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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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• Hi Nathan,

  Thank you very much for such a great plugin! It does almost everything I was hoping for!

  The only problem I have is how this plugin deals with other special characters. Some titles of my posts start with Chinese characters and they get sorted kind of randomly. It’s probably not easy to really sort them but I wonder whether it’s easy to at least put them into a separate category (like under #). I did some test and I found out the Chinese characters are “translated” into some letters and they are sorted according to these letters. For example, “七” becomes “且 and is under A, “色” becomes “色”€ and is under E. Is it possible to have a simple option to only sort 123ABC etc and put all the others that start with ä, è etc to a separate category? ‰

  Thanks!

  #281fp

  March 26th, 2008 at 3:27 pm

• fp —

  As you already know, right now there is no support for international characters. This will be remedied eventually. Thanks for the heads up!

  #282Nathan Olsen

  March 31st, 2008 at 9:15 pm

• Hi Everyone — As you can see, I released a new version of the plugin a couple of days ago. I forgot to update the information in the readme, but documentation of the new feature I introduced can now be found on this page. I have added the ability to have WP-SNAP! display all, none or recent posts when it firsts loads (ie, no letter is selected). Instructions are above. If it’s unclear, let me know.

  #283Nathan Olsen

  April 4th, 2008 at 5:56 pm

• I just played with this on my tag.php template, and apparently the plugin doesn’t work well with tags in wordpress 2.5.

  I guess it’s in charge of queries made on /tag/XXX pages of wordpress, and therefore it doesn’t display the entries tagged with a certain tag, but it resorts to either ALL, NONE or RECENT.

  Any way you can fix that, so that it closes the loop somehow or works just fine with tags…?

  #284James

  April 7th, 2008 at 3:13 pm

• James — You’re right, I’ve never given any consideration to tags. That should be fixed. It will be (eventually). Thanks for the suggestion!

  #285Nathan Olsen

  April 7th, 2008 at 4:15 pm

• hi nathan

  this plugin is very cool… i do have some questions and would appreciate your help.

  i have a list of restaurants all categorized by the type of food (asian, italian, etc). I can get the plugin to work so that when i click on italian, the a-z list comes up and you can click on the italian restaurants…. what i was hoping to was actually put your plug in on a page (the reviews page) and have a A-Z box similar to the one at the top of your page where the user can click B and have ALL the restaurants with a B pop up in alphabetical order… not just the ones in a specifc category….

  hope that is a specific enough request… again i appreciate any help you can offer

  #286seattlefoodster

  April 11th, 2008 at 1:14 pm

• seattlefoodster — It depends on your site structure. If you want your restaurants to show up at http://www.yoursite.com/reviews, then you should set-up a Page template for that and call WP-SNAP! on it. If it’s http://www.yoursite.com/category/reviews/, then set-up a category template for it (and make the food styles (italian, japanese, etc.) child categories of Reviews). Or just set it up on your index page, if that’s what you want. The plugin will work in any of those places.

  #287Nathan Olsen

  April 11th, 2008 at 3:27 pm

• I’ve finally gotten the plugin working — thank you, Nathan, for the ALL option! — and I thought I’d drop by and offer the solution to the problems I had.

  I had the A-Z index appearing on my home page as well as my category pages. However, clicking the links from the home page took me right back to the home page, without filtering the posts by letter. I finally realized that my custom theme’s home page template wasn’t using a normal loop; it used some specific queries to get a few certain posts.

  The plugin will work beautifully on your home page IF you have a regular loop.

  #288Stephanie

  May 1st, 2008 at 6:34 pm

• I’ve been using wp-snap happily for many months. Today I upgraded from WP v2.3.3 to v2.5.1
  Before doing so on my main site I did it on a development replica site. wp-snap seems to work there so I proceeded to do the same on the main site and what had worked moments earlier now does not. The rest of the site works, but not the page set to use wp=snap.
  Any experience like this before? I’ve disabled & re-enabled the plugin, no luck.

  #289Charles Hodgson

  May 2nd, 2008 at 10:14 am

• Stephanie — Thanks for the feedback. I’m glad the plugin is working well for you.

  Charles — WP-SNAP! does work with 2.5.1, so I don’t know what the issue is. It doesn’t yet work yet with tags, but it doesn’t sound like you’re using it that way. The best advice I can give is: Turn off all of your plugins, see if that works. If it does, turn them on one by and see what breaks things. If that doesn’t help, try rewriting your Wordpress Loop and see if a simple loop works. Again, if it does, then check your code for a problem. Good luck.

  #290Nathan Olsen

  May 2nd, 2008 at 10:24 am

• Hi, Nate. I hate to pester you, but I think I’ve found a bug. When I call WP-SNAP with recent posts showing on first load, clicking a letter just reloads the recent posts.

  Here’s my index.php call:
  if (function_exists('wp_snap')) { echo wp_snap(ALL, TRUE, '', RECENT); }

  and my category.php:
  if (function_exists('wp_snap')) { echo wp_snap('', TRUE, '', RECENT); }

  The recent posts persist on both of those pages. I’ve tried it with my custom theme and the WordPress default, and the same thing happens in both. I also tried changing the other options — category shown, child categories — but it still just shows the recent posts. If I call it with all the default options (echo wp_snap();) or with ALL on first load, it works perfectly in both themes.

  Permalinks are off for the blog, and WP-SNAP isn’t using pretty URLs.

  If there’s any more info I can provide, let me know.

  #291Stephanie

  May 4th, 2008 at 9:01 pm

• This is an excellent plug-in - huge thanks.

  Is there any way I can get the results displayed on a different page, i.e. I would like to be able to display the navigation on my home page but want the list of results to appear on seperate page?

  #292ryan

  May 9th, 2008 at 3:25 pm

• Stephanie — Thanks for the report, I’ll look into it. I’ve got another busy week ahead of me, so it may be a few days.

  Ryan — No, there isn’t.

  #293Nathan Olsen

  May 11th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

• Hi! Thanks for the cool plugin. It actually works quite well but I got some problems with the fancy url feature. I don’t know what’s wrong here.. is it possible that the fact that my blog is in a subfolder screws up the permalinks? Maybe you can take a look, would be cool. Thanks!

  #294Andy

  May 22nd, 2008 at 4:04 pm

• You might have already addressed this problem but there are so many comments I couldn’t find it. I’m using WP and trying to have this plug-in work on just a separate page I made where users can search and on the search results page. How can I do this? I tried pasting the in the html on the page I made, but it doesn’t work.

  #295Paul

  May 26th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

• Cool :D

  Thnx a lot bro …
  I’ll try tonight :D

  Keep good job

  #296ghprod

  May 28th, 2008 at 9:11 am

• Hi Nathan ..

  I want to make Lyrics CMS with WP and your plugin .. :)
  Btw how to make indexing the first letter category not post title .. so the hierarchy maybe like this …

  WP Snap > A, B , C, etc …
  ex..

  A > Artist Name (From category) > Content Lyrics (From Post content )

  Hehehhe .. maybe you can show me how to change your plugin to read first letter of cats .. :p

  i hope my question is clear enough :D
  Coz my english not to good ..

  Thnx :)

  Cheers . ..

  #297Ghprod

  May 30th, 2008 at 8:45 am

• Why does your plug-in divide the posts into a-m and n-z. I find this a very, very inconvenient form of alphabetization. How can I stop this division. Maybe I’m dumb, but I can’t find a way.

  #298Tom Mix

  May 30th, 2008 at 9:24 am

• Andy — It sounds like you are saying that your Wordpress installation is not in the root folder of your site, but in a subfolder. Is that correct? Off the top of my head, I can’t see why that would be a problem. I wrote (okay, mostly stole) the code for fancy urls so that the plugin first captures the current URL and then appends the fancy url to the end. So, in theory, it shouldn’t matter. But I’ll add it to the list of things I need to check on.

  Paul — I hadn’t thought of using the plugin on a search results page. Frankly, I’m not sure how it would. Are you foreseeing a search result that would pull up enough blog entries to warrant breaking them down alphabetically? Or would WP-SNAP! be used as an alternate way to search?

  Ghprod — I’m glad to hear that you like the plugin. Unfortunately, it’s not really designed to alphabetized categories. It’s a feature that’s been asked for before (not frequently), but I can’t imagine why one would have so many categories to begin with that they need to be alphabetized. I am going to work on making the plugin compatible with tags, as that makes some sense. Maybe once that’s finished, you’ll be able to use tags to achieve the site structure you need.

  Tom Mix — Well, considering the plugin does not default to the structure you’ve mentioned, it sounds like you’ve already changed the plugin’s options to display posts that way. Now you just need to undo it. :) There are two ways. The first is to change WP-SNAP!’s site-wide options through the administration options. If that is already configured, the problem may be in the options you are passing when you call WP-SNAP! on your Wordpress template. Read the directions above for further information on how this works.

  #299Nathan Olsen

  May 30th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

• Thnx 4 reply Nathan :D

  i’m waiting for your future of this plugin (indexing tag :p)

  Cheers …

  #300ghprod

  May 31st, 2008 at 11:39 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.

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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.