Top Level Categories Plugin 1.0

June 20, 2007 Tagged: toplevelcategories

There’s a new version of the Top Level Categories plugin. The changes aren’t huge, but they do fix all known issues, including:

Will now work correctly with the /%category%/%postname% and %postname% permalink structures (this was the top request).
No longer need to manually update the permalink structure on install or uninstall.
Fixed incompatibility with some installations of the K2 theme.

If the previous version works well for you, then there is no need to upgrade.

Download

Top Level Categories v1.0 (ZIP file).

Let me know if you encounter any new bugs or issues.

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stereophone 1 year ago 1 point
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sorry i have to say this, but i have still the a 404 error if i went to category page 2 with the permalink structure /%category%/%postname%/

i have deaktivate the old plugin. upload the new, aktivate it, update the permalink structure and still receiving this error like in the old version

http://stereophone.de/

stereophone 1 year ago 1 point
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...ok. maybe the new plugin works, but... i realized that the old plugin is still aktiv. even if i deaktivat it, the change is still aktiv! now i'll check my datebase and remove it completely from my system, so i can give it a new try. and sorry for my bad english :)

http://stereophone.de/

comstar 1 year ago 1 point
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...still the same errors like in version 01. permalink structure /%postname%/ does not work. i get a 404 when i klick on a category.

/%category%/%postname%/ does not work. getting a 404 when i want to move from category overview to the second page.

so for me, nothing changes.

Fortes 1 year ago 1 point
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@comstar: I'd love to get more details, because it works fine on my tests. Does it work for any category links at all, does it work for the pages or RSS feeds?

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User 1 year ago 1 point
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Hi,

your plugin is exactly what I'm looking for. Sadly it doesn't work with the Category Order plugin (http://www.coppit.org/code/).

Mike Steinbaugh 1 year ago 1 point
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Regarding:

stereophone
sorry i have to say this, but i have still the a 404 error if i went to category page 2 with the permalink structure /%category%/%postname%/

i have deaktivate the old plugin. upload the new, aktivate it, update the permalink structure and still receiving this error like in the old version

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I have the same problem. The plugin glitches on page 2 of the category-based archives.

http://steinbaugh.com/

Andy 1 year ago 1 point
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Plugin is working as advertised but I'm running across a bug where subcategory pages $cat variable is showing as the parent category's $cat.

I can sidestep around this by making template pages for each subcategory and hand coding the proper $cat var , but I'm hoping there is an easy fix for this bug.

http://andrewberg.com

Charbax 1 year ago 1 point
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Thanks for fixing this, it now works better for me than version 0.1, I prefer much the /%category%/%postname%/ permalink structure then the /%category%/%year%/%postname%/

but still I have one little problem with the wp-pagenavi plugin: http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-pagen...

The kind of problem that I have is for blog-url/category/page/pagenumber/ - It's not a 404 error, it's simply the pagenavi plugin which doesn't recognize we are on a specific page number but instead thinks we always are on the first page of the category that we are browsing.

You can see this problem at this blog I am working on at http://techvideoblog.com/pmp/ if you use the pagenavi.

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Mark B 1 year ago 1 point
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I'm tryning the 1.0 plugin under Wordpress 2.2. The plugin works fine for top-level categories, and it works fine for permalinks for individual posts. But for subcategory pages I'm getting a 404 error. if I disable the plugin the subcategory pages display just fine.

with plugin:
- mydomain/cat/ - works
- mydomain/cat/subcat/post/ - works
- mydomain/cat/subcat/ - doesn't work

without plugin:
- mydomain/category/cat/ - works
- mydomain/category/cat/subcat/post/ - works
- mydomain/category/cat/subcat/ - works

Steve 1 year ago 1 point
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Hi, thanks for this plugin, I'd love to get it working ;)
My experience (WP 2.2.2):

#1. permalinks as /%postname%/ - doesn't work at all

#2. permalinks as /%category%/%postname%/ - mostly works but breaks category archive pages.

#3. permalinks as /%year%/%postname%/ - works as advertised.

I'd really like to have my permalinks as in #2 if it can be made to work. Happy to give more info if you need it.

http://stevenpoole.net

Fortes 1 year ago 1 point
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Hi Steve (and others),

Unfortunately, I don't quite know how to make #1 and #2 work right now, it's not clear what the right way to do this in WordPress is (due to the ambiguity brought about by similar category and permalink URLs). If I can find a way to fix it in the next version, I will. Until then, I have no solution :(

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Kev 1 year ago 1 point
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I recently came across this plugin and installed it. It works great for me, as long as I stay on the first page.

domain.com/catname/page/2 does not work and gives me a 404.

Same goes for domain.com/catname/subcatname/
while domain.com/subcatname/ works.

Any thoughts on how we could fix that?

Jim Amos 1 year ago 1 point
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Great work Filipe. I'm using this on several WP sites, should be included into WP core IMO. Thanks for taking the time.

Erik 1 year ago 1 point
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I also cannot get the plugin to work on any category pages except for the (literal) top category. As mentioned above,
domain.com/categoryname works, but domain.com/categoryname/subcategoryname does not. Any ideas on what can be done to get it to work for this example?

blaze 1 year ago 1 point
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im having the same problem as erik, main cats work, subcats dont.

www.domain.com/catname/ = works
www.domain.com/catname/subcatname/ = does not work
www.domain.com/subcatname = works

some help with this would be great, other than that, this is an awesome plugin!!

Robert 12 months ago 1 point
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THANK YOU! I've been searching google for a way to do this and your plugin fixes it perfectly!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!! This helps me out a lot since I hated having "category/" in front of all categories. Works out nicely now.

Thanks again,
Robert
Viccore Media

http://www.viccore.com

Aaron 11 months ago 1 point
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Any plans to update this for 2.3?

kReEsTaL 11 months ago 1 point
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Just to say I had the same problem as many folks here, namely the 404 error page. Ezio Tuveri gave the perfect solution to fix it! Please refer to his comment if you're lost, and respect the case in the solution he gives (Permalink: /%category%/%postname% -- Category base: /category WITHOUT %!)

Thanks Filipe for the great plugin! :)

http://www.aenemya.com

Jas 10 months ago 1 point
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Ezio, any solution for /%category%/%postname%.htm without the .htm?

Oneida 10 months ago 1 point
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Terrific little plugin! Thanks!

Mariano 10 months ago 1 point
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I need to use this plugin in wordpressMU, is this possible? If not, can you make it so? thx

Ben 9 months ago 1 point
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Another yes please to update it so the sub-categories will work in 2.3 :)

Monika 9 months ago 1 point
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Hi
I've tried to use your plugin for a new blog.

Pagination doesn't work, plugin head meta can't find cats and so it doesn't show head meta description if you would like to use "category description".

I know WP and the url slug /category/ are the best friends for ever.;)

Thanks a lot for your work. For your time and knowledge, but WP is more strongheaded than we all - ;)

kindly regards
Monika

http://www.webdesign-in.de/

arman 8 months ago 1 point
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I don't know with the other, but i didn't use pagination. So far it works correctly on my 2.3.1 installation.

Thanks dude!

http://armanadhitama.web.id

David 8 months ago 1 point
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It works fine for me, but would it possible to use it for tags as well? I use /postid/postname/ for posts so there wouldn't be any clash.

Ash Haque 8 months ago 1 point
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Unfortunately it's not working for me, using the %postname% permalink structure, and all the categories just send me to 404 pages :-(

http://www.ashhaque.com/

Andrew 8 months ago 1 point
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Seems to work ok, but there is a bug where it isn't able to go back to pages after page 2. It just list "previous posts" and keeps sending you to "www.yoursite.com/category/page/2". Is there something I have configured wrong?

http://www.amtstudios.com

Andrew 8 months ago 1 point
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Ah, nevermind I fixed it.

http://www.amtstudios.com

Jens 7 months ago 1 point
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Terrific little plugin! Thanks!

Fortes

Top Level Categories Plugin 1.0

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