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[Stingray]

First of all, making a modified version of makeCategoryLink seems like the obvious thing to do. However, there were some reasons I didn't suggest that - the same reasons we haven't created the function yet:

1) A category link will give you all entries in that category (independent of weblog). However, a user link will give you only the entries written by that user in a specific weblog.
2) A user can have written both entries and page, but the user link only returns the entries. (Pages don't have categories so there is no such problem for categories.)

So to make it clear what you get from a user link a decided to include the weblog parameter. When we have fixed the user link, at least issue 1 above, I'll create a function makeUserLink (or makeAuthorLink).

Okay, I don't understand what difference the weblog parameter makes or doesn't make. Perhaps its because my site isn't as extensive as some others. I'm simply trying to create a link to a page that shows the entries a user has authored from the blogstats snippet.

The snippet doesn't count pages, so that point is moot for the extension's purposes.

However, what I might do, since the extension counts an author's entries based on included categories, is create a link that looks like ?u={author}&c={included cats}. However, I don't know if that would be any more or less desirable than passing a weblog parameter. It would, however, keep the output consistent with the count of the extension. For instance, we want to count an author's entries in three categories of a 6-category weblog. The link with his username, therefore, would only show his entries in those three categories (i.e., ?u=author&c=cat1,cat2,cat3).

The mod_rewrite parameter/prefix for a user link is "author" - see example.htaccess.

Yeah, I thought of this before coming back to the keyboard this evening and made the appropriate changes

NB! Never give a function a name that is likely to be used in the core. Multiple definitions of the same function is a fatal error.

I wasn't planning on keeping that in the code, at least not in its present form. I started with that as a base since I was just copying and pasting (and modifying). Thanks for the tip, though.

[hansfn]

Okay, I don't understand what difference the weblog parameter makes or doesn't make.

A PivotX site can have many weblogs - where each weblog publishes one or more categories. (One category can be part of several weblogs.) The frontpage (start page) of a PivotX site can be a weblog or a page. And so on. For a site that has one weblog and uses the weblog as the frontpage the weblog parameter normally makes no difference.

[Stingray]

Version 1.2 released.

As promised, isactive has been added. Entries and comments per entry author has been added. See my site (linked in the original post) for a complete changelog. See the documentation or my site for full usage.

Please Note: If you are upgrading from a previous version, some of the parameters have changed. The way %cat-link% is parsed has been changed, as well.

[hansfn]

PS! Both the (included) documentation and the web page still mentions format as the required parameter (but I guess it is cat_format / user_format). It is used in the minimal/basic usage and example.

[Stingray]

PS! Both the (included) documentation and the web page still mentions format as the required parameter (but I guess it is cat_format / user_format). It is used in the minimal/basic usage and example.

hrmm, I updated the doc and webpage, but I see what you see, too. Strange...the rest of it saved. But, yeah, neither the basic usage nor example changed to what I changed it to.

I'll fix it (er, try to, again ) here in a moment.

[Stingray]

Version 1.2.1 released.

No changes to the extension since 1.2, simply completely corrected the documentation to reflect the changes made to 1.2.

[verbaljam]

I just installed it. Excellent plugin (just what I needed) and very clear documentation (important).

[Stingray]

Version 1.3 released.

This release is a simple bug fix so that categories or authors with 0 entries or 0 comments will display a 0 rather than remain blank.

[Harm10]

Is there a reason why this extension is not also available on the extensions site?

[Stingray]

Up until 1.3, I hadn't submitted it, but a couple of days ago (as with the UA in Comments extension) I sent it to info@pivotx.net (see my reply in that thread).