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

Thu Jun 4 08:06:04 GMT 2009

You are killing my dead horse ;) lol :)

Well honestly, I started to work on this two months ago. While working on a
bigger project, I realized that I needed a ticket system in order to provide
technical support for it. I searched on google and I haven't found any quick
solution. All the support systems are so complex and not as quick and easy
to use as a wordpress plugin. So I said to myself that I need to quickly
code a wordpress plugin to achieve this need. I thought this would be the
best for me but also probably for other people. I saw few requests within
the community for a wordpress plugin to turn wordpress into a ticket system.

Also, I thought it would be a good exercise of style to dig into wordpress
code to replicate and customize the post engine. I faced a lot of challenges
while doing this and I thought I would gave up many times but finally I
managed to have something working.

Now I am just in the finalizing phase where I try to bring the minimum set
of features to make this valuable for the users.

I will obviously post this plugin on the wordpress repository once I would
have completed the release 1.0 dev. I hope this will happen before the end
of June as I am quite interested to get some feedback on it.

Thanks for your help anyway!

Olivier

2009/6/4 Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>

> Not to beat a dead-horse, but I think More Fields now has almost all of
> what you are asking for. You can turn off whatever metaboxes you don't want.
> Maybe it would be easier to add the automatic customised front end template
> to More Fields than to program it from scratch?
>
> Still, if you want to continue more power to you. I'll be interested to see
> it when completed.
>
> -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: Thursday, June 4, 2009 2:07:01 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] How can I filter on post count for categories?
>
> 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>
> To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
> 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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