to create the address link.

  #221Nathan Olsen

  November 8th, 2007 at 9:25 am

• Hello. I followed your instructions to use this plug-in very closely, and have tried it twice. I am using wordpress 2.3.1.

  I uploaded the plugin, activated it, then added the
  [?php if (function_exists('wp_snap')) { echo wp_snap(); } ?]

  to the top of /wp-includes/category.php and uploaded.

  I added your generic styles to /wp-content/themes/style.css.

  When I go to “write” or create a new entry, I get a php header already sent (by category.php) error after I submit, or hit “publish”. It does make the entry on the main page, but it’s not sorting anything alphabetically.

  As soon as I de-activate the plugin and remove the additions to the two files (style.css, and category.php) everything returns to normal.

  Any help is appreciated. My goal is to have all categories, entries, etc to be listed in alphabeticall order.

  Thanks!

  Jeff

  #222Jeff

  November 8th, 2007 at 11:18 am

• Jeff — Your description of the issue you’re encountering isn’t making any sense to me. I’d like to email you about this issue so that you can send me your category.php file. Can you please include your email address in your next comment? It is not published and it will only be seen by me. Thanks.

  #223Nathan Olsen

  November 8th, 2007 at 11:37 am

• My email address was included in that post Nathan. Just as it is in this one.

  Thanks.

  #224Jeff

  November 8th, 2007 at 11:38 am

• Hi Nathan,

  Cool plugin! Very customizable! But like many things, each individual wants his own settings (and even better, cause what would the world be like if we were all the same..) So here’s my config issue:

  I want to ‘call’ the index from my sidebar. I have only one category and made it default (must be if there’s only one). I placed a execPHP widget in the sidebar (I tried several with the same result) and added the code to it.

  Now the index shows me the letters which have a post in it (only a few so far) and I can click on them but then nothing happens. I stay on the homepage. When I hover over a letter in the index, I see /?snap=x added to the domain (where x = the letter I hover) while I'd expect /categories/mycategorie/?snap=x after the domainname.

  Any idea? Is this because it's executed from a widget in the sidebar instead of a post?

  Kind regards,

  Léon.

  #225Leon

  November 23rd, 2007 at 5:02 am

• Léon — You shouldn’t expect it to switch your URL to something different, because that’s not what it does. WP-SNAP! works on the page currently being viewed and will change the results of the Wordpress Loop on that page. If your sidebar follows your Loop in the php code, then it won’t even do that.

  #226Nathan Olsen

  November 23rd, 2007 at 9:24 am

• Nathan,

  Thanks for the prompt reply. What I understand from your answer is that it’s not possible to get an index of a given category from a page but only from a post. Is there a way to get it to work from a page when there’s only 1 category?

  Thanks.

  #227Leon

  November 24th, 2007 at 4:05 am

• Léon — You absolutely can get the plugin to work on a Page. When you click on a letter, the results are displayed in the Wordpress Loop on the same web page as the navigation. It will not redirect you to some other URL. After the results are listed, clicking on one of the entries should then redirect you to the URL of that post.

  As I hinted at before, I suspect your issue is that you are calling WP-SNAP! after your Wordpress Loop. It’s the same issue Jeff above had. Restructure your theme so that your sidebar comes before your Loop.

  Unfortunately, I do not have the time to solve this issue for you. It does not sound like the plugin is malfunctioning, but that you do not have much experience making web pages. Wordpress has great support forums for answering those kinds of questions.

  #228Nathan Olsen

  November 24th, 2007 at 9:37 am

• Hi again.
  Dear Nathan, The The problem as i told before was not about the plugin. Just about searching big amount of data.. when the response time off or something else, it crashes. it’s not about the digits. i tried plugin via 100-200 and more, it works good.. but if there are much more posts like 700-1000 or much more, it crashes. i think it is about the server/response time or db stuff.. huge data makes slower everything. :) thanx again for a really good plugin.

  #229Newbie

  November 26th, 2007 at 7:55 pm

• Newbie — Ah, well, my plugin uses the Wordpress Loop to display data. So, if you’re having problems displaying 700 posts on a single page using WP-SNAP!, I’m guessing that you’d have the same problem if you tried to display 700 posts on a page without my plugin running. It’s a Wordpress problem, really. However, what could help is if there was a paging system. WP-SNAP! doesn’t have a paging system at this point, because no one has previously reported an issue such as yours. I don’t think there will ever be a way to display 700 posts on a single page, so would a paging system be something you are interested in?

  #230Nathan Olsen

  November 26th, 2007 at 11:17 pm

• I would love a paging system as well. My blog is getting up there with posts and I can see where it would help.

  #231Ki

  November 28th, 2007 at 12:21 am

• Been waiting for the fancy url’s for a while, so I was glad to see the update. For some reason when I go to update the options, though, I just get a blank page, and the changes aren’t saved. Any suggestions as to what may be causing this?

  #232Shane

  December 1st, 2007 at 7:42 am

• Shane — Assuming that you are using Wordpress 2.1.x or higher, I’m guessing that it’s a conflict with another plugin. Try turning off everything else and see if you still have problems. If it is another plugin, if you let me know which one, I’ll take a look at it.

  #233Nathan Olsen

  December 1st, 2007 at 9:27 am

• Tried to to update to .8 and when activating fancy url i get this error:

  Fatal error: Call to undefined function: str_split() in /home/website/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-snap.php on line 499

  #234ki

  December 2nd, 2007 at 1:51 pm

• Ki — Thanks! I didn’t realize it, but str_split is PHP 5 only. I’ll revise to make it work in PHP 4.

  #235Nathan Olsen

  December 2nd, 2007 at 6:12 pm

• Hello Nathan,
  Just letting you know I tried .8.1 and after activating fancy url and then click on a letter I would get this error message :
  Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/user/public_html/wp-content/themes/blue-zinfandel-10/404.php on line 45

  works fine if fancy url is not checked…

  #236Ki

  December 3rd, 2007 at 12:45 am

• Ki — If you switch to the default theme, do you get the same error?

  #237Nathan Olsen

  December 3rd, 2007 at 1:11 am

• Nathan hard to say because all the custom page indexes I made reside in that particular theme. I will try to set up the same in the default theme and see if it works. thanks,
  Ki

  #238Ki

  December 3rd, 2007 at 10:02 pm

• Ki — The error you are reporting is with your theme, not the plugin. The two are incompatible in some way. If you’ve customize the theme on top of that, there’s really no way for me to know what that incompatibility is without you doing further testing. To start, just stick the php call to WP-SNAP! on the index page of the default theme (before the loop), switch themes for a second and see if the default theme works. It should. That will tell us definitively that the problem is with the theme you’re using, not the plugin. (Although, I’d love to know what the incompatibility is still — if I can prevent it, I will.)

  #239Nathan Olsen

  December 3rd, 2007 at 11:00 pm

• 0.81 did the trick. Thanks.

  #240Shane

  December 5th, 2007 at 3:40 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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