In the course of producing a theme that uses wp_list_pages for the standard menu, with a whole list of args, including exclude, as documented here, I find a series of non-standard behaviours - particularly when using a .mo file in the theme directory and in /wp-content/languages/
This is only with wp_list_pages for 2.5 upwards, WordPress 2.3 versions, not a problem, doing exactly what it’s supposed to…
The “official” radar seems to have no interest in the matter, so I was wondering whether any one could report their experiences…?
At last - and it is scary to preface these with the fatal words - at last, the solution to that eternal problem of what to buy someone when you’ve absolutely run out of ideas, and they’ve got everything etc etc. Gift Ideas - enter a few demographics and get a answer…
The algorithm’s not too bad, a bit literal at times, and there is a preponderance of Google Products, still touchingly known as Froogle here, but, the wisdom of the Telegraph is that it is so … putting them top of the list in the shopping section of their list of indispensible websites (although I suspect I could dispense with ebay, never having used it …)
As trumpeted here - I may be gadget-illiterate but hasn’t this iPhone thing been out for about a year? Why the arrival now?
Or has the memory been upgraded to the dizzy heights of 0.1MB or whatever - allowing these wonders to occur…?
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Today’s sites are that unusual thing - UK entrants, which makes a welcome change for that … and the niche is ecommerce, Shopping.com and Dealtime.co.uk, the shopping comparison sites, offering you sourced deals on the staple products of jewellery, consumer electronics, appliances and Lingerie.
Shopping.com, not a bad name, have been around for a long time - dealtime.co.uk is in some ways the amazon imitator, with a preponderance of ebay sourced merchandise. It is worth noting that with the flock-like similarity of all ecommerce web site design these days, the transition to the seller’s domain is hardly noticeable…
Do bear in mind that these are only facilitators - the deal is done with the participating merchants, who bear responsibility for price and description.
A month ahead of schedule - which may or may not be a good thing - and coming complete with its own video for the youngsters.
What looks very good is the new plugin interface which divides active and inactive plugins, felt by many to be overdue.
Apparently, and this is only horrible rumour at this stage - the medium-vaunted login system isn’t doing for Firefox 3.0…
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If you’re using WordPress as a CMS and doing some extra coding - for example picking something from an extra db table to display on a certain page, eg page_id=4
$pageVar = $wpdb->get_var(SELECT var FROM my_table WHERE something=’something_else’);
and then you also want to SEO the <title> a little, so in header.php you put:-
<?php if (is_page(’4′)) $extraTitle = ‘» ‘ . $pageVar; ?>
<title><?php bloginfo(’name’); ?> <?php wp_title(); ?> <?php echo $extraTitle; ?></title>
It won’t work - $pageVar doesn’t have global scope, because of the method used to get the header on the page.
<?php get_header(); ?>
Instead, one way round this is to use:
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/header.php’); ?>
and it will work…
This has the nature of a hack - use sparingly and probably not in themes for general release. And stay away from $_GLOBALS
Maybe - another entrant to the small and select group of Firefox plugins that actually have some value….
Fireshot has a variety of editing tools that let users modify captured screen shots and add text and graphic notes.
Captured image can be saved to disk, copied to clipboard, emailed or opened in a new editor. File formats which are supported contains .PNG, .GIF, .JPEG, .BMP, etc.
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So the dreaded word “framework” creeps into the WordPress discussion
Framework, I venture to suggest, often means a serious overcomplication of code in the holy names of consistency, effective MVC, semantic accuracy and a few other buzzwords. I’ve had to sort out a fair few sites that used a PHP framework, where a couple of classes and a MySQL function wrapper would have done the job much more efficiently. Read more »
Poker City is Las Vegas, I guess… Poker City is also a 2 column fixed-width free WordPress theme, with righthand sidebar, enabled for widgets.
The theme is compatible with WordPress 2.3, 2.5 and 2.5.1, and has been tested on Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and Opera 9.
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So we’re up to WordPress 2.6 beta 2 - any sign yet of slimming down the jquery and the editor…? - had a client last week who simply couldn’t get the Write Post page loaded on their machine… admittedly a Mac on dialup, the former of which I’m sure makes no difference whatsoever.
php, security, wordpress | Lewis, 31 Jul 08 | 
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