{"id":311,"date":"2008-10-19T02:12:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T01:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/?p=311"},"modified":"2008-11-27T02:39:22","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T01:39:22","slug":"minor-site-revamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/site-news\/minor-site-revamp","title":{"rendered":"Minor site revamp &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve reworked the site a bit.<br \/>\nThis started off (as usual) after an upgrade (to WordPress 2.6) &#8230; after which some things didn&#8217;t work too well &#8230; so I had to upgrade plugins as well.<br \/>\nI actually ended up writing one of my own &#8211; which I&#8217;ll get around to releasing soon (hopefully) &#8211; to manage the sidebar links.<br \/>\nWhile I was at it, I switched just about all of the sidebar to the WP &#8220;widgets&#8221;.<br \/>\nMost of the standard ones don&#8217;t offer a lot of flexibility, but there are some new ones out there. After the database changes in v2.3, things are starting to stabilise now.<br \/>\nSo I&#8217;m now using :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/reciprocity.be\/ctc\/\">Configurable Tag Cloud<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/srinig.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/flexi-pages\/\">Flexi-Pages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/flexo-archives-widget\/\">Flexo Archives<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to all of the developers &#8211; particularly Srini G for Flexi-Pages, which I&#8217;ve used to learn much more about widget &#8220;anatomy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Moving on to other stuff &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve also switched off a constraint on the number of items appearing in a category list &#8211; only the last 9 were showing (this was only an issue on a couple of categories).<\/li>\n<li>Hopefully, images shouldn&#8217;t be overlapping in Internet Explorer now as well. Sorry for any inconvenience.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m also going through of &#8220;tagging&#8221; my old posts. Hopefully, that&#8217;ll make it easier to get to where you want to be &#8230;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a bit of work for the sake of a few minor changes to the sidebar &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[66,136,80],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-news","tag-website-news","tag-website-tools","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}