Title: Top Cat
Author: bennettmcelwee
Published: <strong>12 May 2005</strong>
Last modified: 27 May 2005

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# Top Cat

 By [bennettmcelwee](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bennettmcelwee/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/topcat.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://mg.wordpress.org/plugins/topcat/#installation)
 * [Development](https://mg.wordpress.org/plugins/topcat/#developers)

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## Description

Top Cat allows you to specify a main category for your posts. Even though WordPress
posts can have more than one category, you may want to specify which of them is 
the main category for each post. Top Cat lets you do this and also provides template
tags for displaying the main category.

Using style sheets, you can then apply different styling to posts based on their
main category, even if they belong to the same set of categories. For an example,
see my home page at http://www.thunderguy.com/bennett/

## Installation

 1. Copy topcat.php into your WordPress plugins directory (wp-content/plugins).
 2. Log in to WordPress Admin. Go to the Plugins page and click Activate for Top Cat.
 3. Note that the administration functions should work on most modern browsers. I will
    add universal support soon.

## FAQ

  What is this good for?

Suppose you have a post about the Cannes Film Festival, and another about a French
film. Both might be in the “France” and “Films” categories, but perhaps you’d want
to put the film post mainly in the “Films” category and the Cannes post in the “
France” category.

Using Top Cat’s template tags, you can then style the posts differently based on
their main categories. For example, see my home page at http://www.thunderguy.com/
bennett/

  I don’t see the radio buttons on the admin screen!

The administration functions of Top Cat currently don’t work on all browsers, especially
older ones. I plan add universal support in the near future.

  How did you add the radio buttons to the admin screen?

Have a look at the code… It’s slightly tricky because Windows Internet Explorer 
works differently to the way you might expect.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Top Cat” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ bennettmcelwee ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bennettmcelwee/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/topcat/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/topcat/), or subscribe to
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## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.2**
 *  Last updated **21 taona ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/topcat/)
 * Tags
 * [category](https://mg.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category/)[main](https://mg.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/main/)
   [primary](https://mg.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/primary/)[single](https://mg.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/single/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://mg.wordpress.org/plugins/topcat/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ bennettmcelwee ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bennettmcelwee/)

## Support

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