[Plugin: WP Document Revisions] Filtering with documents shortcode seems to be broken

As for number of posts, the argument is actually numberposts. It comes from WP’s get_posts function. I’ll update the documentation.

As for the taxonomy, I just discover the bug myself and have a fix in the works. Look for an update very, very soon.

I’m going to give it a bit of testing still before I push it to the stable version, but I believe the below linked version should solve your problem:

https://github.com/benbalter/WP-Document-Revisions/zipball/develop

– Ben

Works like a champ thanks much – as an aside I’ve made edits to your code to allow for document type (for a town website so things like minutes, policy, ordinance etc) and added it to look and operate exactly like Workflow State – so in terms of style and keeping out of the way of updates to your plugin – how would you recommend keeping those ‘extensions’ separate. The custom taxonomy comes out easily but not the changes required in admin.php to display additional column, drop down meta box, saving the document type etc.

In theory, you shouldn’t have to update the plugin files at all. Most if not all of what the plugin does is hooking into the existing WordPress Plugin API, and then a handful of functions I’ve actually created additional API endpoints (for example, the action document_edit fires when WP loads the edit document screen).

I’d make each bit of functionality a separate, stand-alone plugin. The custom taxonomies can come from the custom taxonomy generator, and just set the post type to document. I’ve done that on a handful of sites.

If you properly add the custom taxonomies, you can add the custom columns using admin columns or just google and there’s some good tutorials out there for how to do it manually.

got it – thanks

I have not been able to make the [documents] shortcode filter by author or author_name. Do you have any ideas/suggestions?

sorry bit of a newbie on wordpress – added 'author_name'=>null,
to documents_shortcode default array and everything is great. I’ll end up creating my own local plugin and shortcode to extend wp_document_revisions with these changes – thanks again for you help

So even on that one, for example, you’ll notice there’s a document_shortcode_atts filter right below that that you can hook into prior to the shotcode being processed.

Either way, rewrote the way the shortcode handles arguments. The link to the dev version above should now work with author_name.

Specifically the shortcode should now accept: author, author_name, cat, category__and, category_name, day, hour, meta_compare, meta_key, meta_value, meta_value_num, minute, monthnum, name, numberposts, order, orderby, p, post_parent, post_status, second, tag, tag_id, {tax}, w, and year.

Also, feel free to fork the version on github… if you find any bugs, more than glad to accept a pull request.

Hello, I’m a newbie on WordPress and I’m having a hard time listing documents under a particular workflow state in my site.

How can I filter my documents so that a particular page will show only documents of a particular workflow state? I tried using shortcode like [documents w=”6″] (does “w” stands for “workflow state”?), but no documents is shown! ??

PS: I’m using version 1.2.2, if it helps…

Thanks in advance!

replace “w” with workflow_state and that should work. You may need to refer to the state by it slug, rather than ID, so “under-review” rather than “6”.

(sorry, wrong entry – deleted)