About this plugin
Numerous people are using WordPress for blogging and in many cases there are more than one authors on a website. It’s uncomfortably surprising that WordPress doesn’t support out of the box a category menu for each author separately.
I was looking for this feature online for my personal need but couldn’t find it on any plugin. 3 where the database structure changed for WordPress and it simply stopped working.
As I saw it, it wasn’t worth fixing old, deprecated (and highly cluttered) code, and there weren’t any other solutions out there, so I decided to create a new plugin. Thankfully the new database and API made it as easy as I had hoped for.
I ended up with this plugin, that was created as a wrapper of the default category menu.
It is lightweight and can easily plug-in, plug-out. ) is lost. In fact it can be easily extended and could support future versions of the blogging platform for years to come.
Usage
After you upload an activate the plugin through your admin panel, all you need to do is call the custom function wp_author_categories() that will create an author’s menu for you. Notice that this only works in author pages and will revert to the default category menu in any other case.
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You can replace it with this condition that will use the wp_author_categories() function instead, when you are visiting the author pages
php /* * First write down the arguments you want to use for you menu and store them in a variable. >
php” file in your template folder, you can simply rename “wp_list_categories()” to “wp_author_categories()”, passing the same arguments.
To uninstall, it’s as easy as doing the reverse actions. Delete all references of the wp_author_categories() function from your template files and uninstall the plugin through that WordPress’s admin panel.
License
This work is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License:
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