[wp-hackers] How can I filter on post count for categories?

[L'Autre Monde]

You are right, originally, I looked at the more fields plugin and it matched 
most of my needs but not all. When I started to developp this plugin, the 
more fields plugin wasn't providing a separate menu option I think. Also, I 
wanted to remove all the "unecessary" metas boxes from the editor so that it 
looks like a "ticket" editor more than a blog or whatever. Finally I wanted 
to provide directly customised front end template that includes the added 
metas for the tickets so that the user doesn't have to dig into the code to 
customise it if he doesn't want or know how to do it.

That's why I started from scratch. :)

Anyway, I appreciate your help!

Thanks!

Olivier

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Schinkel" <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>
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Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 1:20 AM
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] How can I filter on post count for categories?


> Sounds like the "More Fields" plugin would give you exactly what you want. 
> It uses the default post editor but add a menu option for each of your 
> custom post types, in your case it would be "Tickets" and it would let you 
> add custom fields specifically for posts of type "ticket" that would not 
> show up on the normal post editor page.
>
> HTH.
>
> -Mike Schinkel
> Custom Wordpress Plugins
> http://mikeschinkel.com/custom-wordpress-plugins
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "L'Autre Monde" <autremonde75 at gmail.com>
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 6:32:31 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] How can I filter on post count for categories?
>
> Mike,
>
> To be clear, I am currently developping a ticket system based on 
> Wordpress.
> So I created a custom type "ticket". I have customized the admin to 
> include
> this new type and duplicated the post editor with some restrictions.
>
> The idea behind that is that I wanted to keep wordpress built-in features
> intact.
> I didn't want to tweak the post editor. So I added another menu from 
> scratch
> with the same functionnalities as the post editor with custom fields.
>
> Now that my admin I/F looks ok, I need to be able to bring the tickets 
> with
> the posts together on the front end. It works pretty well with some
> filtering
> on the wp_query however I am stuck on this category counter ;)
>
> I will try the suggestion from Austin, thanks ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Olivier
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Schinkel" <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>
> To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 7:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] How can I filter on post count for categories?
>
>
>> Olivier:
>>
>> While I haven't drilled down yet to do this I think custom post types
>> could be a really important addition to WP either as a plugin or  better
>> yet to core. As there are so many assumptions in WordPress that  assume
>> "post" that doing as a plugin will be an uphill battle which is  why it
>> would really need to be in core.  If not in core too many other  plugins
>> won't support the notion of custom post types.
>>
>> I have a plugin I'm using for custom URLs that would fits well with
>> custom post types. It's not yet ready to be released because it  doesn't
>> yet have an admin console interface and also because it still  has a lot
>> of areas where it is not robust but I have been using it  with the More
>> Fields plugin which gives kind of a psuedo-custom post  types capability.
>>
>> Anyway, the reason I email is to ask why not use More Fields because  it
>> works albeit not using wp_posts->post_type but instead wp_postmeta-
>> >option_name="mf_post_type", and also to see how many other people
>> are interested in a custom post types in core?
>>
>> -Mike Schinkel
>> WordPress Custom Plugins
>> http://mikeschinkel.com/custom-wordpress-plugins/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jun 3, 2009, at 1:16 PM, L'Autre Monde wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am currently writing a plugin which creates a custom post type.  When
>>> the category list widget is displayed, the number of posts per
>>> categories only includes the posts with a post type of "post". Also,  if
>>> a category only has the customer post type, it isn't listed as it  is
>>> seen as an empty one.
>>>
>>> I have tried to filter on the get_category and list_cats to modify  the
>>> category->count for the category but it doesn't work :(
>>>
>>> Any idea for this please? :)
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>> Olivier
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