ivovic

look in the root directory – make sure your FTP client is set to display hidden files (or ‘dot files’)

people think a content management system is rigid, or something… some are, but most are not.

WordPress certainly isn’t rigid.

Don’t think in terms of what wordpress can and can’t do… that’s only going to lead to threads like this where you ask if wordpress can do something it’s not even responsible for.

Instead, think of wordpress as a back-end system for writing content and storing it in a database. It does that quite well and with a high usability score, as evidenced by the mountain of technical illiterates writing content.

The rest is really up to you. The presentation of that content is done with an extremely flexible templating system. It’s so flexible because it’s not really a system at all… more of a toolbox, and even then, it’s not limited to the tools available, you can add more tools anytime with a little PHP.

Anyone with some broad PHP skills can design any kind of website (mostly with HTML and CSS) and then use a few select and not particularly complex snippits of PHP to call a variety of wordpress functions into play, *anywhere* in that design they see fit, and if you don’t like the wordpress functions for extracting content, you really don’t have to use them.

Chances are you’ll find most of them useful, but if you really need your templates to do something unusual, then you’re just free to make it happen.

That’s why I like wordpress over any of the CMS’ out there with a fixed templating language.

So, in summary, wordpress handles the data entry part – if you can get over the nomenclature of everything being somewhat blog-related, then you can see that a database record is a database record, right?

A post can be a widget in a catalogue, and with that a category can be an index of almost anything. You can create a template to display the same “posts” either as full articles, or as songs in a playlist, it’s completely up to you how much of each post you extract, and where you extract it. The nice thing about it is that you can filter everything by simply attaching ‘categories’ to your posts….

Lets say you DO really want to display a playlist of songs along side your articles. If you file a post under the Song cateogory, your template can extract only those posts and display them as songs – while treating everything else as an article.

Now lets say you also want to use wordpress as a makeshift CRM… no problem, just add a “contacts” category, with subcategories “clients”, “suppliers”, “logistics” etc… and proceed to post contact sheets to those categories using completely ad-hoc custom fields of “address” and “phone number”…

now you’ve got articles, songs and contacts all of which look nothing like each other simply because your “contacts” page has been templated to look like an address book.

Want to turn a contact into a song? easy, just put it into the Song category – in fact, if you want, you can have it be both things at the same time.

There’s nothing more flexible than having no rules.

I hope that’s helped a bit… perhaps it’s caused more confusion, but I think that’s OK, because confusion is the first step in dropping the shackles of nomenclature. Just forget that your data is traditionally supposed to be a blog post, and you can do anything with it.

no no, you were quite clear, the original poster was not (at least not to me).

do it the old (pre-2.5) way.

$wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish'");

I did read that… but presumably you’ll turn that back on eventually… and the form will still be there.

what’s she supposed to do? give you a different answer, just because you don’t like the real one?

if you’re using editor A and getting problem A, don’t you think you should start with a fresh file and try editor B?… and then C, D, and the rest of the FCUKing alphabet before you claim you’ve tried everything?

only an idiot does the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.

the IE Developer Toolbar is also a good idea to keep around.

kwalerow, use FTP to connect and remove the wp-config.php files from both sites ASAP. You’ll need to change the passwords, but there’s no reason you should just leave the details sitting there for the next person to trip over.

by the way, you still have a reference to one of the sites in your original post – get rid of that while you can still edit the post 🙂