I’d done it for all of my client’s sites weeks ago but neglected my own.Then I had to sort through all my many posts in order to tag them.Tedious but I want to have just a few categories show up in my sidebar and using tags instead of lots of categories makes this easier to do.The problem is that each category(there are a lot) is a searchable link so if I delete them someone might get the 404 message and I don’t want that.
My categories are now sorted into 3 main ones,Tech and Personal and Recipes.I made a Page template with a modified loop so now posts with those categories show up only on the right pages.
In order to make my Tag Cloud look like a cloud and not a list I had to change the code in my sidebar.If your tag cloud looks like a list and not a cloud it is because you have or the theme designer did make everything in your side bar a list.You could simply grab the code for the template tag for tag cloud and paste it into your sidebar.That is what I did.Then I removed the list making html.Right now I am not using the widgets until I have the time to figure it out 100%.But since it is xmas eve I am all set to cook a very large dinner and a cheesecake and I do not have the time to continue messing with the sidebar for now.
Category: Technical Blog
Yahoo Shortcuts Plugin
I just saw a demo of how the Yahoo Shortcuts Plugin could super enhance WP blog posts.I may not use it myself because I personally hate tooltips,which was a big feature.However I do like the option to convert a link to a badge that would insert a map into the text,making it look like a page a newspaper or magazine which is a look I p[ersonally really go for.Then at the bottom of the write post editing field is the flickr option.You select the pictures set you want to show and voila all your flickr photos relating to that post are in nice neat thumbs at the bottom of your post.
Pretty sweet.
Another Purehost Disaster
Thanks to Purehost and with a little help from me (I can’t shrug off all guilt onto Purehost…much as I’d like to) my father’s website was totally crippled during the short time people come to his website to make their Xmas orders.
Now my dad is also a little to blame,too.He should have alerted that me something was wrong when he noticed that the order rate dried up(sometime around Dec 3rd) the same time I launched the new paypal integrated shop,along with a new site and blog design. But it was not until yesterday the 14th with Christmas less than 2 weeks away that he let me in on this fact.
Despite my best efforts not to serve up 404’s due to the new design and site restructure(I’d used the url redirect tool Purehost offers, for each and every url that was being retired)-searches from Google were serving up blank pages.Not even 404 messages. Just blank white screens.Because I had directory browsing turned on-the browser went to the directory but couldn’t find the file. Of course it couldn’t. I had moved it. But I had used the URI redirect tool! I had taken every measure I thought I had at my disposal to protect my dad’s site from losing visitors.
Blogroll in WordPress,do you know how to change the link category name?
I was wondering myself how to do this because for some reason my blogroll wasn’t showing up in my list of post categories. If it wasn’t there to be edited how was I supposed to be able change the category name from blogroll to links or whatever I wanted it to say? To find the answer I performed a search and reached what I affectionately call the bitch n moan section of the WP codex. None of them seemed to know how to do it(and if they did they did not say-the cagey dears) there was one guy said that all you had to do was change the name.But he didn’t say how! Back to my dashboard and on a crazy whim I went to edit the link I had in the Blogroll. Right there staring me in the face was the option to add another category name to the list. What tipped me off that this was a separate list than the blog used for posts was the fact that the only category there was blogroll. So I added the ubiquitous link list category called links. Now my links list is called links,not blogroll.