Jacob McKinney

WordPress plugin for setting and displaying primary categories for posts and custom post types*.
This plugin creates a meta box on the post edit screen titled “Primary Category” containing a drop down menu populated with all categories associated with that post**. Selecting a primary category and updating the post saves this data into a custom field with a meta key of “primary-category”.
To display a list of all posts with a particular primary category, use the shortcode [primary-category name=”cat_name”] where cat_name is the name of the primary category you wish to display. If a name is not specified, the shortcode will default to all posts with “uncategorized” set as the primary category.
*Note: Custom post types must support both categories and custom fields.
**Note: As new categories are added to a post, the post must be updated before those new categories will be available for selection as a primary category.

Primary Categories

WordPress plugin for setting and displaying primary categories for posts and custom post types.

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Used alongside <code>add_shortcode</code>, Shortcake supplies a user-friendly interface for adding a shortcode to a post, and viewing and editing it from within the content editor.
Once you’ve installed the plugin, you’ll need to <a href="https://github.com/wp-shortcake/shortcake/wiki/Registering-Shortcode-UI" rel="nofollow ugc">register UI for your shortcodes</a>. For inspiration, check out <a href="https://github.com/wp-shortcake/shortcake/wiki/Shortcode-UI-Examples" rel="nofollow ugc">examples of Shortcake in the wild</a>.
To report bugs or feature requests, <a href="https://github.com/wp-shortcake/shortcake/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">please use Github issues</a>.
<h3>Running tests</h3>
We have test coverage for PHP using PHPunit, and JavaScript using Jasmine.
<h4>Running tests locally</h4>
Jasmine tests can be run using <code>grunt jasmine</code> and are also run as part of the <code>grunt scripts</code> task. To update the core WordPress files used by the Jasmine test suite, run <code>grunt updateJasmineCoreScripts --abspath="/path/to/wordpress-install"</code>.

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Shortcake makes using WordPress shortcodes a piece of cake.

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