14Nov
Recently I posted about my intention to create a personal project, but I was undecided in what form this would take. After some thought I decided to create a WordPress theme. Of course this is nothing original; there are thousands of themes available with almost as many designers creating them.
Usually I would hope to undertake work where I felt I could add value, but releasing yet another WordPress theme to a saturated market would add little value to the mass population. Instead the projects main value comes in me learning more about how to design and implement themes that provide more flexibility to a range of users than the themes I build for a single client at Bronco.
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8Jul
Today I came across a rather unusual WordPress problem that either resulted in an ‘unresponsive script’ error or crashed my browser when attempting to write a new post.
The problem
When navigating through the WordPress admin to add a new post an ‘unresponsive script’ error appears allowing options to stop, debug or continue. None of these allow the page to continue loading correctly with the text formatting options still nowhere to be seen. Initially I considered the problem to be related to these options or an incompatible plugin.
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4Jul
Over the past week I have been designing and building a blog that will utilise a variety of WordPress plugins, some of which I have no previous experience with. The benefit of using WordPress as a blogging platform is the sheer number of plugin’s available; however it can be difficult with the information available to ensure you are installing the best plugin for the task. By viewing what is available on other websites you are able to assume what is achievable, but short of emailing the website owner you have no way of knowing exactly what plugin they are using.
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12Apr
As i’ve been working through a new site build that integrates a WordPress blog I’ve hit across an interesting problem.
Although through WordPress’ permalinks settings you are fully capable of giving a post a .html extension it seems impossible to do the same with pages. This seems a little odd, I tried a couple of things, such as changing the page permalink that it allows you to do, but when you add the .html WordPress removes the dot and leaves you with pagehtml rather than page.html.
Luckily if I enter .html into a browser it will redirect, however this leaves inconsistent url’s through the site. If the system can handle .html for a post, why not a page?