luhmann

The latest nightly build fixes the category bug with ecto, but introduces (?) a new one. Now, when posting from ecto, posts are not properly assigned a “post slug”, which means that if you are using permalinks for postname, they have no permalink!!! I have to go into the edit menu and add the post slugs manually after posting from ecto.
Cheers.

I’m planning on doing something along these lines with WordSmith:
https://www.bradchoate.com/weblog/2003/07/15/movable-type
I don’t think it should be too hard, once they iron the bugs out of the category permalinks
https://www.ads-software.com/support/3/3298
Basically, all you need to do is to set the template to only show one post per page.
The only thing I need to figure out how to do is to create a menu that will automatically show all the posts for the current (sub) category. The way I would like it to work is that when you click on a category, instead of showing you all the items in that category in the body of the page, it drops down a menu of the titles of all the posts in that category, or perhaps brings you to a “default” post for that category (i.e. “index”).
Then there is one more step, which would be to integrate a blog into the site!!! I figure I’ll set up a second WordPress blog at a sub-domain of my site, say blog.mysite.com and then use some hack to display the latest posts from that blog on the main page of my “static” wordpress site.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!!!

Thanks. These are great suggestions. I like being able to only specify those things I want to be “different” – and using category IDs should avoid problems with subcategories, etc. I’ll just add note markup to the CSS reminding me which IDs go with with categories. And this will allow me to add this stuff slowly. Right now I still need to work on the basic default look of the site.

I hope this can be fixed soon, as it is integral to the way I envision laying out the web site I am working on. Glad to know its on the todo list!

Great. I’m glad to hear that this is being worked on!

Yes – this looks like exactly the kind of thing I wanted. I’ll have to test it out. Ideally, if a category-specific style sheet doesn’t exist, I’d like it to revert to the default stylesheet.
I’m also worried about sub-categories. If a sub-category is films/name of film then does the way WP refers to this create problems for naming the file? I know slashes can be a problem for code.
I wish I was better at PHP code, but I’m only capable of tweaking code, not writing it myself.
Thanks!

Thanks for explaining. This won’t work for me, since I want the whole site to look different depending on the category, not just the content of the post itself. For instance, if there is a banner photo and color scheme for the site, then each category would have a different banner photograph and matching color scheme.
I may actually need to have different templates for each category as well, although I’m not sure if this is possible. I would rather keep everything in one blog if possible, although I imagine I could also set up multiple blogs and link them together. I know this is possible in Nucleus, so I’m wondering if I shouldn’t just be using Nucleus instead of WordPress. The thing is, I find Nucleus’ templates very difficult to modify and edit to my needs. Looking at WordPress, it seems simpler. But maybe too simple for my needs…

How do you do it without CSS?
Since you read the other posts, then you know the basic idea – I would like to assign a category to a particular film she has made and then make it so that all the posts in this category had a unique “look” associated with that film. I thought CSS would be the easiest way to do this. I don’t want a user-run style switcher, I want to be the one controlling how it looks – accoring to each category.. (Actually, sub categories, since I’m using this feature in the latest nightly build – with all films listed under the “film category.”)

A couple of things:
(1) The option %category% seems to exist, but it isn’t included on the permalink options page. It should be added there.
(2) Once added, it seems to work, except that the peramlink to an individual post appears with %category% in the link, rather than the parsed actual category corresponding to that value.
(3) I would like to remove “category” from category links altogether. So:
https://www.mysite.com/category/the actual category/post-name.php
appeared as :
https://www.mysite.com/the actual category/post-name.php
without the word category.
I tried editing template-functions-category.php, but it didn’t seem to do anything. I think I need to edit the mod_rewrite rules in .htaccess, but I don’t know how to do this, and I’m not sure the automatic parser will know I’ve changed the template file…
Thanks!

OK. I see what happened with the last problem. When updating the categories, I hit “save” instead of publish. Even though the “publish” tag was checked, it changed the status so that it was no longer listed as “published” and so it disappeared. By hitting “publish” instead of “save” I can get things to appear.

It is supposed to work with the Movable Type API – and it does, except for categories. I don’t think this is an ecto problem, because I’ve been using ecto for a long time with both Nucleus and MT without any problem. I think that there is a bug in the XMLRPC code used in the latest nightly build of WordPress.

It is worse than I thought. Once I move something out of “general” it doesn’t appear at all, even via the permalink. I get this error if I try to view the page by clicking on the title in the “edit” window:
Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.
Ugh…I know it is beta, but I switched from MT to make my life easier!!!

Did you ever figure this out?

I’m having the same problem. I’m using the latest nightly build.

The strut your stuff section is why I wrote this post!!! Basically all I saw there were blogs, and most of them not very nice looking either. What I like about MT is that the templating system is easy to work with. I guess I’ll have to download WordPress and see for myself.
The point of a CMS is that it allows me to separate design from content. My wife can easily update the content of the site without having to worry about the design aspects, which can be changed and updated easily without messing up the content. It also allows the site to be more organic, growing over time rather than having to be all pre-fabbed in Dreamweaver. There are some good sites that have managed to use MT in this way, see here for instance:
https://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/articles/archives/000345.php
But I don’t like CGI, and having to constantly rebuild, etc. Even PHP output MT sites still are a pain in that regard.
Here is the link for ecto:
https://www.kung-foo.tv/ecto/
Cheers.