Comments on: Alt Link Text

By: Tim Holt

Tim Holt — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:26:30 +0000

Right, Page Lists Plus is now completely str_replace based (well, nearly), and does everything that Alt Link Text ever did and more, so I'd suggest switching to that. Thanks again to Rod for the input.

By: Tim Holt

Tim Holt — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:42:03 +0000

Thanks Rod. The first official release of Page Lists Plus will use str_replace in place of preg_replace, so this problem shouldn’t arise from then on.

By: Rod Sherwin

Rod Sherwin — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:22:44 +0000

Simple fix is to use the basic str_replace in the two replacements so as not to get into trouble with regular expressions e.g.
$output = str_replace(’>’ . $post_title . ” . $alt_link_text . ‘<’, $output);

By: Rod Sherwin

Rod Sherwin — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:53:45 +0000

When the original title of the page contains brackets e.g. () the original page title is used rather than the alt title text.

For example, I have a page called “About the Emotional Freedom Technique EFT” and alt title text of “About EFT”. This works fine. But If I now change the page title to “About the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)” and leave the alt title text as “About EFT”, in wp_page_lists the title is now shown as “About the Emotional Freedom Techniqe (EFT)” rather than the alt text.

By: Tim Holt

Tim Holt — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:20:50 +0000

Just a quick note about recent releases.

Yesterday I released v1.0 via the offical WordPress plugin database. This version included a new feature, a checkbox on the Write Page and Manage Page screens that lets you exclude pages from your page lists.

This morning I realised that by default new pages were being excluded from page lists, which meant that to create a page and include it in your menus you now had to remember to check a box that you didn’t have to check before.

This was the opposite of user-friendly, so this morning I rushed out v1.0.1, which includes new pages in page lists by default. If you’re one of the eight people who downloaded the irritating version of the plugin, I apologise (and suggest you upgrade)!

Please also note that if you upgrade to v1.x from any v0.x, then you’ll need to deactivate and reactivate the plugin (otherwise you’ll get error messages caused by a missing database table column).

That’s all for now. I hope you’ll find the plugin useful.