FV Top Level Categories Changelog
1.3
- for for flushing of rewrite rules on plugin activation in WP 3.3
1.2
- fix for WP 3.3
- fix for /%categor%/%post-name% permalink structure
1.1.3
- fix for deeper nested pages
1.1.2
- fix for /category/child-category redirecting to /child-category page
1.1.1
- fix for deeper nested categories
1.1
- fix for WP 3.1
1.0.1
- original version
42 comments on “FV Top Level Categories Changelog”
01
This works with 3.1! I used a custom permalink structure of /%category%/
Subcategories seem to work well to.
02
The sky has fallen! Thank you so much for this quick fix. I use a multisite installation and this is a nightmare. For the most part this new plugin seems to have fixed the issue but %category%/%postname% is still a HUGE issue. Looking forward to this being resolved.
Thanx again.
PS. Steps I used to fix:
1. sitewide deactivate top level categories
2. change each sites permalinks to default
3. network activate FV top level categories
4. change each sites permalinks to month/date
03
Hello Beachbum,
you don’t have to change the permalinks back and forth when doing this.
If you have structure like /month/day/post-name and you deactivate the original plugin, only the category links change (/category/ in front of each category URL). Then you activate our plugin, and the category links are back to what it was before.
Thanks,
Martin
04
Thanx Martin
After a few hours sleep I took a stab at it again on a dev site with /%category%/ and it does work
So I tried /%category%/%postname%/ and that also seems to work now.
Is this just a fluke, or maybe because It was a fresh install? Or do I need to go backto sleep?
05
Excellent! Thank you for doing this. This plugin is used in all of my installs. Happy clients now!
06
Hello Beachbum,
I tested this plugin with /%category%/%postname%/ and it was working fine. But I suggest that you check all the categories to see if it works.
Thanks,
Martin
07
All seems to be good. Thank you again for rescue.
Cheers
08
Hi,
I was using the older plugin and have installed this new one on my syndication. One remark I have is that all the blogs I syndicate are categorized under “all” (how I renamed “Uncategorized” or whatever the default category is) as well as under a child category that is a child of “all”, like “style”, “shops”, etc. The previous plugin used to create my categories as just “style”, “shops”, etc, but this new plugin lists the parent and the child like so “all/style”. I’d rather it could use only the child. Is that possible with the current beta or could it be in the next release ?
Thank you for stepping up to the plate so quickly with this new udpated version of the plugin.
09
Thank you. I am tickled to find this replacement plugin. I had been discouraged for a long while that the old plugin had not been updated and am so pleased that (according to early indications) this replacement works fine.
Thank you very much.
10
[...] 3.1. If you are using the Top Level Categories plugin, disable and remove it, and install the FV Top Level Categories plugin which does the same exact thing and created specially for the WordPress 3.1 update. Some [...]
11
Hello Lili,
I checked out your issue with using /style category links instread of /all/style.
That’s another change in WordPress core. In version 3.0 without Top Level Categories, when you entered a link like /category/style, is displayed the same content as /category/all/style, but it was working. In WordPress 3.1, this address gets automatically redirected to /category/all/style. So when you use our plugin, it’s the same – /style get’s redirected to /all/style.
A quick and dirty fix would be this one, which tells WordPress, that if it tries to do a redirection to the proper category URL for /style category, which is a child category of /all and it should be /all/style, then it won’t do the redirection. But if you have canonical URL in your header, it will reveal the /all/style URL anyway.
function tweak_redirect_canonical( $url ) {
if( $url == 'http://example.com/all/style' ) return false;
return $url;
}
add_filter( 'redirect_canonical', 'tweak_redirect_canonical' );
Please note that this might be dangerous unless you are sure what you are doing, so take it as just a suggestion. I’m not sure how and if to solve that with our plugin yet.
Thanks,
Martin
12
In you have a category /fruit/apple and also a page /computers/apple, opening /fruit/apple category will bring up the /computers/apple page instead………
That is how the original top level categories worked….
If you do make a “fix” for that, can you please include this functionality as one of the options. I actually appreciate this functionality and would hate to lose it is TLC never updates, and I am using yours.
That said, thank you so so so so so so so much for your fix!!!
13
Hello R.J.,
keeping the same behavior as the original Top Level Categories plugin was our primary goal. So if we fix this, we will make it as an compatibility option.
Thanks,
Martin
14
So, on the sites that I used top level categories (and now your plugin) I never used /%postname%/… and then I saw that it doesn’t work for sites that use that permalink structure.
Are you going to try to work to rectify that issue?
Thank you…
15
i had a problem with this. for example, i had a self hosted blog (wordpress.org) with a PAGE titled mydomain.com/music and also a CATEGORY which is mydomain.com/pop/music, for example. and when i click the latter it takes me TO the page ( first url ) as opposed to the POST of the category i need it to take me to. that’s the only problem. any way to fix that ?
16
Hello David,
check out our latest beta version, this has been fixed:
FV Top Level Categories 1.1.2
We are currently waiting for approval to be able to publish the stable version on WordPress.org.
Thanks,
Martin
17
thank you so so so so much :) tried it and it’s working perfectly :D you’re the best Martin!!
18
Thank you SOOOOO much – this fixed my 3.1 issues like magic!
19
Glad to see someone picking up the slack. I still find it hard to believe that we need a third party plugin to accomplish this, after all these years. But anyway…
Just trying out your plugin on a client site that’s under development and I have a couple of issues.
It seems category indexes only work for the first level category. Meaning, you can’t have nested categories. The index for my Articles category works, but a child category of it does not. Same goes for grandchildren.
The second issue is with pagination on the top level category index – it simply isn’t working. Page 2 is blank, while there are enough posts to fill 2 pages.
If I disable your plugin, everything works as it should. Any suggestions?
20
Hello Matt,
this must be a conflict with some other plugin, as the child categories work.
What’s worrying me more, is that your pagination of top level category is also not working.
We are using both paging and child categories on many sites without any issues.
Please let us know what plugins and which version of FV Top Level Categories plugin are you using.
Thanks,
Martin
21
thanks a lot. without the fix it would have been a great problem. thanks once again
22
Hi Matt, I’m considering trying your plugin and was wondering if you could give me some opinion on the following…
I’m building a site which might produce a lot of posts, let’s say 750+ per year, plus perhaps a cpl hundred pages. At least. The posts represent a news/magazine “what’s on guide”, ie. they’re date-sensitive as opposed to being a timeless information resource – so my approach to seo is somewhat different than if I were building an information exchange / brochure type site and keyword stuffing.
Load times will be critical. After much deliberation, I’m edging towards the structure: /%year%%monthnum%%day%/%postname%/ which produces an 8-digit datestamp followed by post name. This, to me, makes more sense than /YYYY/MM/DD/post-name/ – fewer ‘divisions’ in the URL, and without the pseudo directory structure, plus the numerical element is handy for Google News etc.
Losing the category slug has semantic benefits: ie. mysite.com/music/ as opposed to mysite.com/category/music, but my concern is not to create verbose redirection rules – speed is my focus.
So my question is: how does your plugin handle the redirection? Are many additional rules required, and what kind of performance hit might I expect in my scenario?
23
Hello aljuk,
check out FAQ for FV Top Level Categories to see how we handle the redirections.
Thanks,
Martin
24
Hi Martin,
Why has the Category URLs option been this ‘lame excuse’, for all these years? Virtually *nobody* who would like to use category-structuring wants the “dead”, nonsensical, non-category inserted.
WordPress takes sustained, consistent flak on this issue. They would dispense with it, if they could. More worrisone yet, there should be a decent little herd of plugins for those who want category URLs, swiping each other’s better code & ideas and evolving. But there isn’t.
Now – sure enough – Top Level Categories croaks, vindicating my long-time wariness. It so happens that a skilled party was dependent on it, they dropped everything when TLC (and their website(s)) died, and made a crash project of coding a fix.
I would really like to use a category structured URL, but I need to resolve the weirdness that cloaks this topic.
Is it the obvious complication of multiple inheritance in WP categories? That an article on quake-damaged Japanese nuclear reactors will be in at least 3 different categories, at different levels in each – and that can go to a half dozen or more, no problem?
So, where does *this* article go/belong, for URL purposes? Is that the underlying hang-up with Category URLs? Or is it something else/further?
Thanks, and congratulations!
Ted
25
[...] başladım. Araştırmalarım beni FV Top Level Category adındaki eklentiye götürdü Alec Kinnear tarafından yazılan bu eklenti sorunsuz çalışıyor, test ettim onayladım. Hatta kısa zaman [...]
26
Hi Everyone,
We are still working out some bugs with occasional incorrect pages showing up. If anyone has reproducible bugs, please let us know as we’ll be doing a round of work on FV Top Level Categories on Monday and Tuesday.
Thanks!
27
thanks man, fixed my problem, finally every body can see my categories.
28
Hello Everyone,
here’s new beta version, before we release it as a stable version on WordPress.org, so if you are interested, you can test it: http://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-top-level-cats-1.1.3beta.zip
If fixes issues which occurred when using complicated page structure.
Little update to the /%category%/%postname%/ structure compatibility: works only for the 1st level categories, the second level won’t work. The plugin works best with classic structures like /year/month/postname
Thanks,
Martin
29
THANK YOU so much Martin!
It took me a while to figure out why my site was broken. I don’t want to ask too much, but perhaps you can work together with Filippe Fortes to better publicize the information.
Anyways I’m very grateful for this awesome, and free, fix.
-JP
30
Hi,
Pre-WP 3.1, our link structure for portfolios was “…/category/portfolio/…”.
This worked fine and where we were helping people on forums, we would provide links to our solutions.
After upgrading to WP 301 all of our old incoming links were broken.
We have upgraded to WP 3.1.1 and have FV Top Level Categories 1.1.3 installed. New links are “…/portfolio/…” and work fine.
Is there any way of getting the old links to work (the ones with category in the URL)?
Thanks,
Niall
31
Is there any plans for a workaround for websites that use the %postname% slug only? I really hate having the month and year before the post title in the url and would love to not have to use it if possible.
32
Hello Robert,
as stated in the above article, this plugin works with a structure like that.
However, you might have some issues with child categories when using a structure like that.
It’s in FAQ: http://foliovision.com/seo-tools/wordpress/plugins/fv-top-level-categories/faq
And also here: http://foliovision.com/seo-tools/wordpress/plugins/fv-top-level-categories#comment-294234
So it’s more experimental. Test carefully. I added this note to plugin readme now.
Thanks,
Martin
33
My pagnation doesn’t work with this plugin. Suggestions?
34
Hello Vicky,
please provide some examples of what these paged URLs look like and your permalink structure – something like this:
Category URLs: example.com/category-name/page/2
Permalink structure: /year/month/post-name
Thanks,
Martin
35
I tried implementing a custom post type, but with this plugin enabled I get a 404 whenever I try to visit a post of that type, presumably because it’s looking for a category instead when there’s no category by that name.
E.g. site.com/post-type/post
With FV TLC = 404
Without FV TLC = the post
36
Is there any way to get your awesome plugin to work on secondary categories? We are trying to keep our URL’s the exact same as an expression engine site and the /category/ slug breaks everything. I love your plugin, but I need that second level.
We have secondary slugs that aren’t unique, but primary/secondary are unique and there are no page conflicts.
How does WordPress recognize the URL? if I knew where, perhaps I could help figure out how to enhance your plugin.
Thanks
37
With /%category%/%postname% permalinks when i click on posts i get error not found,i switched to /%category%/%postname%.html and now all works.
38
Hello Hugh,
we wrote this plugin more like a replacement of existing Top Level Categories in new WordPress versions, with all of its flaws. We haven’t checked compatibility with custom post types yet.
If you have any ideas about how to implement it, let us know.
Hello Don Sceifers,
if your permalink structure is /category/postname, you might have some issues with second level categories, otherwise it should work.
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We will probably try a different approach to creating our rewrite rules in next version. If we do that, there will be a beta version available for you to test as it will might get tricky.
Thanks,
Martin
39
Hey guys,
For the address of the feeds, should “category” still be present?
For example, to access my category feeds, you have to go to “http://manadeprived.com/category/crazy-talk/feed/”.
Just making sure this is expected behavior.
Thanks,
Kar
40
Hello Kar Yung Tom,
we try to replicate behavior of the original Top Level Categories which is not working in new WordPress.
I checked this on our sites and you should not get /category/ in the category feeds. Maybe it’s your permalink structure or other plugins you are using.
Thanks,
Martin
41
I updated to v 1.1.3 and found that the category is broken. I can only go to ../article/p1/ but when go to p2 (page 2) it shift to about page.That’s sad, it’s happen to all category.
My structure is /%category%/%postname%/
42
Hello all,
we are closing this thread as we opened our new Support forum!.
Hi ne,
please try the fix posted here in the support forum:
http://foliovision.com/support/fv-top-level-categories/bug-reports/category-paged-archives
Thanks,
Martin