gambit37

I’ve just this evening put live the new version of my portfolio/blog, all powered by WordPress. The blog part is still ‘bloggy’ looking, but the rest is more like a traditional portfolio website:

http://www.friskdesign.com/

OK, well your situation is a bit different and I apologise if I sounded a bit harsh. My point of view is based on the building of commercial and not-for profit professional sites where music simply isn’t the done thing.

What I mean is you would build your whole website in Flash.

Flash doesn’t have the concept of ‘pages’ — you effectively build an application that’s self contained and does everything in there, including playing music when it starts — the music can be controlled however you like. The Flash app just sits on a single webpage. If you’re building a normal kind of text based website, just forget about Flash, it’s not designed for building accessible, usable and seo friendly sites and it definitely doesn’t have a place in blogging, unless you’re using it to power audio/video or animated content.

What exactly do you need background music for?

I needed a good pointer on how to display image attachments for posts from a particular category, and am very thankful for the function posted by ‘mores’ above. I made some minor change so that I can query just the category I want and also to remove the link on each image as this is just a slideshow of the full size images:

function categoryImages($size=large,$catID) {
	$posts=query_posts('cat='.$catID);
	foreach( $posts as $post ) {
		if ( $images = get_children(array(
			'post_parent' => $post->ID,
			'post_type' => 'attachment',
			'numberposts' => -1,
			'post_mime_type' => 'image',)))
		{
			foreach( $images as $image ) {
				$attachmenturl=wp_get_attachment_url($image->ID);
				$attachmentimage=wp_get_attachment_image( $image->ID, $size );
				echo $attachmentimage;
			}
		} else {
			echo "No Images";
		}
	}
}

The function to place in your theme template is:

<?php categoryImages('large',22); ?>

…or whatever your category number is.

I just got a notify about 2.6 being released and was looking at the screenshot on the blog posting which shows the categories and tags have been moved back to the sidebar.

Can anyone clarify this?

EDIT: Bugger, never mind, I see that the screenshot is for the Press This! bookmarklet, not Write. 🙁

(Also disappointed to see that “The 2.5 branch will no longer be maintained so everyone is encouraged to upgrade” — WP upgrade policy is getting ridiculous!)

Start here I think:

http://trac.wordpress.org/

I really feel for you. I build fully accessible websites as it’s something I feel very strongly about, and I am getting more and more alarmed at the inaccessible JavaScript based junk that’s creeping into web apps without any kind of fall back for accessible alternatives.

It’s especially alarming to see companies such as Happy Cog and Automattic being involved in this slippery slide — they both advocate web standards (indeed Zeldman, Happy Cog founder, also founded the Web Standards Project) and good accessibility is accepted to be part of web standards.

I don’t know what the hell is going on anymore in the web development world. Some people call it progress, I call it madness.

I agree and we’ve had this discussion already. If you want to add your voice to where it will actually make a difference, do it in Trac:

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6315

WP developers don’t read this forum apparently (so we recently learned), so unfortunately making these kinds of comments here is largely pointless.