matsdagerlind

Thanks Otto. I still have to digest what it is you’re really saying here, but I have a feeling that when I have done so, I will be able to do what I set out to do – or make an informed desicion not to do it.

So I’m changing the status to ‘resolved’ for this question.

/Mats

BUMP

I run a political thinktank website using WordPress, and I wanted it to look a bit non-bloggy and a bit more news-site/magazine like.

You can have a look here:

Demofon

It’s based on a free theme:

Mimbo

although somewhat modified by me.

It can arguably still be made even less bloggy by adding more elements, e.g. animated gif or flash banners etc.

Earlier I used

this look

based on another free theme:

Apathy by Perishable Press

but modified almost beyond all recognition. (There are no images in the screen-dump, which makes it look a bit dull, but threw in the same anount of pics as in my current design, and it gets a lot nicer.)

As for the debate about why try to make WordPress look like something else than a blog, I fully support the view that WordPress is by far the easiest CMS-system to run, manage and modify. To step up to something like Joomla if all you want is a less bloggy look really is overkill. Note that I’m not saying Joomla is not a good CMS-system (especially considering it’s free), just that very many of us not need the fancy stuff and do not want to put in the hours/days/months it takes to master the back-end.

/Mats D

OK, after some investigation, I found you need to be logged in to your wordpress account for this plugin to work. If your accessing it from another computer where someone is logged in to another wordpress account, you get an error message like I described above.

The thing is, my wife is also running a WordPress blog and she was logged in to her wordpress account on the computer. It took me some time to figure out this. After logging her out and logging myself in, the stat plugin seems to work.

It’s a bit awkward though, Akismet doesn’t stop working just because you log out from your wordpress account or because someone else is logged in to his/her wordpress account on the computer, so I don’t see why this has to be the case with the stats plugin.

/Mats D

In spite of clarification, this hack doesn’t do it for me. I still get a message saying I’m not a member of this blog bla, bla… …get your API key here bla, bla…