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FCC Cats

FCC Cats Manage the adoptable cats at Fancy Cat Cafe. Add and update each cat's profile — including photo, age, sex, arrival date, and best trait — and mark them as adopted with a success story from their new family. Display cats and adoption stories anywhere on your site using shortcodes.

by Lou Griffith · github.com/lougriffith/fcc-cats · website

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/lougriffith/fcc-cats/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
Updates itself. It ships its own updater, so new versions appear under Dashboard → Updates.
Readme github.com/lougriffith/fcc-cats ↗

Requires: WordPress 6.0+, PHP 8.0+

Manage the adoptable cats at Fancy Cat Cafe. Add and update each cat's profile — including photo, age, sex, arrival date, and best trait — and mark them as adopted with a success story from their new family. Display cats and adoption stories anywhere on your site using shortcodes.

Features

  • Custom post type fcc_cat for managing individual cat profiles
  • Fields: name, photo, age, sex, arrival date
  • Cat Traits taxonomy — tag-style, single-select with optional emoji (e.g. 🎾 Very Playful)
  • Adoption toggle that reveals: adoption date, adopter name, adoption photo, and success story
  • Admin list view showing Status, Date Added, and Best Trait columns — sortable
  • Frontend shortcodes for displaying adoptable cats and success stories
  • GitHub-powered auto-updates via WordPress admin

Shortcodes

[fcc_cats]

Displays a grid of cats.

Attribute Options Default Description
status adoptable, adopted, all adoptable Which cats to show
columns 2, 3, 4 3 Grid columns
limit any number -1 (all) Max number of cats to show

Examples:

[fcc_cats]
[fcc_cats status="adoptable" columns="4"]
[fcc_cats status="adopted" limit="6"]
[fcc_cats status="all" columns="2"]

[fcc_success_stories]

Displays a grid of adopted cats with their success stories.

Attribute Options Default Description
columns 2, 3 2 Grid columns
limit any number -1 (all) Max stories to show

Examples:

[fcc_success_stories]
[fcc_success_stories limit="4" columns="2"]

Admin Usage

Adding a Cat

  1. Go to Cats → Add New Cat
  2. Enter the cat's name in the title field
  3. Upload a photo using the Cat Photo sidebar panel
  4. Fill in Age, Sex, and Arrived date in the Cat Details panel
  5. Select a trait from the Best Trait sidebar panel (or add a new one)
  6. Publish

Marking as Adopted

  1. Open the cat's edit screen
  2. Check "This cat has been adopted" in the Cat Details panel
  3. Fill in the adoption date, adopter name, upload an adoption photo, and write their success story
  4. Update the post

Managing Traits

Go to Cats → Traits to add, edit, or remove traits. Each trait can have an emoji set from the edit screen.

GitHub Updates

This plugin updates directly through the WordPress admin via GitHub Releases.

To release an update:

  1. Bump the version in fcc-cats.php
  2. Push changes to GitHub
  3. Create a new Release tagged v1.x.x with the plugin .zip attached
  4. WordPress will detect the update within 12 hours

See GITHUB-SETUP.md for full instructions.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md