Moo Collapsing Categories free WordPress plugin
Description
Moo Collapsing Categories free WordPress plugin
This is a relatively simple plugin that uses Javascript based on MooTools framework to
make each Categories links in the sidebar collapsable. Every post corresponding to a given
category will be expanded. Fork of Rob Felty’s Collapsing Categories.
Multiple languages content is now fully supported through compatibility with qTranslate and WPML Multilingual CMS
Plugin Homepage: http://www.3dolab.net/en/mootools-collapsing-categories-and-archives
Running Demo
banner image by Karora
icon by Jdforrester
What’s new?
See the CHANGELOG for more information
Compatibility
This plugin is compatible with WordPress 2.8+, but not with prior versions
(2.7.1 or earlier).
If you prefer to insert code into your theme manually instead of using
widgets, please check the manual installation instructions.
Options and configuration
Style options can be set via the settings panel. All other options can be set
from the widget panel. If you wish to insert the code into your theme manually
instead of using a widget, you can use the following options. These options
can be given to the collapsCat() function either as an array or in query
style, in the same manner as the wp_list_categories function.
$defaults=array( ‘showPostCount’ => true, ‘inExclude’ => ‘exclude’, ‘inExcludeCats’ => ”, ‘showPosts’ => true, ‘showPages’ => false, ‘linkToCat’ => true, ‘olderThan’ => 0, ‘excludeAll’ => ‘0’, ‘catSortOrder’ => ‘ASC’, ‘catSort’ => ‘catName’, ‘postSortOrder’ => ‘ASC’, ‘postSort’ => ‘postTitle’, ‘expand’ => ‘0’, ‘defaultExpand’ => ”, ‘postTitleLength’ => 0, ‘animate’ => 0, ‘catfeed’ => ‘none’, ‘catTag’ => ‘cat’, ‘showPostDate’ => false, ‘postDateAppend’ => ‘after’, ‘postDateFormat’ => ‘m/d’, ‘useCookies’ => true, ‘showTopLevel’ => true, ‘postsBeforeCats’ => false, ‘debug’=>’0’ );
inExclude
Whether to include or exclude certain categories
‘exclude’ (default)
‘include’
inExcludeCats
The categories which should be included or excluded
showPages
Whether or not to include pages as well as posts. Default if false
linkToCat
1 (true), clicking on a category title will link to the category archive (default)
0 (false), clicking on a category title expands and collapses
catSort
How to sort the categorys. Possible values:
‘catName’ the title of the category (default)
‘catId’ the Id of the category
‘catSlug’ the url of the category
‘catCount’ the number of posts in the category
‘catOrder’ custom order specified in the categorys settings
catSortOrder
Whether categories should be sorted in normal or reverse
order. Possible values:
‘ASC’ normal order (a-z 0-9) (default)
‘DESC’ reverse order (z-a 9-0)
postSort
How to sort the posts. Possible values:
‘postDate’ the date of the post (default)
‘postId’ the Id of the post
‘postTitle’ the title of the post
‘postComment’ the number of comments on the post
postSortOrder
Whether post should be sorted in normal or reverse
order. Possible values:
‘ASC’ normal order (a-z 0-9) (default)
‘DESC’ reverse order (z-a 9-0)
expand
The symbols to be used to mark expanding and collapsing. Possible values:
‘0’ Triangles (default)
‘1’ + –
‘2’ [+] [-]
‘3’ images (you can upload your own if you wish)
‘4’ custom symbols
customExpand
If you have selected ‘4’ for the expand option, this character will be
used to mark expandable link categories
customCollapse
If you have selected ‘4’ for the expand option, this character will be
used to mark collapsible link categories
postTitleLength
Truncate post titles to this number of characters (default: 0 = don’t
truncate)
animate
When set to true, collapsing and expanding will be animated
catfeed
Whether to add a link to the rss feed for a category. Possible values:
‘none’ (default)
‘text’ shows RSS
‘image’ shows an RSS icon
catTag
Whether to include categories, tags, or both. Possible values:
‘cat’ (default)
‘tag’
‘both’
showPostDate
When true, show the date of each post
postDateAppend
Show the date before or after the post title. Possible values:
‘after’ (default)
‘before’
postDateFormat
What format the post date is in. This uses the standard php date
formatting codes
useCookies
When true, expanding and collapsing of categories is remembered for each
visitor. When false, categories are always display collapsed (unless
explicitly set to auto-expand). Possible values:
1 (true) (default)
0 (false)
debug
When set to true, extra debugging information will be displayed in the
underlying code of your page (but not visible from the browser). Use
this option if you are having problems
showTopLevel
When set to false, the top level category will not be shown. This could
be useful if you only want to show subcategories from one particular
top-level category
1 (true) (default)
0 (false)
postsBeforeCats
When set to true, posts in category X will be ordered before
subcategories of category X
1 (true)
0 (false) (default)
Examples
collapsCat(‘animate=1&catSort=ASC&expand=3&inExcludeCats=general,uncategorized’)
This will produce a list with:
* animation on
* categories shown in alphabetical order
* using images to mark collapsing and expanding
* exclude posts from the categories general and uncategorized
Fallback
Currently this plugin relies on Javascript to expand and collapse the links.
If a user’s browser doesn’t support javascript they won’t see the links to the
posts, but the links to the categories will still work (which is the default
behavior in wordpress anyways)