Plugin Update: Assign Categories to Pages – version 1.2

Jie September 3, 2010 at 9:08 am

hi, Please help me, I new to wordpress… I’ve downloaded and activated your plugin but some how the option for “auto-insertion of Posts on the Pages which belong to the same category” feature does not seemed to be working even after I’ve checked the option….

Amit Verma September 3, 2010 at 2:12 pm

Have you mapped the page to the category which you are checking?

Toscano September 15, 2010 at 7:57 pm

Hi, I think this plugin is great, but i don’t know how to show pages and post of chechek in the same category, I have this (before I’ve activated the “Show the Pages on Category pages” preference), but this only shows posts, not pages on the same category:

have_posts()) : $featured_query->the_post();
$do_not_duplicate[] = $post->ID ?>

<div id="post-” >
<a href="” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to “>

Amit Verma September 16, 2010 at 9:10 pm

change post type before running the query.

$query->set( ‘post_type’, array( ‘post’, ‘page’ ) );

Toscano September 16, 2010 at 10:43 pm

that’s works, thanks a lot!!

NikC September 20, 2010 at 9:42 pm

Hi

I Installed the pluging and did some testing with it, it worked as the page I wanted was created, but I have since removed the plugin but the page for the categories that was auto generated is still there, any idea who to get rid of this page as it just gives me a 404 ?

Many Thanks

Nik

Amit Verma September 21, 2010 at 10:51 pm

This plugin doesn’t create any page. If you are opening a category page, you can check for permanent link structure.

DG September 22, 2010 at 1:03 am

Hi Amit,
I’m working on my personal site: diegograglia.net/site/
I downloaded your plugin because I’m using pages on the Nav Bar, but I can’t get some of those pages to show on the featured slideshow. The slideshow works by assigning a category to it, that’s why I thought your plugin would help.
I understand I have to edit the page.php but I don’t really see what it is that I have to do. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks a lot!
DG

Amit Verma September 23, 2010 at 9:24 pm

what are these slideshows? Are these posts or are you using custom post types?

DG September 24, 2010 at 3:19 am

Hi Amit, thanks for your reply. The slideshow is part of the theme and it’s configured through a Featured Category. The stories featured there are posts, and I couldn’t manage to include pages there.
In the end I found a solution for what I was looking for through a different method. I created posts assigning one each to the Categories on the nav bar, so they basically look like pages, and I could still feature them on the Slides.
Best,
DG

Peter October 12, 2010 at 1:25 am

Hi, Great plugin. Can you tell me how to show full post content on pages using your plugin? It only shows up in a list now.

See: http://www.petervanwoerden.nl/wordpress/?page_id=537

Thanks,

Peter

Amit Verma October 12, 2010 at 10:38 pm

For this, you will have to customize your Page template. Take a look at http://amit.me/assign-categories-to-pages-in-wordpress/545#template-changes

Cesar November 27, 2010 at 2:32 am

Dear Amit:

This plugin is great. I was wondering if a categories Widget is available for this plugin.

I would like to see, in the sidebar of each page, just the subcategories of the category associated. Is that possible?

Thanks,

César

Amit Verma November 29, 2010 at 1:15 pm

It is very much possible. I will post the code in a day or two.

Amit Verma December 3, 2010 at 1:57 am

Put following code in sidebar. It will display the sub-categories of the categories which are directly applied to the current page. It will not show the empty categories.

[php]
<?php
global $post;

$categories=get_the_category($post->ID);
if(count($categories)>0){
$i=1;
foreach((get_the_category($post->ID)) as $category) {
if($i==count($categories))
$includeCat.=$category->cat_ID;
else
$includeCat.=$category->cat_ID.’, ‘;
$i+=1;
}
?>

<ul><?php wp_list_categories(‘title_li=&child_of=’.$includeCat.’&show_count=0′); ?></ul>
<?php } ?>
[/php]

You can consider using http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/php-code-widget/ to put PHP code in sidebar.

cesar December 7, 2010 at 4:54 am

Thank you very very much for this help Amit. I will try this tomorrow and keep you updated.

I think this plugin is very important. The only way to distribute contents over pages.

Kind Regards,

César

Amit Verma December 7, 2010 at 9:44 am

I am glad you find it useful.

Marlyse Comte December 15, 2010 at 1:03 am

Great plugin – saves me the gray hair I was just about going to get, trying to do it myself

How can I display the assigned categories on the pages => admin page?

I can chose the category from the popup and it filters just fine – but it would be nice if it gets listed just as in the posts => admin page. Obviously the intention was there to show them as the header contains the column name for it.

Thanks!

Marlyse Comte December 15, 2010 at 10:16 pm

Great plugin and saved me from getting gray hair as I was just about to try and write something the like!

Especially useful that it allows for filtering on the PAGES overview page. One problem though, it does not list the categories in the column. The header shows, but not the rows. The categories are obviously assigned as I can filter via popup.

Can you fix that?

Amit December 31, 2010 at 6:35 pm

Sorry for the late reply. Could you please put some more light on the problem with example links?

Marlyse Comte January 2, 2011 at 2:41 am

Hope this screenshot helps clarifying the problem:
http://cl.ly/2N0U1p0B2S0R1I1C2X23/category-not-showing.jpg

Amit Verma January 3, 2011 at 9:37 pm

Got your point.

I will try and fix that.

Amit Verma January 25, 2011 at 11:45 pm

I have done this and included in next update. Thanks for pointing it.

pat January 23, 2011 at 10:40 pm

I tried the following code that you posted above but it errors out on the following line:
$includeCat.=$category->cat_ID.’, ‘; because of the comma. Is there a fix for that?

[php]
<?php
global $post;

$categories=get_the_category($post->ID);
if(count($categories)>0){
$i=1;
foreach((get_the_category($post->ID)) as $category) {
if($i==count($categories))
$includeCat.=$category->cat_ID;
else
$includeCat.=$category->cat_ID.’, ‘;
$i+=1;
}
?>

<ul><?php wp_list_categories(‘title_li=&child_of=’.$includeCat.’&show_count=0′); ?></ul>
<?php } ?>
[/php]

Amit January 24, 2011 at 3:36 pm

It was because of faulty single quote. Try using code given below.

[php]
<?php
global $post;

$categories=get_the_category($post->ID);
if(count($categories)>0){
$i=1;
foreach((get_the_category($post->ID)) as $category) {
if($i==count($categories))
$includeCat.=$category->cat_ID;
else
$includeCat.=$category->cat_ID.’, ‘;
$i+=1;
}
?>

<ul><?php wp_list_categories(‘title_li=&child_of=’.$includeCat.’&show_count=0′); ?></ul>
<?php } ?>
[/php]

Sandor Kiss February 5, 2011 at 5:47 pm

I would like to show full posts on the pages with category. Now I can see only the clickable titles.
I know, there is some tweeking in the template files, and sure, You can give me the solution here, but would you be kind to instruct me, where to put the given lines?
I have no clue, I am not a php guy.
Thanks

Sandor

Amit Verma February 5, 2011 at 6:02 pm

Please take a look at http://amit.me/assign-categories-to-pages-in-wordpress/545#template-changes.

This plugin has been moved to http://wordpressable.me/plugins/map-categories-to-pages. Please leave your comment at Wordpressable ME!!!