[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #2328: Provide structured access to category list

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#2328: Provide structured access to category list
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       Id:  2328         |      Status:  new                     
Component:  Template     |    Modified:  Sat Feb 18 23:31:07 2006
 Severity:  enhancement  |   Milestone:  2.1                     
 Priority:  normal       |     Version:  2.0.1                   
    Owner:  anonymous    |    Reporter:  coppit                  
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Comment (by majelbstoat):

 Let me explain a bit more clearly my position.

 Say I would like to return a subset of each category (along with a correct
 post count), containing only posts written in 2005.  This could easily be
 any other filtering parameter (tags, language, author, etc).

 Now, with the solution you have provided in place, I am given an array of
 all the defined categories plus a full post count for each category, minus
 any exclusions I make with list_cats_exclusions.  However, I don't want to
 exclude whole categories, just parts of each, so list_cats_exclusions
 doesn't help.

 Using list_cats_cats, I'd be able to look at the array and regenerate a
 post count for each category based on my criteria.  But, I still might end
 up with categories that have 0 posts.  I suppose I could use
 list_cats_exclusions to exclude those categories but this means
 calculating the post count twice, once in each function.

 A much better solution, I believe, is a unified one that actually provides
 an opportunity to give list_cats a set of categories that the plugin wants
 to return, combined with blog author options such as "hide these specific,
 private categories and order them by how many posts we have".  I can't see
 a good solution to this (not particularly uncommon) problem using the
 functionality that your patch provides.  If you can see an elegant
 solution to the problem outlined above using your supplied patch, I'd be
 all for it.  And, seeing as wp_list_cats is the only function that calls
 list_cats, and outputs a structured category list, I believe it is
 related.

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