Category plugin

  • morzar

    (@morzar)


    7 years, 6 months ago

    Hey guys, I’m sorry if I’m not in the right forum.. anyway:

    I’ve a basketball website in which every team has a category.
    it starts at U9, U11, U13, U15 and so on (U means “under”)

    So, thing is, we have categories that are full and we no longer accept kids and I have to display that information on the homepage, and on the category page.

    Till now, I’ve been using “sticky posts” for each category but it’s not efficient.

    What I would like is, in the category section, have a checkbox “category full” which will then, in the frontend, display the required messages.

    What plugin would you use? I don’t know code, so don’t even start with that 😉 😉 😉

    Cheers,
    Alex

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  • Matt Watson

    (@mwtsn)

    7 years, 6 months ago

    Hi @morzar,

    Are you saying on the ‘Edit Category’ page you would like a checkbox that you can check to indicate that the category is full?

    Then on the category page (eg: /category/U9) you would like a message to display if that checkbox has been checked?

    I don’t think there is a plugin that can do something quite that specific without some level of coding I’m afraid.

    This one could get you part way there: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-custom-taxonomy-meta/ but displaying of the message would not happen with this.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by Matt Watson.
    JNashHawkins

    (@jnashhawkins)

    7 years, 6 months ago

    Two thoughts on this. I’d install this plugin ‘Horizontal scrolling announcements’ and incorporate its output into the top of the website ‘above the fold’. Probably right under the menu. You can then make the announcement, “the following classes are full at this time’ and list the ones that are.

    In the categories list… Dashboard –> Posts –> Categories you can add a description for each cat then you can add a line at the top of your text, “This Class is full at this time”. Or something like that.

    Additionally, your theme may show the category descriptions by default or might be made to show the descriptions during a ‘mouseover’ event. If neither function is available you might find a dev to create that for you for a small fee or find a theme that does this action.

    You might even excise the code from a theme that does what you wish and add it to your present theme providing the license will allow it. GPL themes do!

    Thread Starter morzar

    (@morzar)

    7 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks for all you answers,

    True there’s many ways to do it, the fact that my text should stay editable tends to use the category description…

    Something like “if category description = true” then show message. If empty, show nothing. I might try this way!

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