Comments on: BNS Featured Category

By: Edward Caissie

Edward Caissie — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:15:03 +0000

NB: Expect this to break (badly) if more than one category is used in the instance.

By: Edward Caissie

Edward Caissie — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:07:56 +0000

If you are looking at "re-styling" the title, then you will need to work with the code on line 93. [code language="php" firstline="91"] /* Title of widget (before and after defined by themes). */ if ( $title ) echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; [/code] Modify by adding a wrapping 'div' around the '$title' variable ... without testing, this may work: [code language="php" firstline="91"] /* Title of widget (before and after defined by themes). */ if ( $title ) echo $before_title . '' . $title . '' . $after_title; [/code]

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:51:23 +0000

If you point me in the right direction in the plugin code, I might be able to contribute a patch that does it. We need something like this ASAP for a specific project, so I’m motivated to make it happen

By: Edward Caissie

Edward Caissie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:17:59 +0000

@Eric – A quick look at what you are suggesting would indicate that a single category class identifier could easily be added to the code, but the plugin functionality allows for multiple categories in the same instance.

In this case, I will be investigating the multiple category modification idea further before releasing additional code. Thank you for the idea!

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:27:03 +0000

Is there any way to apply different style classes to the category headings based on the category ID or name? It seems that they’re just using the widget-header class, but I need to make each category heading look slightly different.
Thanks, by the way, for your work on this plugin.

By: Edward Caissie

Edward Caissie — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:59:15 +0000

That’s great! … and you are welcome.

By: scottAD

scottAD — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:05:24 +0000

That did it! Perfect!! Thank you so much for making this, btw!

By: Edward Caissie

Edward Caissie — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:04:40 +0000

@Scott – The basic styling of the items in the widget follows from the styles that would be used by your archive/category template page. I added additional CSS classes so you could modify the widget output to look differently if you wish.

Looking at your website using your “Comix” as a sample, try this bit of CSS in your style.css file:

.bns-featured-category .post {margin: 0 0 10px;}

The CSS you tried above would only affect the Category Description which does not appear to be in use with the Comix example.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:50:19 +0000

This plugin works fine for me, but I still don’t understand how to edit the CSS for this… I tried using
.bnsfc-cat-desc {font-style: italic;}

as a test, but nothing changes. I just want to tighten up the spacing between the UL of each post and to have a solid line under each one. (Default is a dotted line?)

Hmm…

By: Edward Caissie

Edward Caissie — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:55:06 +0000

@shoaib – Thanks for the compliments! Adding post thumbnails is still on the review list, especially with the new functionality added in WordPress 2.9