LaurenandLloyd.com
where our wasted time becomes your wasted time
I had to edit the stylesheet for the template we’re using. The first edit was easy. I wanted links to be underlined (you know, so you can tell that they are links). But then all of the links were underlined including titles and menues and usernames and posts and some other stuff as well.
A few more edits later and I think I have everything that looks bad underlined de-underlined. I hate stylesheets. The onlything worse than stylesheets is every other way of specifying design.
Brian’s Threaded Comments is a plugin that lets people either comment on a post or reply to someone’s comment (or reply to someone’s reply to a comment on a post…). I thought that would be useful after Lauren’s reply to Brad’s comment looked like a comment on the post instead of a reply (the fact that the order was messed up didn’t help either).
Besides, I like threaded comments because you can have a bit of a discussion without having a full fledged message board –not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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Ajax Comments 2.0 is just a neat little plugin that allows people to comment without reloading the whole page. AJAX is short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, and is the a catch all for the cool websites that update information without reloading the page. I don’t know if this plugin will play well with some others that I want to install and it will be the first to go if there seems to be a problem, but it is cool.
Rather than trying to describe it, just go ahead and add a comment and you’ll see.
Update:
Sure enough, the next plugin I installed wasn’t compatible with this one. It didn’t break anything, but it doesn’t do anything neat now either. Oh well.
Having worked on a few dozen websites, I know it is easy to forget what changes you have made to the underlying code after a while. In an effort to avoid that with this site, I’ll be documenting the changes to the site itself in this category. As I imagine this sort of information will only be interesting to me (and more for documentation than anything else), The first change to the website was to add a separate category for this type of post (I won’t document each category addition) and then to find a way to not show certain categories of posts on the main page. After a bit of searching, I found the Elegant Category (in)Visibility plugin. It lets you decide how/if each category of post is displayed.
There are lots of neat plugins for WordPress, and that is one of the main reasons we’re using it. I’ll be installing others right quickly.