The Enhanced View Plugin
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR WORDPRESS 2.0 USERS: This plugin doesn’t work under WordPress 2.0. I honestly do not know that it ever will, but I won’t say “never.” As you can tell, I haven’t upgraded to 2.0 myself. When and if that happens and I reach the same point of frustration with the limitations of the post viewing interface in that version, I may have the impetus to update it. Sorry for any inconvenience.
UPDATE 10/20/05: Reduced memory usage so people with PHP memory limits and large numbers of categories will hopefully work.
At long last, it’s finally ready for an initial release. Announcing the Enhanced Views plugin for WordPress. This plugin replaces the original Posts functionality in the WordPress administration interface with a new version that include increased functionality, including:
- Paging through posts with easy-to-use Next and Previous page links as well as links to individual page numbers.
- Easily selectable number of posts per page.
- Browsing by Category, Author, and Date.
- Sorting by selectable columns.
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Installation
Note that this plugin requires WordPress version 1.5 Strayhorn or any of the 1.5.1 nightlies. Do not install this plugin on a 1.3 beta or earlier release. Installing the plugin couldn’t be easier. Choose from the following methods:
- EASIEST –> One-Click Install via the WordPress Plugin Manager - Go to your WPPM plugins page, refresh the view, and look under the ‘Admin Tools’ section for the “Enhanced Views” plugin. Click on the name and click on “One-Click Install”. You’re done.
- Manual install by ZIP file - Download the zip file and extract the files from it. Upload the enhanced-views.php file to your ‘wp-content/plugins’ directory and the other two files into a new folder called ‘wp-content/enhanced-views’. Visit your WordPress administration interface’s Plugins page and activate the plugin.
- Manual install by tarball - Download the tarball and upload it to your server. Make sure that it is in the ‘wp-content’ directory, then untar it with the
'tar xvzf enhanced-views.tar.gz'command. Visit your WordPress administration interface’s Plugins page and activate the plugin.
Usage
Using the plugin is even easier. There’s nothing special to do, just visit your standard ‘Manage’ page in the WordPress administration interface. It should look a bit different but it works pretty much the same as you’re used to. If you have many posts on your blog, you’ll see an area with Pages: followed by links of page numbers. Click on a page number link to immediately jump to that page of comments. Want to see more or fewer posts per page? Change the number of posts to display on each page by typing a number into the ‘Show:’ input box and either click on the ‘Show:’ button or press return after entering the number.
Browsing works a little differently than you’re used to. Consider all of the fields as active at the same time. Want to search for all entries that contain the word “WordPress” posted into the “Blogging” category in March of 2004 and written by “Admin”? Simply select each of those — pressing the button next to each field as you select them — and you’ll have no trouble narrowing down your search.
You can sort posts by date, title, and author and you can select descending and ascending order. Simply click on the link at the top of the column in order to select the search order. Please note that those of you running Ryan Boren’s “Custom Posts Per Page” plugin will be unable to switch from ascending to descending order. I’m working on a way around this but have no workaround at this time.
Removal
Removal is rather straightforward as well. You can either deactivate the plugin or remove the plugin file entirely. No core WordPress files are touched, ever.
Support
If you have problems or questions, feel free to leave a comment here. There are currently ##comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 713″; echo $wpdb->get_var($sql);?>## comments about this plugin. Join the discussion!
Change log
Version 0.4:
- Reduced memory usage so people with PHP memory limits and large numbers of categories will hopefully work.
Version 0.3:
- Handle apostrophes in category names more appropriately. This resulted in many people not seeing anything show up when the plugin was activated.
hello, Does it work with WP 2.7 ?
thanks
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