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1. TonyGeer
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hi I recently finished futurist.com, it's a customized K2 (www.getk2.com) theme. Has over 150 pages.

   I used lots of page templates and RunPHP was a godsend.

   Any comments of crits?

2. snipeseye
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   The first thing that I really liked is the menu. Is it handed coded or automatically inserted under those parent pages, because I actually want to create a dropdown menu. There is one problem with the menu, when you click on the parent page, it goes to the first child page. I would advise you to create a new page with links to the child pages or to try and remove the link.

   Also when I went to the contact us page, there were links to the categories and archives of the blog, I feel it is missly placed.

   Another thing I like was the breadcrumb trail, are you using a plugin for it?

3. jackosh
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   like it very much. interesting content, too!

   my only suggestion would make the home "tab" click-able, as well as the contact "tab". having the subnavigational menu there is useless.

4. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Very nice! Are you going to release it?

5. TonyGeer
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hi guys, thanks for all the comments.

   Right now all of the main tabs (i.e. not the flyouts) are clickable, but I changed the cursor so that they wouldn't appear to be so. I also purposely put it to go to the first child page, because I really dont expect people to be clicking on it.

   The navigation has to be manually added, and the breadcrumbs are partly manual: Home --> [grab page name].

   Thanks for the heads up about the contact page's sidebar, I'll fix that.

   The theme isnt for public consumption :)

6. Jharis
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Fantastic work.

   don (el paso)

7. snipeseye
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Okay, another thing I forgot to ask you was, how did you create the archives of articles, does the page itself have to be updated or have you used php for it to automatically update under the side headings?

   Anyways, if I spot anything else that is wrong I will inform you. If you ever figure out how to automatically create submenus please tell me. :)

8. TonyGeer
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Thanks Don!

   Snipe, all of the links for articles in the Articles and Archives pages are updated automatically - I'm using wp_list_pages to generate them.

   For example, when I create a new article, Page parent could be:

   Articles --> Space and Science

   And it will automatically appear under the corrent heading on the correct page.

   I had to use RunPHP to allow the PHP wordpress functions to be run.

9. snipeseye
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   So, are the articles posted as part of a blog, but they are archived under articles and archives using RunPHP and in the blog the catergories of the articles are missed out from the loop?

   If that is the case, I think it would be good if you has a plugin or something in the sidebar to show recent articles, since it is quite hard to find them and therefore they may not recieve as many hits.

   Also, try and keep it seperate from the blog, maybe even take the blog away as a whole and just have a loop on the frontpage with some kind of news or something like 'Glen speaking at....' Or convert the articles to the blog because after a year or two, if the website is regularly updated, in my opinion, people will get confused between the articles and the blog.

   But do what you think is right. :)

10. TonyGeer
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Thanks snipe, I'll think about everything that you said.

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