[wp-hackers] How can I filter on post count for categories?

[Joost de Valk]

Arent you looking for custom taxonomies? :)

L'Autre Monde wrote:
> Mike,
>
> To be clear, I am currently developping a ticket system based on 
> Wordpress.
> So I created a custom type "ticket". I have customized the admin to 
> include
> this new type and duplicated the post editor with some restrictions.
>
> The idea behind that is that I wanted to keep wordpress built-in 
> features intact.
> I didn't want to tweak the post editor. So I added another menu from 
> scratch
> with the same functionnalities as the post editor with custom fields.
>
> Now that my admin I/F looks ok, I need to be able to bring the tickets 
> with
> the posts together on the front end. It works pretty well with some 
> filtering
> on the wp_query however I am stuck on this category counter ;)
>
> I will try the suggestion from Austin, thanks ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Olivier
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Schinkel" 
> <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>
> To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 7:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] How can I filter on post count for categories?
>
>
>> Olivier:
>>
>> While I haven't drilled down yet to do this I think custom post types 
>> could be a really important addition to WP either as a plugin or  
>> better yet to core. As there are so many assumptions in WordPress 
>> that  assume "post" that doing as a plugin will be an uphill battle 
>> which is  why it would really need to be in core.  If not in core too 
>> many other  plugins won't support the notion of custom post types.
>>
>> I have a plugin I'm using for custom URLs that would fits well with 
>> custom post types. It's not yet ready to be released because it  
>> doesn't yet have an admin console interface and also because it 
>> still  has a lot of areas where it is not robust but I have been 
>> using it  with the More Fields plugin which gives kind of a 
>> psuedo-custom post  types capability.
>>
>> Anyway, the reason I email is to ask why not use More Fields because  
>> it works albeit not using wp_posts->post_type but instead wp_postmeta-
>> >option_name="mf_post_type", and also to see how many other people
>> are interested in a custom post types in core?
>>
>> -Mike Schinkel
>> WordPress Custom Plugins
>> http://mikeschinkel.com/custom-wordpress-plugins/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jun 3, 2009, at 1:16 PM, L'Autre Monde wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am currently writing a plugin which creates a custom post type.  
>>> When the category list widget is displayed, the number of posts per 
>>> categories only includes the posts with a post type of "post". 
>>> Also,  if a category only has the customer post type, it isn't 
>>> listed as it  is seen as an empty one.
>>>
>>> I have tried to filter on the get_category and list_cats to modify  
>>> the category->count for the category but it doesn't work :(
>>>
>>> Any idea for this please? :)
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>> Olivier
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