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Thanks to an astute observation by Krista, I’ve rolled a new version of the CRw which will support permalinks correctly (”/?cat=15″ style and “/category/wordpress/widgets/” style).

Category Replacement widget version 0.4

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Was curious, so went looking in the server logs and saw that over 130 people have downloaded this widget.

Wow. I really didn’t think it’d be that popular.

Keep new ideas coming, I’ll try to work on whatever I can.

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As requested, a new version of the Category Replacement Widget with support for drop-down category lists:

Example of it in action:

Category Replacement widget version 0.3

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Some themes, such as Kurtina, use a drop-down archive listing. Since I didn’t find a widget to support this, I tossed together a quick replacement.

Control Panel:

Drop-down Archives widget

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Rolled out a new version of the Category Replacement Widget plugin.

Changes:

* Minor code reformatting to my coding standards.
* Added a drop-down control to allow you to sort categories by name (default as in 0.1) or by category ID.

Category Replacement widget 0.2

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I officially love the Now Reading plugin, but there are some itches that I need to scratch with it. This is mainly a to-do list for myself, though I will share the modified version (and Rob can feel free to integrate the changes if he wants to, or not, if he doesn’t):

1. Add support for books that are not released yet.
1. I’ve got the initial setup for this working over on my writing blog.
2. I do need to figure out how to change the database structure to support the “unreleased” enum on b_status without making users execute the SQL manually.
3. Add new field to the database: b_release. This will track when the book is to be released.
4. Add support for updating unreleased books to check for new cover art.
2. When adding books:
1. Add support for editting the data returned by Amazon before adding it to the database. A lot of the time Amazon post-pends subtitles/series names/etc. to the title of the book that I want to trim. Or screws up the name of the author.
2. Add support for setting the status of the book. No sense adding a book then going into the Manage page and marking it unreleased/currently reading/finished… should be able to do this in one step.

I think that’s the basic run-down of what I want to work on… will let you all know how it goes.

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