jademonk

Brilliant hack, and incredibly easy to implement. Running WP1.0 here, and it took no time at all. For my formatting, I just popped the entire hack into a “hollowed out” index page, and boom.
Thanks!

I implemented an “About this Site” page a few days ago in WP1. Using the admin tools, I created a new link category (“My Stuff” in this case). I went into index.php and added the link category to display (my blog currently displays separate “boxes” for each of the link categories).
I then “hollowed out” a copy of the Index.php page to remove the blog headline and content, and added some static text in the page itself. I then saved in as “about.php”. Added the link to “about.php” to the Link Category I previously created (“My Stuff”), and everything works nicely.
It’s a somewhat klugy solution to use the links category/ies as internal navigation, but the end result seems to be working fine for me.
My solution for implementaing a separate photoblog will likely build on the above, and involve a separate WP install (same database). I’ll carry over look-and-feel and use the “My Stuff” section to hope between the blogs and pages as needed. At least, that my idea this morning… ??

Well, I’ve converted over from pM to WP1.0 for a handfull of days. I can’t say that there was anything “wrong” about their software – I enjoyed using it. For me, after playing around with WP for a while before making the switch, my decision points were:
– Open source. I prefer the model; I prefer not being restricted when I search for help (some pM materials are covered by the Pro license). Not to say that pMs free license isn’t generous.
– Multiple blogs.
– I was having trouble with the TrackBack implementation in pM. It was working about 50%. WP has been fine.
There were some other features in addition.

Howdy!
I’m looking at doing the exact same thing for my blog. Unfortunately, the link doesn’t seem to be working.
Any chance of reposting it, or if anyone else has the code squirreled away somewhere, I’d much appreciate it!
Thanks!
~ Brian