Modern Catholic – Editorial Sections archived releases
Configurable category-backed editorial sections and WordPress admin publishing shortcuts for Modern Catholic parish websites.
by Andrew T. Schmitt · github.com/twitchd8/modern-catholic-plugin-editorial-sections · website
Install
The author publishes release zips, so WP-CLI can install straight from GitHub:
wp plugin install https://github.com/twitchd8/modern-catholic-plugin-editorial-sections/releases/download/v0.2.2/modern-catholic-plugin-editorial-sections-0.2.2.zipReadme
=== Modern Catholic – Editorial Sections === Contributors: twitchd8 Requires at least: 6.8 Requires PHP: 8.2 Stable tag: 0.2.2 License: GPLv3 License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
Adds focused WordPress admin publishing shortcuts for parish editorial sections while keeping content in standard Posts.
== Description ==
Editorial Sections adds a top-level Parish Blog menu and a reusable Sections manager to the WordPress admin sidebar.
- Parish Blog opens the Sections manager directly.
- Each configured section gets a filtered Posts shortcut and a categorized Add New shortcut.
- The Sections screen can create, edit, or remove section shortcuts using a simple GUI.
- Sections are backed by standard WordPress Post categories.
- Removing a section shortcut preserves its category and Posts.
- Posts remain ordinary WordPress Posts and continue to work with category archives, Query Loop blocks, feeds, authors, and standard editorial tools.
== Installation ==
- Upload the
modern-catholic-plugin-editorial-sectionsdirectory to/wp-content/plugins/. - Activate Modern Catholic – Editorial Sections in WordPress.
- Use the Parish Blog item in the admin sidebar.
== Changelog ==
= 0.2.2 =
- Prevents separately created sections from receiving the same internal ID and replacing one another.
- Confirms that activation starts with no predefined sections or parish-specific categories.
= 0.2.1 =
- Makes Sections the main Parish Blog screen and its first submenu item.
- Removes duplicate All Posts, Add New, and Categories shortcuts from Parish Blog.
= 0.2.0 =
- Adds a GUI for creating, editing, and removing editorial sections.
- Generates filtered and categorized publishing shortcuts from saved sections.
- Starts with no predefined editorial sections; administrators create the sections their parish needs.
= 0.1.0 =
- Adds the initial Parish Blog publishing shortcuts.
Read the full README on GitHub →