When redeveloping my blog, I spent a lot of time researching how different sites are using WP, and discovered it’s much more than just a blogging program and has become a viable competitor with other CMS applications. However, I’ve refrained from using it sitewide at this time, but have made the blog the “flagship” of my site, blending both style and interaction/functionality through design and 20+ plugins. On the user side, Lightbox, Extended Live Archives, Random Images (which draw from my Pixelpost-based photoblog), WordTube, and Audio Player. Many other plugins running on the backside pull it all together.
I went through several design ideas before settling on one fairly simple, throwback theme using patterns and colors reminiscent of the great 50s and 60s, yet (hopefully) not overbearing to the multimedia content of the site – all which degrade load times.
What’s my favorite part of the theme? Gotta say the CSS rollover menu in the upper right-hand. It wasn’t fun struggling through design and placement coding, but I’m very pleased with the outcome. I toyed with using mouseover sound effects, but determined I’d rather validate XHTML instead.
So now, I come to my fellow developers/users for feedback – the good, the bad, the ugly. Obviously, I want to improve that which can be. Your thoughts?
Thanks!
dKaye
If I enable permalinks on my WordPress 2.3.1 install on www.domain.com (I can also use domain.com), it works. How I have things setup is, for testing, I have www (or just domain.com) – domain.com/folder/wptesting directory, it works.
However, using a different domain – dev.domain.com, the permalinks fail. I get a “page not found” error. Permalinks work on 2.2, and the work on www.domain.com and domain.com; not on dev.domain.com.
Can anyone shed some light?
Thank you,
Drew
I know I should edit some files from the wp-includes folder but everything I tried didn’t work.
Thanks!
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wp_tag_cloud(“smallest=8&largest=25&unit=px&number=15&exclude=512-links”);
I tried with some others tags but nothing works. Allways showing all the tags (or the 15 tags as indicated by the number param)…
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