WP Subdomains Release Status – 0.6.0

Ok, sorry for lack of updates but I’ve been quite enjoying my holiday. Anyway, on the flight to Malaysia a few days back I hacked in the last few updates for this release. I just need to do some testing on my development site and then stick it live on this site for 24 hours to check all is ok. Once that is done I will make the release.

Also I’ve decided it’s no longer going to be 0.5.3 but 0.6.0. Thrilling stuff hey.

I didn’t quite get all the new features in I’d planned. The main one being the ability to remove the category base from category urls (e.g. http://travels.mydomain.com/category/china to http://travels.mydomain.com/china). The reason for this is because the code to make the plugin compatible with permalinks with %category% in led to a number of changes in the URL rewrite code. The category base removal would also produce a number of changes. I wanted to make sure the first set of changes were all good and safe before making the second to save confusion over where the problem lies should there be one.

The changes that will be in 0.6.0 are:

• Add author subdomains
  • Turn this on and http://alex.mydomain.com will show all the posts written by alex. Just like going to http://www.mydomain.com/author/alex.
• Keep links to non-subdomain pages that are not tied to a category on the subdomain we’re viewing
  • For example if you have an about page, and you’re on the http://movies.mydomain.com subdomain. Then the link to about will be http://movies.mydomain.com/about, therefore keeping the reader from being bounced back to the main site.
• Date Archive filter
  • let you choose to have date archives filtered down to the category or author of the subdomain you’re on. Will also show the correct count in the date archive widget.
• Added plugin settings options to turn on/off:
  • All Plugin Functionality
  • Date Archive Filter
  • Page Subdomains
  • Author Subdomains
• Display warning and disable plugin if no permalinks setup
  • Should cut about 50% of the calls for help I get.
• Support permalinks with %category% in
  • Much needed for all the people who use /%category%/%postname or similar permalinks. I don’t use this permalink on this site so I’m relying on these users to let me know if there are any bugs in this I missed.
• Custom Link title for Category Subdomains
  • Lets you pick a custom title to appear as the link text to the category instead of the category name. One particular user should be happy with this one.

I can’t make any promises when this will be out because I need to find the time to give it a thorough test and upload it to this site. However, I expect it will be done within the next week if not sooner.