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Tag Groups, Version 0.29: Improvements Around Post Filters

The main feature of this release are links from the tag edit screen (“Tag Groups”) that take you directly a) to the list of tags or b) to the list of posts. Both links automatically activate the filters, so that you see only tags that belong to the group where you just clicked at, or …

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Tag Groups, Version 0.28: Tags in Random Order

As the title says, this update adds a new option to the shortcodes: orderby=”random” There is not much to say about it, besides a reminder that caching on the object or page level might prevent the random order from refreshing. The solution is to turn it off completely, or just for the page where you …

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4 Reasons Why You Should Organize Your WordPress Tags On Two Levels

Your site will be more fun to use and your work more productive if you organize WordPress tags on two levels, making tagging and searching more intuitive.

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Redirect URL to Post, Version 0.6: Filter by Relative Dates

The latest version of the Redirect to URL plugin adds two new query parameters, namely date_query_before and date_query_after. Both let you narrow down the scope of considered posts by setting a lower and/or an upper time limit. These parameters accept all values that can be understood by strtotime(), including relative formats, like “last monday” or “1 year ago”. …

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Tag Groups, Version 0.27: Natural Sorting And Bug Fixes

The main new feature of this release is the possibility to use natural sorting for tag names. You apply it with the shortcode parameter “orderby” and the value “natural”, instead of “name”. The entire shortcode could look like this: Chatty Mango Features Software Tools and Services Otherannouncement Black Friday Cyber Monday screencast block caching color …

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Solution for Mailchimp Pop-up Form Error on WordPress: “jQuery.js not found (404)”

While installing the Mailchimp Pop-up form on WordPress, I ran into a problem that many others seem to have encountered as well: The script “jQuery.js” cannot be found at “https://chattymango.com/jQuery.js”, which of course breaks the entire pop-up. Actually, jQuery comes bundled with WordPress and just needs to be loaded from the right location. Unfortunately, you …

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Tag Groups Version 0.26: Conditional Loading of Shortcodes And a Bug Fix

This minor release comes with a new option to load the scripts and stylings for tag clouds only if the corresponding shortcodes are being used on that post or page. This can make the page load faster. On the other hand, for that option the post or page is being scanned for appearances of that shortcode, …

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Tag Groups Premium in Beta

A few weeks ago I started moving all plugin-related pages to this website. At the same time I began working on a new WordPress plugin: Tag Groups Premium, extending the free Tag Groups plugin. The premium plugin adds many features that have been requested by users, but their implementation was simply too time-consuming for a …

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Problems with Shortcodes in Text Widgets

The text widgets of WordPress 4.8 came with a new feature – a HTML editor. That is great for people who want to format their text, but it is also bad news since the TinyMCE editor tends to clean up or reformat the original code. For example, “=>” gets converted into the HTML-safe encoding “=>”, and …

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Tag Groups Version 0.25: Maintenance and Housekeeping

It was time again to push out some bug fixes fixes – though none of them serious for the majority of users. You will probably notice some changes only on the settings screen. Over the past years, I add new features and settings while trying not to affect too much the existing layout. That was …