DKG has at various points talked about projects designed to "fix" email (which is fundamentally broken by spam) that would charge a penny a message. The idea is that when you start adding a nominal cost per message, spam becomes a wee bit more costly. Some smarty pants out there ...
I started to write this post last night but got distracted thinking about jury duty and my arrest a few years ago (which is now the subject of a lawsuit being heard by a jury this week. We'll see what comes of that.) I've started to write a lot ...
Beka is looking for a co-worker; Maggie nees a roommate; Elizabeth needs a tenant and Pit needs neighbors. Let me know if any of these appeal to you.
I have good reasons for making this move and I don't want to get pounced on for my decision, so let us just start there. My reasons include hosting costs and the fact that our Plone host hasn't been a good fit. I recently completed the process of migrating Recycle-A-Bicycle to a new web host and CMS. I moved almost all of our content from Plone into Drupal, and learned a few things along the way.
I don't use WordPress's categories much on this site. When I first set up my notebook, WordPress hadn't introduced the ability to add categories while you are writing a post, so I set up Ultimate Tag Warrior and moved on. It isn't that important. Lately, though, I've been using WordPress as a full on content management system, on sites like YBEN and Friends of Brad Will. WordPress isn't a content management system. I know that. If you didn't, now you do, too. But it is easy to use and just flexible enough to stand in for a dead simple content management system, right up until you notice that freetagging category box. The add categories on the fly box. The box, with the add button, in the categories section.
I think the real answer to my latest questions is "stop trying to make Word Press act like a full on CMS," but while I'm stuck with it on a few projects, I figure I ought to share my cleverness with stickies. Here is my category.php template page--you'll need a category called "sticky" to make this work, but you can show the first post that was categorized as "sticky" in each category overview page with this code. Secretly, there is a plugin called "adhesive" that uses the custom fields to mark posts as sticky, but it wasn't the easiest thing to find. It ought to be here, but it isn't. If you rifle through enough forum threads, you'll find out about Design Pastor, who posted a copy of it, for now. I wound up using the plug-in instead of troubleshooting this code.
I keep thinking that I'll eventually figure SMB out and use my deep and thorough understanding of it to write a clear post that will make legions of people just like me say "ahhh, I wish I'd read this before I tore all my hair out trying to make ... work!" It hasn't happened yet, though.
CCK is good stuff. I know that some folks like to design their own modules, and debates rage about the right way to accomplish what CCK accomplishes, but if you've got a drupal site and you want to manage custom content types, CCK is a perfectly respectable option. Except that it is a pain in the butt. Say you run a small youth program that doubles as a used bike shop. You want to make a custom content type on your future drupal site, for displaying used bikes that you've got in stock. You know the basic fields you need: price, make, model, a photo, what shop it is in, and some room for extra details. To create the CCK content type that contains all of those fields, you need to go through an inane series of forms that'll have you banging your head on the wall if you are the sort of hater who bangs her head on the wall when you're forced to complete a repetative task. So here is your salvation:
Little known fact: I used to teach grammar. Other Little Known Fact: my friend Taylor used to say I reminded him of Clarissa on Clarissa Explains it All. I took great pride in that, even if he wasn't actually being nice. I thought Clarissa was kind of cool, all things considered. The question of the week this week is about my friend's bikes. Or my friends' bikes. Or my friends and their many bikes. How do you know if you need an apostrophe? Okay, if you think this is totally obvious and not worthy of a blog entry, consider yourself excused.
I know I should know better than to be surprised by the State Department, but their Mexico Travel Announcement (not a full Travel Warning, for whatever that is worth) released yesterday is infuriating. To wit: On October 27, 2006, an American citizen was shot and killed in Oaxaca City as ...
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