7 May, 2008
In the last post, I talked about how you can show off the latest series in your sidebar. One of the caveats of the latest_series() function/widget is that it only shows one series. The “latest series” function is just a way of giving readers quick insight into the most recent series you’ve published to your blog and is the easiest to customize.
However, there is another more powerful function included with Organize Series that you can use to output a list of all the series you’ve written where you want that acts very similar to the “wp_list_categories()” template tag in the WordPress core. What that means is that if you’ve already got a handle on how to use “wp-list_categories” then you’ll have no problem with “wp_list_series()”. Let’s take a closer look:
The Widget
For those of you who are uncomfortable with editing your theme files and who are using a theme with widgets enabled there is a widget included with Organize Series that you can use to output the list of series in your sidebar.
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23 Jan, 2007
Here’s the promised first post in a series of articles I am going to write over the next month about the challenges and benefits of using Wordpress as a content-management system (CMS).
Now I know that this topic has been covered fairly well already on the blogosphere - I’m not so naive as to think that I’m somehow setting a trend by writing this series! I am writing this series primarily as an excercise of recording for my own benefit some of the problems I ran into and the solutions I came up with in the process of designing a wordpress cms website.
In the course of these articles I’ll be referencing three websites that I’ve designed in the past 6 months as a CMS: vigliottiwoodworking.com, gohpc.net, and unashamedsermons.com. Here are some of the topics I’ll cover:
- CMS vs. a blog - what’s the difference and how to you determine what is used? (among other questions I found myself asking when designing a site around Wordpress)
- Challenges that face a developer when using Wordpress as a CMS.
- Benefits for using Wordpress as a CMS
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This is a preview of Wordpress as a CMS - Introduction
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