Very Amusing!

Last Updated on Sunday, 28 February 2010 11:22 Written by Mandy Sunday, 28 February 2010 11:22

Well Google certainly picks up WordPress sites quickly. I’ve not submitted this site to any search engines (seeing as it’s very much a work in progress and I’m not sure where it’s heading yet!) but it must be being picked up somewhere as I’m getting a stack of comments – mostly to my “Adapting Colours” post.
Now, anyone who knows about these things will see that I’ve not mentioned anything complicated in that post. Those who don’t know about these things will see that I’ve probably not mentioned enough to get them started either. So all in all, a pretty useless blog entry, so why all the comments saying it’s “quality content”?! Well, it’s making me laugh anyway, so feel free to continue to make these random flattering comments about a less than mediocre blog! Maybe I’ll actually publish the funniest each week…
In the meantime, I’ve been working on a couple of sites, but more about those later this week.
Have fun!

The CMS solution!

Last Updated on Sunday, 14 February 2010 04:45 Written by Mandy Tuesday, 9 February 2010 08:53

I’ve found a fantastic plugin that brings Wordpress much closer to being a full CMS system. TS Custom Widgets allows you to choose which pages and posts individual widgets are displayed on. Hoorah! Big thanks to that plugin developer!

However, despite it’s wonderfulness, it doesn’t allow me to hide the right side bar completely when I need to. For this, I need to do some more investigation…

mmm…I’ve worked out that it *can* be done, but it’s a bit messy, so I think I’ll stick with the two sidebars for now. Bringing more divs and even the sidebar call into the page posting takes away the slickness of WordPress! If anyone knows of another way or a good template with collapsible sidebar dependent on if any widgets are set to display on it, let me know about it!

More template tweaking

Last Updated on Friday, 5 February 2010 01:57 Written by Mandy Monday, 1 February 2010 11:22

Changed a few bits on the template. Although WordPress’ Appearance Editor is fine for making minor changes, I prefer to use a text editor (TextPad) and FTP for more important things. For a start, it’s easier to roll-back if I change my mind or make a mistake, and also easier to copy sections of code to move them about or whatever!

I’d like to easily decide what’s on at least one of the sidebars depending on what page we’re viewing, so that’s my next challenge and would bring Wordpress capabilities nearer those of Joomla!