Archetyped

Well, I’ve pretty much concluded (for myself at least) that it is possible to do 99% of what I thought was necessary for Wordpress to be usable as a CMS via the plugin API. I’m still working out a few kinks (such as a last-minute issue with sub-pages), but it’s mostly all there.
It’s late […]

I spent way more time than necessary today working on handling and processing form input for the Options menus. I was focusing on form input for the prefixes for sections, posts, and categories. I don’t know if it was just that kind of day, but I just could not get it right.
What was […]

I didn’t feel much like tackling the code refinement today, so instead I did a little bit of work on the administration menus as well as added some options to customize the plugin’s behavior.
Here’s a quick shot of it in action:

It’s pretty simple right now, as I just wanted to get a working version first, […]

I had a feeling that the biggest challenge of this little experiment would be finagling proper CMS permalinks out of Wordpress. Simply put, I was not let down. Today was my first major foray into the world of WP_Rewrite (the class in Wordpress that handles all the URL rewriting), and I feel fortunate […]

Made some good progress today. After going over several potential implementations of Sections on paper, I finally ended up with a solution that I think is the simplest. Also nice is that this solution does not require adding any tables to the Wordpress database. While I wouldn’t have a problem with that […]

I’ve spent a good part of the day researching and testing different potential solutions to getting Wordpress to act like a proper CMS. There are couple major roadblocks that will require some creativity (especially since my goal remains to leave the core Wordpress code untouched). Honestly, I’m not sure if it will be […]

I have always loved Wordpress as a blog platform, but even with its “Pages” functionality, I never really saw it as a viable option for a CMS (Content Management System). When I was mulling over how to structure Archetyped.com, and do it in the least amount of time as possible, I decided to take […]