[wp-hackers] Need advice on category link parsing

Owen Winkler ringmaster at midnightcircus.com
Tue Jan 17 15:57:05 GMT 2006


David Coppit wrote:
> AFAICT there is no hook for modifying the category list data structure
> prior to WordPress generating the HTML. As a result, I have to dissect the
> WordPress HTML, sort the categories, then rebuild the HTML. Ug!

This is another place that needs a plugin hook, but there seems to be 
many places where categories are directly queried.

It looks like categories might even be another candidate for moving into 
API like comments, since many of the places that query categories could 
be using a cache.

Owen



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