Archetyped

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 […]