Archetyped

Categories are nice, but truthfully, given the choice, I’d probably use tags wherever appropriate. Whereas categories are innately related to each other based on their hierarchy, tags initially do not have any relationship with each other. It’s by their pairings that relationships and meaning are formed. Which tags are associated with another […]

Well, that wasn’t so hard after all
Displaying items in a section filtered by a category is now working!
I was thinking it was going to be harder because I was initially thinking I was going to go with Worpress’ default category functions to display categorized items, which I would then have to figure out […]

Actually, that was yesterday. After I got RSS feeds working again (again, a result of my custom rewrite rules), I set out to get feeds for sections working. Simply put, I wanted there to be a feed for every section (e.g. http://domain.com/section-name/feed) which displayed the latest items (articles, blog posts, etc.) in that […]

I just finished adding the ability select where a new section will be inserted by choosing the section you want the new section to appear after.
This was the first time in a while that I played with pushing PHP-generated data to javascript, so it was a good exercise.
Here’s a shot of it:

I find it much […]

I’ve fixed the URL rewriting issue I was having. The problem was that the regular expressions used to determine the post data (either the post’s name or id based on the permalink structure) were not properly handling different base URLs. This was evidenced when I installed the plugin on a Wordpress install for […]

I’ve moved from developing the CMS plugin on my local computer, to deploying it on a server on the internet. I’ve already run into some issues, but at least it’s not totally broken Honestly, all in all, things seem to be looking pretty good.
The main issue right now? As usual, […]

Up until today, I had been happily using a customized .htaccess file to manage all my rewrite rules. I placed them above the Wordpress-generated rules to ensure that they took precedence over Wordpress’ default rules. Things worked perfectly this way (so far as I’ve tested), but I decided today that if I was […]

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, […]