More fun with WordPress
Well it’s been a fun and productive day today on the blog. This morning I mainly concentrated on getting some tabs functional, which you can now see along the top of the screen. I think they fit the theme pretty well, although I did have to move the image over to the left. For those who are interested in purely CSS tabs, I heartily suggest A List Apart’s guide which uses the sliding doors technique to great effect.
This afternoon was mainly spent playing around with the moo.ajax library and fiddling with live archives. I’ve decided that I don’t need the complexity of the Extended Live Archive plugin, and so I’ll just be using Super Archives. However, as I’m combining all of this into one plugin, I’m going to re-write the JavaScript and probably just use the ideas and re-write it in my own style. Eventually this will all be released as a nice plugin combining inline comments, live archives and live search, but it’s whether I’ll have the time to do it properly. The LaTeX plugin is also working nicely, although I’ll wait until I have something a little more maths-oriented to show it off properly.
I got a random phone-call from Paul asking whether I wanted to go out for a pint, so I’ve been out and about for most of the evening. However before this (and indeed when I got back), I finished up going through the archives and tagging everything up accordingly. As you can see, there’s a fair few more categories. It was interesting to note just how many posts were about site development (as in development concentrated towards this site) and just how little of my ideas actually got implemented. Hopefully I’ll not have to worry about that now. I’ve now hidden the blog entries at Warwick Blogs, and you can find all of those posts in the aforementioned category.
You may also have noticed a reduction in the amount of posts available for viewing. I’ve hidden about 60 articles from the original blog since they really aren’t very good. If you have an account here and you really want to read them (may I suggest you don’t) then I may consider giving you access. But I don’t really see the point, to be honest.
The next thing on the list for me is to patch up some random miscellaneous code that I’ve been meaning to post on here and make some more pages. I suspect there may be more in terms of updates in a little while once I’ve figured out how to stop these munchies. Damned beer!
13/8/2006 8:55 pm
Having used Wordpress before, and being utterly defeated by buggy code and the planet’s zombie spamnets within days, I am impressed that you have whacked together such a crisp and poop-free installation.
Jolly well done and such.
13/8/2006 8:59 pm
Yeah, it takes quite a bit of getting used to. To get this far has taken about three days’ worth of solid effort but I reckon the investment is probably worth it. The trouble is (as you found out) that it’s very easy to break
14/2/2006 2:24 am
http://akismet.com/
It’s an anti-spam solution for Wordpress. From what I hear, it’s rather nice.
14/9/2006 9:09 am
Yup; there’s a plugin that comes by default with WP2. Had to get an API key but I’m hoping it should stop most of the spam.