We have managed to make Category Page out *before* WordPress 2.5 itself (ok, that’s not a big deal), so we have a little more room to debug and fix it before releasing officially. While I work on the new themepack to bundle with the plugin, you can download the 2.5 development version from this page and try for yourself. It works with WordPress 2.1.3 and greater, even if the target is 2.5.
2.5 changelog summary:
- support for upcoming WordPress 2.5 (alongside 2.3.x, 2.2.x and 2.1.3 support).
- better Category » Page connection handling
- revised connection management pages
- some heavy code cleaning
But there’s one more thing (yes, I enjoy stevenotes).
One of the major misunderstandings about this plugin was that people expected it to place a list of posts from a certain category in their pages. I had hard times to explain that Category Page just did the opposite. While fixing it for 2.5, I really got sick of those questions, and I’ve implemented a small content tag,
[catlist=xx]. Using this tag in your page/post, obviously replacing xx with the ID of your favourite category, will display the widely-requested-list-of-posts. You can also tweak the default settings in the Category Page settings page.
I hope that this will solve a bunch of issues, and makes some people happy. By the way, if it does, consider to make me happy too, with a small donation :-)
