Working on Vorpal Theme
I am trying to clean up the theme I am building for this site for public use. It is called Vorpal, and I have a ways to go, but it’s challenging me to learn more about the inner workings of WordPress.
The basic idea is to have a relatively minimalistic theme that allows a good distinction betwwen its areas. It seems likely that projects that I work on will need to be updated less frequently than the blog area. I’m not sure if this is the best structure or not, but I’m going with it for now.
More as a note to myself, I will track the changes I make to the theme here; maybe it will be interesting/useful to someone someday to see a WordPress noob test the waters.
Version 0.4
- Added dynamic body classes thanks to dead simple instructions from . I tried some other methods first, but wasn’t having any luck. This led me to the next problem…
- Until now I’ve been using Pages as the main navigation. I now feel I need to make the switch over to using nested Categories. That seems like it will more efficiently organize things here. I think I was kind of bastardizing Pages to make them work.
- Added 404.php
January 6, 2009 at 10:53 pm | WordPress, Work | 2 comments
Getting false positives on the Featured Tag that is supposed to put the featured post on top of the Home page. Not sure why.
Turns out the has_tag() function only works in the Loop. I was trying to use it as a condition for the wp_query, and thus getting the wrong results. I fixed it with an inelegant solution; I look at the last 30 posts, only print if it has the tag, and then break. It’s working though.