notthatugly

Thanks for clarifying that. A friend asked me about this yesterday, and that’s what I told her, but then I got worried things might have changed in 1.0.

Thanks for that — I’ve noted the problem next to the tag in the wiki.

shelleycat: have you tried leaving out ‘true’, or enclosing it with single quotes? (I have no idea whether this would do any good, but it’s all I can think of)
Moose: it’s the name of the file, as you can see if you go to the site ??

Hmm… there’s a tag for the_category_ID so there ought to be one for the_category_name. Try that and let us know whether it works.

You could also try altering the parameters of <? php the_category () ?> and see whether that helps.

I’m still working on a tutorial telling people what it’s safe to change in index.php (I have to revise it for 1.0, so that’s holding things up), but basically WP is extremely customisable. The only things which are absolutely necessary are the php code at the very top of index.php (which calls wp-header.php) and the php code marking the beginning and end of the entry loop. The other php stuff is tags; which can be omitted, moved, or customised with parameters, just like the MT tags. At the moment the only up-to-date listing of template tags is here. If you’re comfortable with MT you shouldn’t have too much trouble adapting to WordPress.

I’m in Wales, so it looks like the whole of the British isles are represented rather than just England ??

I’d like to see archiving by category too. I don’t need it for my blog, but it’d be useful for my template site.

I was planning on switching my template site to WP anyway, so what I’ll probably do is install 1.0 on the new server and see how that pans out. I’m afraid I can’t see bugs and upgrade issues as a welcome opportunity to ‘get into the guts of the files’. I’d rather have smooth machinery that allows me to concentrate on writing and designing, which is what I have with .72.

Yeah, if you want to keep your sidebar fixed width use a background image. But if I wanted a floating-width sidebar that extended all the way down the page I’d use a table.
(if erisfree reads this she’ll kill me ?? )

If you don’t like the templates at my site (the latest three are WordPress 0.72-compatible, but I haven’t had time to check them with 1.0 yet) you can download alternate css files here or consult my b2/wordpress help page for other template resources.
(apologies for the self-plugging)

They’re text files, so yes. Most ftp programs will do that automatically.

What anonymous said: “the written and visual contents of this magazine are protected by copyright”.
If a site prints some css or code, or gives you a link to download it, and says it’s free to use, that is fine. What is not fine is to view the source code/css of the site and copy it without asking first. I offer templates and css for people to use on my site, but I wouldn’t be happy if someone came along and took the layout of the site itself. Basically, if the owner specifically says you can take it, take it; if they don’t, leave it alone.
I just thought that needed clearing up after some things that were mentioned in the ‘Formatting’ thread, and because pande’s original post wasn’t very clear about what had actually been taken from ALA ??

To be honest, most WordPress users seem to be comfortable editing their own html, css, and in many cases php. That’s why you won’t find that many people using the default index.php; we want to put our own stamp on our sites, and we find the default template limits our design options. Yes, the documentation is lagging behind on the issue of templates, and I’m one of the people who’s found that frustrating. And, as this forum gets busier, it’s becoming harder to keep up with things here too. But the docs issue is being addressed, and it shouldn’t be too long before I can confidently recommend WordPress to newbies.
In the meantime, you can download alternative css files that won’t require you to touch index.php (check out my zip file, and the ‘design contest’ threads in the design forum) This is a much easier and ethically superior option than taking css from people’s actual blogs.
(sidenote: if I were to write a tutorial on ‘what it’s safe to change in index.php’, would this be best placed in the ‘design’ section of the board or in the wiki?)

If it works for your entries I don’t see why it shouldn’t work for your links. You can call links or archives from any php page as long as it includes the WP header code.