ivovic

that’s why I asked if it was notepad… notepad will pick an encoding type based on the content of the file.

use wordpad, if there’s nothing better around.

Breen… notepad?… or wordpad? or something better? confess.

this is not therapy!! 🙂

actually, this was kind-of refreshing, this little mutual-understanding thing we have going here.

Hello, my name is Ivovic, and I’m a support-o-holic.

you know, usually I’m a quick study, but for some reason I keep getting stung by this.

I thoroughly apologise to you, whooami, for ever taking exception to anything you’ve ever said… I can’t really remember what it was that made us collide once or twice, but whatever it was, I’m now thoroughly convinced yours was the sane voice in that.

back in the early 90s I did the IRC help channel thing. I cut my teeth on that, and on forums for the better part of a decade, until finally taking a 6-year sanity break.

I’m actually really disheartened that nothing’s changed.

edit: jdembowski, you’re a better person than I am.

google magpieRSS… parse your wordpress RSS feed.

I may be missing something, but I think wordpress already does everything you want out of the box.

the dynamically generated indexes you speak of, are nothing more than archive pages – on which you can choose what information is available.

every wordpress “view” (I’ll call it a view, to differentiate between pages) can be output in any way you like, either as a full post, which you’re accustomed to, or any part thereof.

So it’s insanely easy to make lists of your content sorted in any way you like, and filtered in any way you want. Moreover

if you’ve looked at even the default theme, you’ll notice that the main content appears before any sidebar garbage, so your source-ordered stuff is as you like it.

I’m just not sure what exactly you want ‘handled’.

I would never suggest that someone as serious about their web project as yourself should pick an off-the-shelf theme and stick to it, so beyond the basic framework of what’s offered by wordpress, I’d suggest you get your hands dirty customising any theme you start off with, to your own liking.

That’s often as simple as cutting and pasting some stuff around.

unless you’re expecting for someone to spend the next 3 months of their life tied to a 420 page thread talking you through the whole thing, perhaps you can think of a more specific question to ask?

then:

1) ask google for a plugin
2) ask the search here
3) ask google again, but with better keywords
4) come post about it here if none of that helps.

The secret to getting great support is knowing how to ask an excellent question.

Before you get too upset, allow for the possibility that while I may not have answered your current question, I might have helped you with every question you’ll ever have from now on.

well, the good news is there are plenty of themes to choose from.