I’m currently in the middle of upgrading my WordPress installation to 1.5.1.3, and thus things might not be working quite right around here for a bit. I’m not dead, and I will be going back to my original design once I can take to time to develop a theme properly. With all all [...]
It’s a good idea to test developmental changes in a protected environment where you know they won’t effect anything that’s mission critical. Typically this is simple to do as you can just edit the files on your local machine before uploading them. Making a test bed for WordPress, however, is a bit more difficult due to the nature of dynamic page generation.
Last week, Andrei Herasimchuk of Design by Fire announced a contest to see who could take his site’s current design and “clean it up, optimizing it for best semantic and structural architecture.” I figured I’d have a go at it.
Using some simple PHP and the functionality that’s already built into WordPress, you can easily control what appears on different page types without having to create multiple templates.