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This ite seems to be swallowing photos and spitting them out with no sign left of them.

I put this down to configuration errors of some of the plugins. Especially the postie/email ones. Everytime i set the meida to go to the right folder and then when the plugin is upgraded tis gets reset and i loose a load of em!

Most frustrating

I saw the theme on this site: www.ragamuffinsoul.com and it was very close to a theme ive had in the pipeline.

The one you see now is a first draft of it. I still have to add lots of previous functions like category thumbnails and such but it will happen over time. It’s a combo of the above linked theme and this one: Clean Home.

What do you think?

I’ve been thinking more on the development of his site and since my last post abut this I was having another thought.

You can visit my lovely wife’s blog at a subdomain on this site: ruth.irishmark.net but i was thinking of maybe combining them. As she is, after all, my wife then why not combine the into one main blog for the two of us. When the kiddies come along they could join in too…..

Below here isa list of ideas fr it that i wanna write down in the site so i dont loose them – i would do so if i wrote it on a scrap of paper.

Cat Images – Photos of Ruth and I together doing stuff. – ideally facial expression!

• WordPress –
• Arg – both lookin miffed – sulking
• Church –
• Family –
• Film – eating pop corn
• Friends –
• General/Uncategorized – looking bored
• God / God Stuff –
• I Laughed – tickling each other
• Love – the kiss shot
• N95 / Phone – looking at phone with joy
• Photos –
• Private – going shhhhhhh
• Profound – looking stupidly profound
• Rides –
• Sad – looking sad
• Techie –
• Tunage – headphones bot of us
• Tweet –
• Video –
• WooYaa – going oooooooh/holding alternate sigs saying woo and yay
• Work –
• Geek-tastic – geek out
• Holidays – tent
• Reviews – looking estudious

Functions

Twitter integration  – needs to be able to link in to multiple twitter accounts twitter users may help

facebook integration – needs to be able to link in to multiple facebook accounts read: smashing mag’s article on this

I’ve just changed the permalink structure of the site so I apologise to anyone who has linked to my site and the links break.

Unless you linked to summat and didn’t tell me – the  toy deserve to DIIIIEEEEE…..umm ok maybe a bit harsh.

It’s coming back tpogether now bu  i still need to figure out how to implement the catagory template code. The thumbnail code works great but the tweets need to be condensed hence th catagory template need:

<?php
$post = $wp_query- >post;
if ( in_category(‘3’) ) {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/cat3.php’);
} elseif ( in_category(‘4’) ) {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/cat4.php’);
} else {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/cat.php’);
} ? >

Lets see if we can get it to this:

New Layout

I really am making a mess ofthis site i think i need my head examined. I am living in th hope that if i can pull it off It will work and look amazing – well as amazing as i want it to look, but i keep having too many ideas that flit throug my head and i dont write em down and then i forget them….

I gotta have some faith that ican do this. God game me some Skillz and i intend to use em.

http://www.irishmark.net/?cat=25

http://bloggingbits.com/post-thumbnails-in-wordpress/

http://www.seoadsensethemes.com/wp-post-thumbnail-wordpress-plugin/

I’m trying desperately to do some hardcore WordPress theme development and i fear i am a wee bit over my head. However, usually when i do something stupid and try and make the site do something it doesn’t normally, well, i’m always in way over my head but there you go. I am posting this here and on wordpress.org to see if anyone can help me with it.

Old Current Version

The first image here is how the site currently works/looks. First it takes the most recent post and features it at the top of the page. Then it goes on to display the next ten or so posts with thumbnails albeit limited to 220 characters or so. It is checking the category then assigning the appropriate image. It does that using the following code:

<?php if (is_category(‘7’) ):
<img src='<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’);?>/images/cat7.jpg’ alt=” />
<?php } elseif (is_category(‘8’) ):
<img src='<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’);?>/images/cat8.jpg’ alt=” />
<?php endif; ?>

This is an abbreviation of the full code used as i’m using about 10 diff categories and thumbnails.

This is all a bit messy to be honest. And now i am using twitter it is becoming crowded with that little bird bless him. I want to restyle the layout of the posts. That can be done simply with some good CSS. What I really want to do though is to change the layout of the tweet posts completely.

New Layout

This is where the second image comes into play. This image shows roughly how i’d like to display the Tweet posts and the standard posts. I’m gonna do away with featuring the first post as its not really for me on this site – i hate it actually. You will see though that the layout of the tweetpost is very different from the standard one.

I’m using twitter tools to sort the tweets and part of what it does is post my tweets as posts but in doing so it creates a title as well as the content. Fair enough

– it has to for wordpress. I don’t want it to display the Title ad the content. I want to get rid of the titles for these tweetpots.

The way i have been thinking of doing it:

I want to create different templates for each category then create a query in the loop to see which template to use to display the post. The lovely people at wpcandy.com have created a great cheat sheet on a PDF (found this via webdesignledger.com), on the 3rd page is the following code:

<?php
$post = $wp_query- >post;
if ( in_category(‘3’) ) {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/cat3.php’);
} elseif ( in_category(‘4’) ) {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/cat4.php’);
} else {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/cat.php’);
} ? >

I want to put this code in to my pages so that whenever a tweet or standard post appears that it will display in a nice and pretty fashion. I just don’t have the PHP/WordPress skills to know which bits of code to change. I have been trying but i keep getting errors.

SOOOOOOOOOO…..

any ideas?

If anyone out thewre with a super-brain cares to crack this one i’d be a very happy boy.

Questions welcome.

You can find this as a forum post on the wordpress forums too here.

I thoght i’d write up a post on my favorite plugins. I consider most of them to be must-haves but then I use the site i run in my own way where as others may use their sites in a differnet way.

Writing Tools

• RB Internal Links – link easily posts, pages or gatagories on your site
• Autolink WikiStyle – lets you set up quick links without having to type em all out.
• Add to Any: Share/Save/Bookmark Button – adds an “add to any” button to each post/page
• Raw HTML capability – as it says on the tin
• Insights – easy linking of other random searched media to your posts

Media Tools

• Viper’s Video Quicktags
• TubePress
• Audio player

Making things easy Backend

• WP Easy Uploader
• WP-DBManager
• DashBar
• Category Checklist Expander
• p2pConverter
• WP Server Date Time
• Revision Control
• Delete-Revision
• TinyMCE Advanced

Security

• WP Security Scan

General useful tools

• Akismet
• Cystats
• All in One SEO Pack
• Theme Test Drive
• ExecPHP widget
• PHP Speedy WP
• WP-Mail-SMTP

Mobile / Email Blogging

• WPhone
• Postie
• PostMaster

Helpful Tools

• Event Calendar
• podPress
• Sermon Browser
• Time Machine
• SimplePress Forums