Having a lot of work stacked up and nothing fun to do, I decided to ignore the work and give Habari a test installation on a localhost, just play around with it for an hour or two and see what the deal was with the core code.
To be scrupulously fair, these vague observations are the product of an hour or so, and of course, not authoritative in that regard. Against this, I have no great love for the present direction of WordPress… 2.5 seems laudable in most ideas, but not quite the finished version at present - there is still the spectre of bloat here, and I don’t think viable competition would do WordPress any harm at all.
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A quick and simple way to knock out duplicates if you have 2 Loops on the page
The first loop will look something like this:-
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People (visitors) quite often enquire why there is a lack of detail in the various code snippets given as brief tutorials on this blog. And it’s true, often only the only relevant line of code is given.
Well, simple answer - I am a great believer in the principle:
If you have ask - you probably shouldn’t be doing…
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Here’s a very simple hack to exclude items from an RSS feed, and since the principle involves the Loop, by extension, for post output as well - it’s not great programming style or practice but it does the job.
Exclude by author - any post you don’t want to appear on the RSS (maybe you’re a bit shy about sponsored posts…) assign to their own author.
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With Technorati now engaged in a misguided scheme to remove [edited] suspend WordPress blogs below 2.3.3 or as many as they can find, and also given the large numbers of spammers who locate WordPress using an identical method - it’s definitely time to go a little more anonymous:-
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Anyone know good Flickr plugin for WordPress? - shouldn’t be too difficult to put a set into a sidebar, now that the Flickr API has firmed up a bit.
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You want alternating backgrounds for posts down the page, or alternately styled table rows, or alternating anything - you need to test whether something is odd or even.
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It is possible to switch a theme’s CSS, depending on whether widgets are enabled or not - whether, like a lot of things in programming it is a good idea to do this, just because you can, is another matter…
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Well, just given version 2.5 a good try out on a XAMPP install. Aside of the usual, everything’s changed so I don’t know where anything is - which should be ignored - there’s definitely work gone in, the password hash is now (visibly) salted, presumably wasn’t before, also I love and adore the revised editor, and the glorious lack of paragraphs inserted gratis and totally unwanted… read more »
The idea resurfaces for a change in default theme, poor (old) Kubrick is seen as tired, also the issue of themes with added function (known by some as functionality).
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blogs, php, programming | Lewis, 11 May, 2008 | 
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