buskerdog

Ok check this out:
http://tinyurl.com/28rm6h
It’s an all-CSS rollover map.

Pro:
-All-CSS format means it would probably be easy to use with WordPress in order to have little excerpt previews and things like that

Con:
-The rollover field has to be a rectangle, obviously not good for a map. But I guess you could put the state initials in the middle of each state (or down the side for the smaller states) and just have that be the rollover hot spot… So not fatal
-It would be a lot of work doing this for all 50 states, but that’s not a big deal. I have access to caffeinated drinks.

Thoughts?

thanks for the first note. Gonna fix that now.

as for the second, I thought about that but never got around to addressing it… Maybe I will. Thanks! (although looking at it again, the tops and bottoms are usually straight… maybe I’ll play with it…)

That didn’t do it.

However, it seemed that the “preview” that comes up when you switch themes was getting hung up on some sort of weird loop that doesn’t actually occur in the live site. I don’t know why that was happening (and why it didn’t happen before the name change I mentioned) but at least now it seems to be working. Weird mystery. Hopefully it’ll not cause problems in the future.

Any ideas? This is the sort of mess I feel like I can live with and then I’ll upgrade to a new WP version and it won’t recognize my theme any more or something like that.

heh should have refreshed. I had a feeling it was strip_tags but for some reason I was trying everything else first. Thanks!

Pretty crafty. Any idea how to get it to strip out <img src>s and <a href>s?

i.e. do to it something similar to what the excerpt function does.

Thanks but that doesn’t do it. That’s just the regular edit link. I’m talking about when using the “Category Page” plugin (aka page2cat)

The plugin associates a page with a category and then sticks the content of the page in the category’s archive so you can use it as an introduction before the posts are listed. I’m probably looking for a hack for the plugin since I can’t get in touch with its creator.

Well, it’s only supposed to show the last 10 posts but instead it’s looping the most recent post infinitely.

This custom theme has been working. I don’t know what changed (I set up the site, I don’t maintain it)

Here’s the home.php

<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<div id="content">
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?><?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php if ( is_home() ) query_posts('posts_per_page=2'); else query_posts(); ?>
<div class="post">
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<div class="contenttext">
<?php the_content('Read more &raquo;'); ?>
</div>

<p class="postinfo"><strong>Posted:</strong> <?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> under <?php the_category(', ') ?>.<br />
<?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?>
<a href="<?php comments_link(); ?>"><strong>Comments:</strong> <?php comments_number('none','1','%'); ?></a>
<?php edit_post_link('[e]',' | ',''); ?></p>
</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<div class="navigation">
<p><span class="prevlink"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Previous entries') ?></span>
<span class="nextlink"><?php previous_posts_link('Next entries &raquo;') ?></span></p>
</div>

<?php else : ?>
<h2>Not found!</h2>
<p>Could not find the requested page. Use the navigation menu to find your target, or use the search box below:</p>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>