Category Archives: Development

Update Introduces Individual Catalog Item Pages

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Zachary Segal

The latest version of CataBlog introduces a new “Public” feature, which allows you to automatically generate individual pages for every catalog item. These pages will get their own Permalink and should be considered similar to a public post or page. … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, New Features, Software Update | 58 Comments

Modifying Templates

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Zachary Segal

One of the best features that CataBlog offers is the ability to control exactly how your catalog HTML is rendered on your blog pages. It is also one of the more mysterious features for beginners, since it isn’t incredibly well … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, Support | 46 Comments

Ordering a Catalog with Multiple Categories

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Zachary Segal

So a lot of people have been requesting the ability to change the order of catalog items while viewing a single category. My first thoughts were right along with most everyone else, this would be a great feature. Now I … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, New Features, Personal Notes | 2 Comments

Development, Purpose and Direction

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Zachary Segal

So I have been struggling with where to take CataBlog and what new features to add. I am leaning towards the idea that CataBlog should concentrate on being a compliment to WordPress and its various plugins. Instead of making CataBlog … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, Personal Notes | 1 Comment

Old Database Removed in CataBlog 0.9.5

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Zachary Segal

This is a big day, CataBlog no longer is going into the WordPress database directly and making modifications. That was a bad method of creating custom content, especially since WordPress now has custom post types. All catalog items from now … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, New Features, Software Update, Support | 13 Comments

WordPress Plugin Designs and Memory Leaks

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Zachary Segal

I recently discovered that CataBlog was using more and more of PHP’s allocated memory. This meant that each page that was loaded while the CataBlog PHP Class (plugin) was activated it would use about 200k extra memory, continuously compounding on … Continue reading →

Posted in Bug Fix, Development | 5 Comments

Object Oriented WordPress Plugin Development

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Zachary Segal

I am curious about what kind of ideas and designs are out there for making your WordPress plugin follow a more object oriented approach. Most plugins I have looked at are basically a long list of functions that are hooked … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, Personal Notes, Support | 3 Comments