I often design websites for my friends and they usually just let me do whatever I want and keep their traps shut knowing they are getting 2500 dollars worth of work for free.
But once in awhile they dare to utter a preference such as the time when I made this theme for a friend and she said I want a black colour scheme . Well.
My bf turned traitor (a true Scorpio,him) and said oh yes those dark themed websites look sooo much more fancy. Well, I loved Bella and so I took her home and put her to good use.
However, a lot of things went kablooey after I selected the new theme. On BigFoot I’d done some really experimental and silly archiving pages, and I’d done them totally wrong. So my top menu is now missing links to those pages for the time being.
I know it’s very bad to delete pages and in fact you should never delete a page but thankfully you can fix this in an .htaccess file.
And if you aren’t a total hot head like me you can just hide the extra pages from the menu.
Now that I am so much more of a genius with WP then I was 6 months ago I now know how to properly set up category pages. So instead of using a custom query to pull one category into a page like I was doing (totally not how you’re supposed to do it) I simply renamed the 3 custom built template files category-1.php, category-2.php and etc.
Now a category page will show a neat list of excerpts of posts assigned to a single category along with pagination. My old pages didn’t get paginated…which was one tell tale sign I’d done it wrong.
It’s very easy to fool your navbar into thinking it’s listing page tabs when in fact it’s really listing category tabs so I am going to get round to doing just that very, very soon. For now if you have a burning desire to see what’s in these fascinating categories you can find them in the sidebar list.
Another task I’ve set up for myself is releasing my very first theme to the GP (general public) for free.
It will be this theme. I have to figure out an alternative for the logo div because no one is going to want my website name on their website. So I am installing it in another folder so that people can “test drive” it like you see other folks doing when they offer a free theme for downloading. So I have to learn how that’s done.How hard can it be?