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More lurking on the irc channel:

NuclearMoose's WordPress's default layout CSS explained

From lurking on the wordpress irc channel – I picked up a few links…
mookitty's
many plugins (
Some of the ones I want to take note of:
Show Categories plugin
Random Post plugin
Event Calender plugin

LaughinLizard's list of mods on the wiki

In fact, there are many many many plugins on the wiki right here

Note to self: when posting code on IRC – use this (and while we're on the subject of irc – this list of commands will come in handy) (Note to self: to do that cute little thing that makes it look like "yourId laughs" – enter "/me laughs")

Oh, fyi – if you have your WP blog in a different directory than your install – you might run into this problem. (another bookmark from there: the md5 hasher… thingy…

I must be living under a rock because I've never tried playing with stylizing forms with the fieldset tag! I was reading the picment link below and couldn't figure out how they were getting the outline around the form in the earlier steps… duh! LOL!

Fieldset (htmldog)
Fun with forms – customized input elements (picment)

Nor have I tried playing with the option group thing:
Accessible Forms (htmldog)

(usability disclaimer: just because you can change everything about the way your form looks – doesn't mean you should. Drastically changing form elements has the potential to completely confuse your users, and make your form un-usable. Proceed carefully. You may now return to your regularly scheduled CSS-play.)

Spotted this on makikoitoh.com:

PixIcons
A cool dingbat font with little pixel icons

I've been having a problem with IE6 where, even though I set it to show the status bar – if a site spawns a new window on me – suddenly it changes the setting on me – without my doing anything! Looking around through google, I think (hope!!) I came across a solution that will fix this once and for all!

From this site:

With (only one) IE open, click View and select: Status Bar.
Hold down the Ctrl key and click the close button (upper right).
Open Windows Explorer, click View and select: Status Bar
Click Tools > Folder Options > View tab
Click the "Apply to all folders" button.

Just a side note about my plans – here's a list of what I plan on attacking and when.

1) Comment Subscription
This is an important enough feature I have here, (I think, anyway) that I feel warrants delaying my official move to WordPress until I have it working. Especially since the comments can sometimes be more important and informative than my actual posts!

Once that's done, I think I'm safe to transfer the blog to WordPress. All the other "simple" tweaks are done. Here's my plan for afterwards:

2) Comment show/hide
This will be a modification/add on to my existing "show/hide more" plugin.

3) Pagination-extra
Someone commented that they would like more flexibility about where the navigation for the pages go – so I'll probably make a second plugin that will allow you to do that. There will be a bit more code you'll need to add to your template to do that – but hopefull not much (maybe a line or two more)

4) Comment Hi-lite
This is strictly for my own personal use… as I said before, sometimes the comments here are more important than the post. And there are some comments that are more important than others. I want the ability to have certain comments (that I indicate) hilighted in some fashion, so it's easier for users to find when they're looking through page after page of comments.

I'll add on to this as I come up with more things or get more requests. Keep in mind that that first one is a DOOZY. LOL! There's a lot of layers to it – especially with users managing which posts they're subscribed to, and being able to maintain a "do not mail" list – so that I comply with the whole "can-spam" stuff. So it will probably take me awhile before I can move off that first step. But I figured I'd post the "project plan" in case you were interested.

This plugin is designed to paginate your pages (similarly the way the mt-paginate plugin worked). See instructions/information below. (Again – I'm still a WP-newbie – so there may be updates as people use this, and give me feedback. Please check this post to see updates)

Current Version: v. .1.1
Last Updated: 8/18/04 3:34 PM EST
IMPORTANT: Future development on this version has ceased. The latest version of this plugin (compatible with WP 1.5) can be found here.
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Charlene just mentioned this in the comments of another post, so I thought I'd post how I'm doing it on my pages (or will be doing it – once I finish them all)

After the "WordPress Post loop" begins (which starts like this) :

<?php if ($posts) : foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>

Put this:

<?php if ($single) { ?>
<?php previous_post('% |',",'yes') ?> <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">Home</a> <?php next_post('| %',",'yes') ?>
<?php } ?>

post updated 5/29/04 to include a few of the suggestions in the comments.

My prayers have been answered! Well at least one of them. 😉

Template manager for WordPress

Listamatic – various options for styling lists

Needed that link. Apparently haven't blogged it before. (If I don't save it here, I lose it!)