Anime Dropdown Widget

Hur­ray, a metab­log­ging post again! This time regard­ing cod­ing and not writ­ing though. In the anib­lo­go­sphere, the most blogs have posts about anime (of course). Some are tagged by series names, some are in spe­cial cat­egor­ies. I myself prefer tags.

But when the blog becomes lar­ger and cov­ers more and more titles, tags and cat­egor­ies lists may become a layout-killer. The solu­tion: drop­downs.Word­Press has a drop­down wid­get built-in, but it’s no good because:

1. It’s only for categories
2. It lists all cat­egor­ies des­pite whether they are anime or some­thing else

As you see it’s not very com­fort­able, or rather it doesn’t ful­fill our task. Cre­at­ing own wid­gets in Word­Press is easy with a bit of PHP know­ledge, how­ever, list­ing the tags as we want it, and more import­antly, fil­ter­ing out the series, is much more difficult.

I made a Word­Press plu­gin for down­load, but you can also read the tech­nique on the second page of the post.

Require­ments

There are only a few requirements:

• Word­Press 2.8 or higher
• You want to tag posts with anime series, not categorize.

Down­load

For those of us who are dis­liked by codes, I’ve pre­pared a plu­gin which just needs to be installed to work. Enjoy.

Install­a­tion

As any other plu­gin, you just need to upload it to your plu­gins dir­ect­ory and activ­ate it. After that you just have to:

1. Tag posts as always, just, on the post edit pages you put your tags not in the ‘Post Tags’ box but ‘Anime’ box which is below
2. Place the wid­get into the side­bar (‘Appear­ance’ -> ‘Widgets’)
3. That’s all!

How it works

Simple as hell. It cre­ates a cus­tom tax­onomy ‘Anime’, and… that’s it. Everything else is as simple, thus doesn’t need fur­ther explanation.

Feed­back

By the way, you should be thank­ful as I dis­covered this only yes­ter­day, and could keep it an only-Anime² fea­ture. But I’m soft-hearted. Feed­back appre­ci­ated, as well as bug reports.

Donate

This is a free plu­gin. And this is a great plu­gin. As everything Eugen cre­ates for you. If you want to thank him for his work and encour­age him to do more, he’s accept­ing dona­tions: and you decide, how much money you want to send him.