digitalFAQ.com Forum - Category Posts Widget plugin updated for WordPress 3.4.2+ [DOWNLOAD]

Category Posts Widget Update:

A lot of popular WordPress plugins have not been properly updated for several years now, and contain deprecated code. While the plugin may seem "fine" when its activated in wp-admin, deprecated code often means that it's not functioning properly. This tends to only be noticed when you enable debug mode in the wp-config.php file.

Category Posts Widget gives the following errors when activated:

Code:

Notice: Undefined index: sort_by in X:\...\wp-content\plugins\category-posts\cat-posts.php on line 46

Notice: Undefined index: title_link in X:\...\wp-content\plugins\category-posts\cat-posts.php on line 72

Notice: Undefined index: date in X:\...\wp-content\plugins\category-posts\cat-posts.php on line 101    

Notice: Undefined index: excerpt in X:\...\wp-content\plugins\category-posts\cat-posts.php on line 105

Notice: Undefined index: comment_num in X:\...\wp-content\plugins\category-posts\cat-posts.php on line 109

Note that this is seen on the site itself, on pages and posts, not as an error message in the admin area.

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What Was Changed ?

... or you can make the edits yourself.

Line 46 of cat-posts.php contains incomplete code:

Code:

if ( in_array($instance['sort_by'], $valid_sort_orders) ) {

And needs to be changed to:

Code:

//  if ( in_array($instance['sort_by'], $valid_sort_orders) ) {

    if ( in_array( ( isset($instance['sort_by'] ) && $instance['sort_by'] ), $valid_sort_orders) ) {

At line 72:

Code:

if( $instance["title_link"] )

Change to:

Code:

//  if( $instance["title_link"] )

    if( ( isset($instance["title_link"] ) && $instance["title_link"] ) )

At line 101:

Code:

<?php if ( $instance['date'] ) : ?>

Change to:

Code:

<?php if (isset($instance['date']) && $instance['date']) : ?>

At line 105:

Code:

<?php if ( $instance['excerpt'] ) : ?>

Change to:

Code:

<?php if (isset($instance['excerpt']) && $instance['excerpt']) : ?>

At line 109:

Code:

<?php if ( $instance['comment_num'] ) : ?>

Change to:

Code:

<?php if (isset($instance['comment_num']) && $instance['comment_num']) : ?>

And that's it. [x2x]

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