jtpratt

$curauth only works on author page, not in other places. You can only get author details in the sidebar that would work in single.php – read this tutorial: https://blog.themeforest.net/wordpress/wordpress-author-details/

I think this plugin might be a bit more than I can handle programming wise, but it sure would be very useful.

@esmi – thanks for the reply. This wouldn’t amend any of a theme’s original files at all, it would create new ones.

Let me explain the problem.

Scenario: you have a WP site with 10 categories and 50 tags. You would like to take advantage of those pages by adding original content and possibly monetize particular ones with specific ads by category or tag. By creating a cat-id.php or tag-slug.php file (based on your index.php or single.php) and placing it in your theme dir, that file will be get served as the theme page for that particular tag or category page.

I guess that you “could” store the specific content for a cat or tag page in the db, but I didn’t want an “additional” db query. I mean a WP page is already getting “the_content” for the post/page anyway, and the plugin would have to grab the specific cat/tag content and post it before the regular content (double lookup).

But I do now see what you mean about “switching themes” – the tag/cat pages you created would have to be created again for a new theme.

Any ideas? AFAIK there is no plugin out there that help to manage tag or cat pages at all.

Tim- thanks for the help. I had wanted PHP code to do it with wp_list_pages so I wouldn’t have to hardcode the page-item-number into css after pages were created (but that does work).

thanks!

Yep, I had the EXACT same problem on my WP 2.6 blog. As soon as I used recordinghack’s fix – all is well now and “admin” appears in the dropdown names for “page authors”.

This is definitely a WordPress bug and should be reported!

not a single reply in 3 days – nobody has even a single suggestion?

I will be checking out the new version – thank you very much!

this whole thing is really screwed up. My WP 2.3.3 install rewrites the code when I’m NOT using the visual editor too, and when I try and use <!–more–> it rewrites that too and the page never breaks…I’ll never know if anyone responds to this since these forums have no mechanism for notification at all.

oh, forgot to mention, for anyone reading this the only solution I could find for now that would work was Aizatto’s Related Posts plugin:

https://dev.aizatto.com/2007/04/05/aizattos-related-posts-plugin-released/

misterbisson:

I’ve been thinking about this, and I haven’t responded yet because I’ve been thinking about how to word this. I don’t think you have any idea how widely used bsuite version 2 was. Tens of thousands of wordpress blogs used that plugin – maybe more. I know I was using it on more than a dozen wordpress sites. I don’t think I realized how dependant on it I was until I upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1 on some sites and it failed to work.

The best part about bsuite v2 was that it did multiple things. I loved the stats, but honestly the defining feature was the related posts and search highlighting that it did. I know that you said it was broken in version 2.x but it worked just fine for me in every site I had.

I write about your plugin many times on my blogs because I wanted to recommend it to as many others as I could. So when I upgraded to version 3.x I was taken aback when the related posts option and search highlighting wasn’t even included. I mean, that really freaked me out because the release notes and information about the new version didn’t really even state that. I don’t want you to think that we don’t appreciate your coding this plugin, many are created and then abandoned by the author. But creating a new version that actually removes key functionality your’ve been using for a few years is really disheartening.

I thank you for putting the referrers back in the reports. But would you consider at very least creating a new plugin as part of the bsuite – a ‘brelated’? You may not know this, but there aren’t many options for related posts plugins at all. There are many issues with the ones that exist, some are abandoned, and I don’t see a single one that says it will work with WP 2.3.1. If you create a new version of related posts yours could (once again) become the default standard. The only reason I installed the original bsuite on every blog I owned was because of the related posts and search highlighting. It was a ‘must-have’ plugin.

Please consider doing this, and your plugin work is more than greatly appreciated by the WP community at large.

I was hoping for some kind of help after 3 days – anybody out there?

I have absolutely no idea what happenned, but my errors went away just minutes ago for absolutely no reason at all. Everything is fine now and I don’t know why.

any ideas on this at all?? I read a German WP Support thread that had something similar as a Permalink issue. I updated my permalinks and no luck. Another thread mentioned something about a Photopress plugin conflict, but I disabled Photopress and also no luck – still errors.

Any ideas on other things I can try?