Hey, look, my last client has gone live!

[elfs]

Oh, but there is good news. That little side job? They've gone live. See that menu on the left? That's what I did for them. This is a marketing site they have for their co-op. The old menu looked nothing like the one on their main website. Their main website was done in Dreamweaver. The co-op is in Wordpress. My job was two-fold: port the menu on the main site's "look and feel" to the co-op pages. That was easy. The co-op's menu, however, is a list of Wordpress categories, and (here was the doozy) they wanted the menu to show Wordpress Pages associated with a category, and they wanted that menu item highlighted when you were on that page.

Wordpress knows not of what you speak. Pages aren't categorized; that's for Posts.

But it was possible, with a bit of a SQL magic and a dig deep inside the Wordpress "Category Walker" class. And now I am much smarter about how Wordpress works internally.

Comments

[mauraanderson.livejournal.com]

The first link gets me an "under construction" page.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Fixed, thanks.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Is this something you can roll-up as a WordPress extension? Or does it require deep tinkering?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

That's a question I've been pondering. I don't know how to do plug-ins, per se, compared to themes, although they can't be that much different, and I suspect that relationship is rather specialized.

Although a theme base(a theme designed to be customized via CSS) that includes the basic concept: the category menu includes "Pages that discuss this category" as subitems, and does not use the category heirarchy, might be a worthwhile development project.

In my copious spare time.

Ha! We used to joke about that at Isilon. There was always too much to do. IMCST was a common acronym. It used to mean "When we're rich and can retire / when the company goes belly up and we're out on the streets." Well, I've been RIF'd and, you know what, I still don't have copious spare time.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Hey, tell them, not me!

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I was brought in to fix a specific issue that was beyond their designer's experience, not be their new designer. I did advise them that the fonts between their two sites were discordant, but that was obvious. I did not hear the music; apparently, it's a flash thing and I don't have flash enabled by default on my machine.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]