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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• Only problem I noticed is if the fancy url name contains any of the same letters in succession as the category, the url gets truncated and is 404. Seems to work smoothly otherwise.

  #241Shane

  December 5th, 2007 at 4:03 pm

• I think that a paging system would be great too. Currently I have a DVD review site, which I was using the plug-in for, but the number of reviews have grown exponentially and now I have the same problem with too many posts for one page to load correctly.

  #242Marc

  December 18th, 2007 at 1:19 pm

• I love this handy tool! (Great job!!!)

  Question: Is it possible to create a separate page with the listings instead of it linking directly to each category?

  Example: I create a separate “page” for “Articles Index” where your plugin call for all content/articles in each category.

  [For my site, I’d rather people click a separate page where they’ll find an alphabetical directory of all posts - sort of like the “archives” but alphabetically and not by date.

  Thanks and HAPPY HOLIDYAS!

  #243Kaitlyn

  December 23rd, 2007 at 10:26 pm

• I agree — What a great plugin! Two suggestions, though, one of which I just pulled an all-niter sussing out…

  Automatically alphabetize all posts by last name / 2nd word (see solution below)
  *Not* split category into 2 or more pages (This I still need assistance with)

  Here’s my hack solution to #1 above, moving $exclude[1] and $exclude[2] down in the code in order to redefine $exclude[0] from a query loop….

  $all_posts = $wpdb->get_results($request);

  // CREATE REPLACEMENT FOR get_option('key_snap_exclude') ON THE FLY
  // ALPHABETIZE ALL LISTINGS BY 2ND WORD (LAST NAME)

  $Checkit = '';

  for ($i=0; $i post_title);

  $Checkit .= $post_title_array[$i][0];

  if(($i+1)post_title));
  }

  It sure ain’t pretty, but meets my needs for saving time on adding to “Ignore During Alphabetizing” each time a new name is added. (See it in action here)

  Any chance of a “Christmas Miracle” for #2?

  Either way, thanks for all your work on this!!

  #244Zoinks! Graphics

  December 24th, 2007 at 6:39 am

• Kaitlyn — Yes, you can have the results appear on a Page. Just call the plugin with a category number, as explained in the instructions above, on a Page template.

  Zoinks! — Since everyone has been asking for it, I will be making a paging system for the plugin. It isn’t a trivial task — looking at other plugins with paging functions, it’s pretty complicated. I haven’t looked into why it’s so complicated, just that all of the solutions I’ve looked at use a lot of code.

  Thanks for sharing your code, perhaps someone else will find it useful. It sounds me like what you’d like to see is an “Ignore the first __ words during alphabetization” option. I’ll keep that in mind.

  #245Nathan Olsen

  December 24th, 2007 at 10:56 am

• Hi Nathan and all people here.

  This is very helpfull plugin. Thank you very much.
  I went through all comments and one guy mentioned about same feature which I’m thinking so I quote it here:

  “Is there a way to not have the plugin list titles on first load? I only want the titles to list when the user has clicked on a letter. Currently when the page first loads it lists titles beginning with the letter “A”.”

  I wish I could see thise feature.

  But more interesting (and this is the best for me) is there a way to have on “first load” list of recent articles from particular category? Then when I click on particular letter I’ll get alphabetical list of articles.

  Summarize:
  - on first load - recent articles
  - on letter click - alphabetical list of articles

  Thank you in advance.

  #246absolon

  January 1st, 2008 at 6:14 pm

• Hi, just to say this is a great plugin. I’d like to add my vote to what Absolon has suggested about having the ‘first load’ list recent articles from category ‘x’ and then when you click a particular letter you get the alphabetical list. That’d be very cool, and mean I could implement it more widely on the website I’m currently building.

  Thanks alot for all your hard work!

  #247edd

  January 3rd, 2008 at 11:05 am

• I agree with the above two commenter’s, this is a big must have I feel.

  #248Tom

  January 4th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

• For those that wanted a paging system, I just got this to work with another website of mine that does not use wp-snap. It uses a home grown MYSQL database application. What I am going to try to do is get this to work inside wp-snap for wordpress now.

  It will take a little while, but hopefully it works. I will document what I do and let everyone who wants to know how when it is complete.

  Nathan, or anyone else for that matter, please let us know if this is something you are actively working on, so people don’t waste time on this.

  Thanks. :)

  -Marc

  #249Marc

  January 27th, 2008 at 1:59 pm

• Marc — I have not done any work on a paging system at this time. If you wish to tackle that problem and develop a paging system for WP-SNAP!, you are welcome to. If your solution works well, I would be happy to integrate it into the plugin and give you credit for the code. That’s what open source software is all about, right?

  If you’ll notice, this plugin has been in development since March of 2006. Strangely, it has only been in the last few months that anyone has expressed interest in a paging system. It obviously needs to happen — and I’ll get to it eventually — but I work on this plugin when I have breaks in my schedule, which hasn’t happened recently.

  FYI — Next on my list of things to do is to add the ability to initially show either All/None/Recent posts when the plugin first loads. After that, I plan to tackle the paging system. Again, if someone wishes to speed up the process and develop the code for these features themselves, more power to you. I look forward to your results!

  #250Nathan Olsen

  January 27th, 2008 at 5:37 pm

• Nathan,

  Not as easy as I hoped it would be, well at least after first look. I will keep hacking at it but who knows.

  I am also writing to let you know I made a donation… Keep up the good work.

  -Marc

  #251Marc

  January 28th, 2008 at 11:52 am

• This plugin prevents other ways of searching categories and does not work on a static page. If I have the category links listed and some one clicks on it, it automatically goes to the “a” titled posts. If I deactivate the plugin it works correctly

  #252samara

  February 5th, 2008 at 7:38 pm

• Samura — You’ve packed a lot of information into two short sentences. I’m not even sure I understand what the issue is that you are encountering. More information would be lovely. Thanks.

  #253Nathan Olsen

  February 6th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

• Sorry for the mouth full…lol.

  Ok I have a static page enabled and when you click on one of the letters it does nothing.

  If your on a post page or category page and click on a link it only goes to all post starting with the letter “a”.

  If I disable the static page then the plugin works correctly.

  #254samara

  February 8th, 2008 at 9:27 pm

• Oh yeah and if you use the wp_list_category tag along with the plugin the links displayed for the categories do not work

  #255samara

  February 8th, 2008 at 9:29 pm

• Samara — Thank you for the additional information. I just tested WP-SNAP! again on a Page and it loaded fine. I tried not loading any category, specifying one particular category and loading all categories — the plugin worked like a charm. Perhaps you are encountering a conflict with another plugin or a particular Template Tag?

  With regards to the issue with wp_list_categories, I can confirm that this is a problem. I don’t have a solution yet. I’ll look into it.

  #256Nathan Olsen

  February 13th, 2008 at 11:24 pm

• So it doesn’t give you any issues when using a “static” page?

  #257samara

  February 14th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

• Samara — If you are referring to a Static Front Page, then no, the plugin will not work on that. WP-SNAP! depends on the Wordpress Loop and the Loop does not work on a Static Front Page. Hence, it’s “static.”

  #258Nathan Olsen

  February 14th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

• Ok. When I have the static page enabled even if I use the code on the categories page only it still doesn’t work. Thanks anyway. It’s a great plugin it just doesn’t work for what I’m trying to accomplish.

  #259samara

  February 14th, 2008 at 8:47 pm

• Is there a hook for the letter group currently displayed? I’d like to display it in addition to the complete alphabet list.

  #260Gene Hornot

  February 18th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

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