binarymoon

Oh yeah – it looks like comment were broken on som pages of my blog so no comments have been getting through. Anyone who has tried commenting should try again. I haven’t been deleting things – honest ??

I don’t know about a huge step further. The idea has been around for a while (see K2 by Binary Bonsai). I just tried to do things in a slightly different way.

I hadn’t really considered translations. I did the simple things (using the _e() command) but didn’t consider a translation file. If you want to email me (ben at binarymoon dot co dot uk) with a translation I will look at adding some sort of language selection to the admin panel.

Hmm – there’s no comment appeared on the blog, not in moderation either.

I’m quite happy to do any support though. What did you want to know?

Have a look at the control panel, you can change the colour scheme without editing any files. I think I’ll make that clearer on the blog page (UPDATE: ok – I’ve added a screenshot of the admin panel to try and make what you can change clearer).

And don’t worry about ‘tearing it apart’ – as long as it’s constructive you can say whatever you like ??

Thanks for the comments though.

Update – Move Along – nothing to see here.

I fell like a proper pillock now. Just tried it in IE and it worked fine. I really should double check things before posting problems…

Oh well – thanks for looking oriecat

hmm – and I see your post… I have upgraded since I posted this originally so maybe that fixed it.

I’m going to have to try again now – maybe I bumped this for nothing ??

Don’t know if this is important or not but I only tried it in Internet Explorer since I don’t want to clear my cookies.

I posted this two days ago so I’m guessing no-one has seen this problem before?

If that’s the case then is there somewhere I can post a bug report so that the developers can confirm or deny the existance of the problem above? I had a look at the ‘requests and feedback’ section of the faq but that’s a little light on info at the moment.

Cheers

I’ve just been looking for something just like this

IMO a better way to do it (the solution I’m now using) is to to use this

if ($comment->comment_approved == ‘0’) : ?>
<p class=”alert”>Thanks for your comment. It is currently in the moderation cue and should be visible for everyone to read soon.
<?php endif; ?>

in the comment loop. This requires no hacks to your wordpress files so will continue to work when you upgrade.

You don’t have to play with mod rewrite. As long as your host supports it and you set permissions so that files can be written it will create all of the required .htaccess stuff for you.

Permalinks are well worth using.

The main advantage is future proofing your site. If for some reason you decide to change blog software you can import your old posts and keep the same urls. Then if people bookmark your site they can still find their way to the old pages.

A title that describes the content of the page apparently improves search engine ranking. Remember that you don’t have to have the title of the page as the url. That is default but WordPress also gives you the ability to change the link to something you want to use.

?post=1 is shorter, but it makes no sense to anyone except the blogging software. You can change the permalink structure to use any format you like. Personally I went for year/month/post-title.

IMO if your webhost supports mod rewrite (the feature neccessary to do all this) then you should definately go for it. The pros outweigh any cons (and I can’t see any).

amory – thanks for that. The ‘jump to nav’ link should only be visible when you give it focus (on the pc you press tab to jump through links) – it’s mainly there for people with screen readers since the content is all first in the html. I also sorted out the massive horizontal scrolling (the same thing happened in Opera). Still haven’t seen the background problem. Will have to get onew of my Mac using friends to bring his laptop round so I can work out what the problem is.

CrystalLich – cheers ?? I normally go for fairly subtle, coordinated colours and wanted to try something a bit different.

I used the query_post command to get the first post from any category that wasn’t my links category to show on my home page.

I worked out how to do this using the article on IfElse.

https://www.ifelse.co.uk/archives/2005/04/08/query_posts-redux/

All you need to do is

<?php query_posts(‘cat=CATEGORY_NUMBER’);?>

Replacing category number with the number of the category you want to display on the homepage. You then do the loop as normal to display the rest of your blog.

I added posts_per_page=1 to only show the first post but obviously you don’t have to do that.

Ah – sorry – should have re read it the first time ??

I used the query posts thing to get the posts in the link category and then display that. The actual code from the template is

< ul>
< ?php query_posts(‘cat=4’);
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
< li>< a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” title=”Permalink for : < ?php the_title(); ?>”>< ?php the_title(); ?>< /a>< br />
< ?php endwhile; endif; ?>< br />
< li class=”rssfeed”>< a href=”https://www.binarymoon.co.uk/category/links/feed&#8221; title=”Link Blog Feed”>RSS< /a>< /li>
< /ul>

I had to add a few spaces cos it wasn’t displaying properly

“Very nice and clean – the way I like them :)”

Thanks ??

“As a matter of interest how do you do your link blog?”

I don’t understand – have you got an example?

Hey everyone. Thanks for all the nice words.

Amory – what browser are you using? I don’t see any of those problems in the browsers I have access too (IE and FireFox on the pc). I’m going to check things in Opera now to make sure it’s not that.

The jump to navigation link should be pushed off to the left rather than the right. I’m not sure what you mean about the backgroundimage problem.