I really do. At the very least WP 2.7 gives me something new to play with.
I loaded it on a new site I am working on and have not had too much time to dig in deep, but on first glance, I enjoy the wealth of info in the dashboard and that I can customize it, move it around. So far, my favorite feature is the ability to upload plugins right from inside the dashboard, rather than have to find the plugin, ftp, extract, then activate.
One of these days I really must upgrade this blog.
In case I need to use this again, this removes the funny >> bullets from the WP default theme. I have been wracking my brain trying to find the css to take these out.
This post is more for me than anyone else, I keep forgetting this template tag:
<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>
and I need to put it somewhere that I will not misplace it.
I need need need a shopping cart for clients who only have a few items to sell. I really like WP E-Commerce (though it is buggy and bugs me often, as it does not work (no matter what they say) with WP 2.6), but I also want something that works outside of Wordpress.
Well, I was inspired. I don’t know where the bright green came from, but I like it. I learned a new trick along the way assisted by tooltips from BlogOhBlog.com and Floating List Items from AListApart.com. The result is the list with teeny icons (thanks to FamFamFam) in my header. Quite lovely if I do say so. Oh, and I used the Wordpress Sandbox theme to build my design.
I must admit I am excited about Chrome, but after taking it for a spin or two I am not ready to switch away from Firefox. I am going to keep watching it though and see what else they come up with.
There is this moderator on the Wordpress Support Forums who gets really annoyed with folks searching for answers to their question when said searchers do not use the right geek-speak. It really gets on my nerves.
I had to read thru a *lot* of rants by the above-mentioned person to find a template that shows posts from only one category on a static Wordpress page. Beautiful! And it works! For some reason Wordpress does not make it terribly simple to do this. Maybe I am not geek enough to “get” why it shouldn’t be done. But, I have a client who wants it, it makes sense to me, so thank you to Monika from http://www.texto.de
Again, on my crusade to prove to the world that Wordpress is much more than “just for bloggers”. I am developing a site that needs to have private pages and I was advised to use Joomla. Well, having used my share of Joomla, I wanted to give it a go with Wordpress.
I found a thread on the Wordpress forums that explains how to make a page hidden using Role Manager and a template for hidden pages. You will have to read it yourself, I am mostly posting it here so I can always find it.
One thing I will say is that the login form does not work. I modified the code so that it works for me, I think it was redirecting wrong.
<form name="loginform" id="loginform" action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/wp-login.php" method="post"> <label>Username</label>
<input name="log" id="user_login" class="input" size="20" tabindex="10" type="text" /> <label>Password</label>
<input name="pwd" id="user_pass" class="input" size="20" tabindex="20" type="password" />
<p class="forgetmenot"><label>
<input name="rememberme" id="rememberme" value="forever" tabindex="90" type="checkbox" /> Remember Me</label>
<p class="submit"> <input name="wp-submit" id="wp-submit" value="Log In" tabindex="100" type="submit" /> <input name="redirect_to" value="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>" type="hidden" /></p>
<input name="testcookie" value="1" type="hidden" /> </form>