[wp-hackers] Is this a plugin, or just me not understanding API

[David Clark]

> Hi,
> A few things are not too clear.
> Is the basic question here about what makes a plugin a plugin?
> Also a few other questions:
>> If you click on a cat you get the list of  posts of that cat in the
>> left div, as in http://www.richardsnotes.org/archive.php?cat=10 (and, 
>> I
>> know, putting in permalink momencature  is the next step). I could you
>> see a way to have wp_list_cats generate that link, even  with $file
>> defined. I ended up cloning wp_list_cats and list_cats  (the only
>> change to wp_list_cats is what it calls.
>>
>> is this a kludge? is there a better way?
>>
> Is what a kludge? What problem exactly are you referring to here?
Since it didn't want the HREFs that are normally generated by list_cats 
(ie cat permalink)  but instead go to archive.php?cat=CATID, so I mode 
a copy of list_cats(). is archive.php?cat=CATID able to be passed to 
list_cats() a better way?
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> dc