A Day To Relax
July 16th, 2008 by ComputerBob
I was up until 1:30 this morning, working on WordPress. It isn’t the getting things to work that’s taking so much time any more. It’s the details. The hundreds of details.
Here’s just one of many examples that I’ve run into in the past few days:
Are permalinks working correctly in that archive plugin? No. Why not? Search the web and try to find out. Oh, it looks like that archive plugin only displays permalinks when you use the default year/month/day/postID number permalink format. Do I want to use that format? No. So, do I want to use that plugin. I guess not. So what other plugin does what I want but still displays permalinks with the permalink format that I’m using? Here’s one – download it to my PC, upload it to the server, enable it, and configure it. Oh, I guess that one doesn’t work with WordPress 2.5.1. How about this other one? Download it to my PC, upload it to the server, enable it, and configure it. Nope, it doesn’t do what I want. Here’s one that looks promising. And it looks like it’s doing what I want. And it’s displaying permalinks with the permalink format that I’m using. So why does it work just fine in my regular WordPress pages but it doesn’t work on my home page that phpIncludes the WordPress “loop?” It’s time to compare the WordPress page template’s code to my home page’s code again. Ah, I see that the archive plugin has its own JavaScript and stylesheet that get loaded in the header information of the WordPress template. I better copy that into my home page’s header information. Now it’s working. Good.
So why doesn’t it look the way it’s supposed to?
If you’ve ever done that type of intense problem solving over and over, all day and deep into the night for several days and nights in a row, then you understand why I welcomed the opportunity to run some errands and help my excellent next-door neighbor, Mike, trim a parkway-full of branches and cut down an entire unwanted tree from his front yard today.
Instead of working on WordPress.
Today, I need to relax. Tomorrow is another day.
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