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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Starting to dislike WordPressThis dude is killin’ me…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Custom Sitebar per Page – solution?Kafkaesqui :: your code was good.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Custom Sitebar per Page – solution?Sounds like a great opportunity to charge the “client” a hefty monthly hand-holding fee.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Custom Sitebar per Page – solution?If the client is dumb how are they going to make their own sidebars?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Site Critique Wantedhelp.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Custom Sitebar per Page – solution?Why not just put some conditions in your sidebar.php? If you were unconfortable putting ALL your code in sidebar you could even break it out into individual php files and then conditional include them.
‘<?php if (strpos($_SERVER[REQUEST_URI],’gallery’) { ?>’
‘ <!– do something… –>’
‘ <?php include(“gallery_sidebar.php”) ?>’
‘<?php } ?>’
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Site Critique WantedToo wide. Without sufficient proximity or some other designed divider or congolmerating device (like a shaded column or a vertical separator) the bright white text spaced out all over the jet black background isn’t workin’ for ya.
Mute the bright white. Narrow it down (800 recommended but you can let it increase in size to fit the browser). Better wrap your text areas so that things look cohesive.
Keep trying… I like darker themes. 🙂
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: WordPress Defacement by AriP_ReCAAll your posts are belong to us.
It’s always entertaining when the alarms go off about WP. 🙂 And every one of these issues probably has a dozen topics of its own throughout this site.
[Moderated: PLEASE don’t post politically charged stuff…. PLEASE.]
Check the last week’s posts.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Cut content but want “more…” tag to display.View your page source and find out if maybe your style is hiding the more link.
Fyi, in IE your main content gets pushed below your sidebar.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: New WordPress Theme MK-Blix(1.3) Releasedresiny :: weren’t we just having this conversation? 😉
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Cut content but want “more…” tag to display.Well, if you don’t need to do this automatically you can manually stick ‘<!–more–>’ in your post. You may have already known this… but I went a LONG time without that little piece of knowledge… and I, like it sounds you are doing, was writing all kinds of special php functionality to display so many characters (which broke the style half the time) and it was a migrain!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: When is a “new” theme new?Phu does great work… no doubt about it.
If I were to take existing themes and do the usual 15% changes to the CSS (with maybe a new banner) I would have an absolute field day! I just can’t bring myself to do it. I’d rather take a gorgeous open source non-WP template and port it over… because then I’m giving the community something entirely new that they didn’t have before.
I dunno… I may try tweaking some existing themes and seeing what you guys think.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: When is a “new” theme new?V, as always you seem to know all. 🙂 I wasn’t even blogging when that thread was going so it’s great you pointed it out. Yeah, it was good to read that some of this discussion has been going on already.
It just really came upon my mind when I saw some “new” themes recently that were more like the description in the thread of what is NOT a new theme… (boy, that was worded awkwardly)… for instance, merely changing fonts, colors, widths, and banner image really shouldn’t be a new theme… you’d even have to really stretch it to put your own name on it in front of the original author.
But if you moved the sidebar to the other side… added some original theme images… added a menu effect… wrote a slick archives or links template… then we’re getting into the realm of a “new” theme based off of an old one.
And all of that is pretty much what was said in that previous thread…. along with some ideas for what they called “flavors”. Interesting.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Check out my BlixMac ThemeI think the theme looks nice, too… but it brings up a good question.
How much does one have to modify an existing theme before it become a “new version” of that theme, or just a tweaked existing version? For instance, my theme I’m using now started off as Blix but I’ve slowly transmogrified it into a distinctly seperate beast.
I like your theme, don’t get me wrong… but it just looks like Blix to me.
Somebody slap me if I’m sounding too anal. 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Soul Purpose WebsiteI think you’re asking the wrong question. That kind of stuff is web development and programming. It can be done with or without WordPress. WP is a tool that automates and simplifies many content management aspects of keeping a blog. In some ways… the site you linked is a blog, but not really. I’m sure they have many more customizations than simply WP would provide for in order to maintain a site like that… say nothing of the special navigation and menus.
You could do that with WP alone, but intuitively updating all the different categories of content would be a nightmare… but you could do it. A better way would be to code an additional tier (think of it as a really big plugin) to help manage different types of content on the different pages…