Comments on: GPMINI moves to WordPress

By: db

db — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:19:06 +0000

sidebar in wordpress = sidebar.php, which can be easily called from any of your theme pages you like.

If you need the ability to call it only from certain pages, you can create as many different page templates as you like and then access them directly from the post screen.

Nicely done! Let me know if I can help.

By: GP0203

GP0203 — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:23:46 +0000

Robert,
The design expands to whatever page size you give it – at 800×600 the sidebar drops to the bottom of the page, but any bigger than that it’ll work. I’m not such much concerned about layout and I don’t much like these designs that lock in a fixed width in the middle of the screen, no matter how big my monitor is …

By: RB

RB — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:23:05 +0000

How wide is the page? I have a 22″ display and it nearly takes the whole width. I gotta get to that GPMINI pic, this weekend, maybe.

By: Ian C.

Ian C. — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:03:13 +0000

Thanks Josh … same colors as before the move, but Margaret also commented on that last night. Maybe I should darken the text a little more (the colors are inspired by the GP Thunder Blue, Chili Red and Silver)

By: Josh Wardell

Josh Wardell — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:17:50 +0000

Great work, Ian! The CSS and theme wrestling nightmares reminds me of what I went through when I adapted mine as well. And great work on the htaccess stuff.
My only complaint is the grey-on-grey text is a little hard to read.

By: GP0203

GP0203 — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:27:54 +0000

UPDATE:
Loads more web surfing tonight discovered this which identifies the same (“stripslashes_deep”) issue I was having, and suggests the use of “file_get_contents” to resolve it … tried it in the Gallery Footer and it seems to work

By: Gabe

Gabe — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:13:04 +0000

I’ve often thought about opening MF up to other logins and allow people to post (in draft form) directly to the site. It’s a great feature that Wordpress offers and can be very powerful if managed well.

BTW – I mentioned this idea to Todd last week when he told me about the GP mailing list. It’s makes a lot more sense in terms of information dissemenation. And once you have the weblog up and running you can rely on feedburner to serve an email list.

Now if WP just had a comment preview built in….

By: murmini

murmini — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:52:27 +0000

Ian, I am watching with interest. My murmini blog is written in Ruby running on a Rails framework, but every now and then I think about migrating to wordpress. Good luck, and keep us informed of the progress.