Archive: September 2005

Serenity

Saw Serenity with the kids. Happy now. Will there be another one?

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WordPress – display contents of child pages in parent page

Woo-hoo! Solved one of the items below.
I have a parent page (Current Season), with three children. I created a custom template for Current Season using the information provided in this support thread, and I now have a beautiful page which lists all the concerts, rather than just links to each concert’s own page.

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Fun with del.icio.us

As always, way behind the rest of the world.
I got frustrated maintaining bookmarks on multiple computers, and trying to keep track of my blogroll. del.icio.us to the rescue.
It also prodded me to finally incorporate my static pages into WordPress. I had been resisting because I really didn’t want to update the pages. A lot of [...]

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WordPress as lightweight CMS

On a different note, I’ve redone the Cantabile Singers website using WordPress. It was originally hand-coded php.
Now it’s all WordPress static pages.
Features that would really be nice:

Some way to reference sibling or adjacent pages
The ability to mark a page as Draft. It turns out that as far as the database is concerned, everything is [...]

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Contributing

This is cryptic to protect the guilty (not that the guilty in question would ever read this).
Sometimes you try to contribute to an organization, and it’s like nobody even notices. I told my daughter I felt like I was standing at the door knocking, and the people on the other side don’t hear it.
She said, [...]

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Where’s an engineer when you need one?

The other day I park at work, whip the wheelchair out of the car, pop a wheel on, pop the other wheel on—wait, the wheel won’t go on. The axle goes in a little ways, then just stops. And it won’t come out again, either.
I shift over against the steering wheel to get some leverage, [...]

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