I’ve been very very very busy lately and it’s only now that I’ve found time to update one of my favorite plugins - one that’s being used by quite a bunch of people already. After Wordpress upgraded from older versions to the new ones, my plugin started to show bugs and stopped working properly. Lots of comments came in re errors and stuff like “it’s not working” and I really meant to fix the plugin but I wasn’t able to - my sincerest apologies.

Now, I’m happy to tell you that the plugin is finally updated and from the old v0.1b it’s now version 1.0.

Click here to read more about the plugin.

Cheers!

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You can download the theme at my Coders Cult - another one of my blogs.

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Update: After a long time, I finaly had the chance to update and fix the bugs in the plugin. From v0.1b, I can now say that it’s a true v1.0. This should work with the latest versions of Wordpress now. Just overwrite themed-categories.php with the latest version and you’re all set.

2008-04-24: Fixed the redirect bug. Plugin no longer needs to redirect now.

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Introduction
I had to create my first wordpress plugin due to necessity. One of my clients require that he be able to assign different themes for each category. I have seen this feature in the Wordpress Subdomain Plugin but I can’t use it as is since my client doesn’t want his categories to be subdomains. I looked at the code of said plugin and said to myself, “heck, this is easy.”

Inspired by the subdomain plugin, I decided to write my own plugin learning from both actual code and the wordpress plugin API. In approximately 4 hours, I was able to come up with my very first Wordpress Plugin and I love it! Hehehe.

Introducing, the Themed Categories Plugin. It’s in its early stages so I will be glad if any of you can help me improve it. With it, you can assign different themes to each of your wordpress categories.

How to Install
To install it, just download the file, unzip it to your wordpress plugins folder and activate it.

How to Use
To use it, simply go to Manage->Categories, edit the category you wish to assign a theme to, select the theme from the “Select category themed” dropdown, and save it.

Disclaimer
Lastly, I haven’t tested this extensively but it seems to work fine under Wordpress 2.0. I have no plans of testing it in Wordpress 1.5 so please don’t bother me if it doesn’t work there. After all, it’s easier for all of us to simply upgrade to 2.0.

Thanks! Post your comments and bug reports below.

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To download the latest copy, just search this site for your theme and download it. The download links always point to the latest versions.

Lastly, thanks to those made suggestions and bug reports. I really did appreciate your feedback.

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And oh, I’d love to hear comments from you. Thanks!

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And oh, btw, don’t forget to post your comments about the themes below. I’ll be glad to hear suggestions, comments, and bug reports from you.

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Here are some of the basic features of this theme:

• Displays categories as tabs (not necessarily good if you have lots of categories)
• Automatically list your top 10 posts on the sidebar if you have the Customizable Post Listings plug-in installed.
• Checks if you have the Subster Rejuvenation plug-in installed and if so, it makes the necessary adjustments so that the previous / next links at the bottom of your blog would be based on the current category.

So far, these are the features that I can think of and I chose them simply because I need them.

I hope you like it and don’t forget to leave your comments below. Thanks!

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