Tdude

Sorry I don’t understand. Can you explain again?
/T

Well, the answers for your first post are
1.yes
2.conditional yes/no*
3.yes
4.no

1. It’s fairly easy to set up different categories and different styles to them in WP. It’s really up to you how you want your content. You have to read up on that in the codex.wordpress.com

2.*I’m not sure about the user, but you could have
“your name”
“Your Name”
“YOUR NAME”
etc

3.No problems. Create a page for each category or simply put something like this in your header.php:

‘<?php if ( in_category(‘3’) ){ ?>
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/style-one.css” type=”text/css” media=”screen” />
<?php } elseif ( in_category(‘4’) ) { ?>
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/style-two.css” type=”text/css” media=”screen” />
<?php } ?>’

I was new to WP a few months ago too 😉

Not bad!
Maybe more icons instead of repeating headers and such would increase legibility. A tighter…err, narrower, main column would be easier for the eyes to follow. That’s 2 things 😉

This is a site I would like to come back to and hopefully many with me, hence the thoughts about icons.
/T

Hi there! I did that for one of my wp projects. I use the “page slug” parameter to get an id for each link to replace it in css with an image. There might be a better way and it includes hacking a few lines of php, but so far it hasn’t caused any errors that I know of.
If you’re interested you could do the following:
In WP 2.1 Open wp-includes/classes.php

Around line 503 you will find the function start_el

at that very line, add the parameter $post_name

Then a few lines down where it says
“$output .= $indent . ‘<li class=”‘ . $css_class . ‘”>”
you need to add your new page slug paramter $page_name in an id or class tag to control it via css. Most of the time I hide the original text with a span tag to make it search friendly, but that’s up to you of course.

The whole start element function looks like this in my file from line 503:

function start_el($output, $page, $depth, $current_page, $args, $post_name) {
		if ( $depth )
			$indent = str_repeat("t", $depth);
		extract($args);

		$css_class = 'page_item';

		$_current_page = get_page( $current_page );
		if ( $page->ID == $current_page )
			$css_class .= ' current_page_item';
		elseif ( $_current_page && $page->ID == $_current_page->post_parent )
			$css_class .= ' current_page_parent';

		// $output .= $indent . '<li class="' . $css_class . '"><a href="' . get_page_link($page->ID) . '" title="' . attribute_escape($page->post_title) . '">' . $page->post_title . '</a>';
		// fixed by Tdude to give an id for the css
		// observe extra variable $post_name initiating function
		$output .= $indent . '<li class="' . $css_class . '" id="' . attribute_escape($page->post_name) . '"><a href="' . get_page_link($page->ID) . '" title="' . attribute_escape($page->post_title) . '"><span>' . $page->post_title . '</span></a>';

		if ( !empty($show_date) ) {
			if ( 'modified' == $show_date )
				$time = $page->post_modified;
			else
				$time = $page->post_date;

			$output .= " " . mysql2date($date_format, $time);
		}

		return $output;
	}

I tried to get this answer in the forums a few weeks back and I think I’ve posted my solution, but you know how it is…soo hard to find 😉
Best wishes,
T

is_page seems to work fine: See http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#A_PAGE_Page

Hmmm. I’ve upgraded all my 6-7 sites to 2.1. All MY OWN php hacks were of course terminated and I’m still having some issues, but considering how little time I put in for 2.1 I think it’s running great! How much more time did you spend on your 2.05 vs. 2.1? It could be months…
Consider that for a second and send some thank you’s to all the gals n’ guys sweating what should be your dirty code work.
Just a thought from a stormy Åre.
/T

Sure there is. Check your settings under user/profile
/T