sflwa3b - stable, current site. sflwa sandbox - development site, quite possibly unstable.
*UPDATE:* This has been useful. User Notice: Unable to get image size data in user/themes/hblanc_photo/colorpalette.php line 11
In honour of Brendans sandbox for pre-developing his site, I now have my own also. Its accessible via the style switcher at the bottom of the page. This means you can see what Im currently working on for my site. Its more than likely going to be quite unstable with odd text all over the place for debugging purposes.
Im not sure how this will go as its quite a departure from my usual dev system of working on the localhost on my PowerBook and then uploading that live to my site.
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Hrm.. considered running a second install of WordPress? Gives a little more freedom IMHO.
Oh, and you might find this useful as well. :)
Mind you, I have found running `the_loop` multiple times can occasionally do weird things to the `if is_page()` stype checks..
I like what you've done so far.. the asides look way cool.
.. which reminds me how does one get 'out' of your sandbox? :)
ahh crap.. just found the link. Go me. :P
Ah yes, I grabbed that link too.
Im keeping it as styles because it saves me from having to load up all my plugins *and* add a load of false posts.
Its quite interesting hacking up without (relative) worry of problems.
Im trying to work out how to have my asides split to their own bit, the first post go to the latest post bit and all others that ARENT asides go in the older posts bit.
Im getting there, but it seems but Im stuck with if the first post is an aside, it skips that then goes to the next post but if its not an aside it sticks it in the older posts.
Not sure that makes sense but hey.
I really need a query_posts('not_category_name=asides&showposts=1'); function and also query_posts('not_category_name=asides&skipposts=1');
Layer the query. If blah, then if blah, then do, else do something else, else bail out.
There is nothing stopping you from doing a query, then perform if's against it. Mind you, it'd be a real mind-job working out the correct if statements :)
Yes, Its just getting my head around the if statements and getting them in the right order. Seems I can do either no asides or drop the first post on the older posts bit but NOT both. it must be really simple Im sure.
You think that's bad?! Try having "all thumbs" when it comes to CSS, and therefore trying to find a good theme that can be converted into a 3 column layout without looking butt ugly.. I'm having a devil of a time sorting that out. Sadly, I'm just not quite convinced on my current theme..
Im no genius with CSS, but I would say the Firefox Web dev extension is a great help in tracking down what css does what.
Im also a bit concerned that the asides/comments/delicious bit causes an odd split between the first post and the other posts.
I think it might help if I used a home.php file as well as index.php, the is_home() conditional statements are muddying the water somewhat. Oh and then theres archive.php too.
My only worry with this sandbox malarkey is that I can see myself *never* updating the main theme and just endlessly playing.
Yep.. pretty much my problem right now. :)
mod_reanimation
After looking at Michael’s b’ tweaks, and Matthew’s recent changes in his sandbox, I felt it was time to kick some sand around, to see what I could come up with..
Result? minique gets an overhaul.. I learn how to easily break templat...