Category Sort plugin 16

June 7, 2006   plugins, wordpress

If you’re a blogger with OCD you might be interested in my new Category Sort plugin. It simply alphabetizes the category list that gets printed out when the the_category() function is called. Wordpress sorts this list according to category ID, which has always seemed completely random and bugged the hell out of me. Since I’m using this plugin, the categories for this post are “plugins, wordpress” instead of “wordpress, plugins”. This is not that exciting, but it looks nicer. Download it at the plugin page.

16 Responses

  1. 1 Geek Jun 11th, 2006 at 11:32 pm

    Nice, that’s always got under my skin too!

  2. 2 John Lamansky Jun 20th, 2006 at 6:13 pm

    Awesome! Just what I was looking for. Thanks!

  3. 3 Michael Jul 2nd, 2006 at 11:20 am

    Unfortunately, the link to the plugin page does not work (error 404)

  4. 4 joey Jul 2nd, 2006 at 6:23 pm

    sorry about that, everything should be working again. there was a little bit of a database meltdown recently and that was one thing that didn’t get fixed.

  5. 5 Georgina Jul 26th, 2006 at 4:02 pm

    Thanks for writing this plug-in. Very handy.

    Since installing it, I’ve found that sometimes one category per post (and only one) is output without a space after the comma, like: “movies, books,tv, music”.

    I made a hacky fix for my site (editing the plug-in to add a space to the end of $joined) but I thought you’d want to know about the issue.

    Cheers.

  6. 6 Inside Aug 4th, 2006 at 1:57 pm

    hi! I just installed your plugin..but it’s not working :( Please help..

  7. 7 Denis de Bernardy Nov 3rd, 2006 at 10:52 am

    what’s the license? (please cc the reply by email)

  8. 8 joey Nov 3rd, 2006 at 10:56 am

    i hereby release this plugin under a very liberal “do whatever you want with it” license.

  9. 9 Designer Nov 21st, 2006 at 9:26 pm

    I installed it on the latest wordpress 2.0.5 and it doesn’t work. Help.

  10. 10 Tom Jan 30th, 2007 at 9:44 am

    Is your plugin compatible with the new 2.1 release of wordpress?

  11. 11 Jenny Feb 20th, 2007 at 6:17 am

    I’ve tried it on 2.1 and it’s working for me.

  12. 12 Dave Sep 5th, 2007 at 9:01 am

    I just upgraded to WordPress 2.2.2 a few days ago, and this plugin seemed to break the category selector on the Write Post page. I disabled it and things went back to normal. Not sure what the problem is.

  13. 13 Dustin Sep 15th, 2007 at 3:16 pm

    It seems the sort is case sensitive. This will mean ‘Z*’ will come before ‘a*’. Was this done on purpose?

  14. 14 Dustin Sep 16th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

    Dave

    I have that same problem in v2.2.3.

  15. 15 joey Sep 16th, 2007 at 4:04 pm

    Dave & Dustin,
    I haven’t upgraded Wordpress in a while, I’ll try to get this working but time is in short supply right now.

    Dustin,
    It’s just using PHP’s ksort() function. I guess I never noticed because all of my categories are lowercase! I’ll work on that too.

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