Category Archives: Pedantry

Fun with Pages

In WordPress lingo, a “Page” (note the capitalization) is a more permanent form of document, unlike the fleeting day-to-day posts that flit by chaotically, flying along chronologically, occasionally wrangled into submission by categorization.  Posts, on the other hand, are intended to remain in the same, or strongly-similar, position navigationally as time progresses.

It occurs to me that using posts for updates to the work-in-progress IK Fate doc is probably a poor way to organize things.  Versions 0.10 and 0.11, as previously posted, are staying where they were originally placed, but new copies are being placed in a IK Fate Page for what I hope will be a more organizationally-sound, reasonably-permanent information architecture solution. Future updates will be marked by posts, the main purpose of which will simply be to draw attention to the updated Pages. Pardon my dust.

PHP is Your Friend

I’m settling into a new back-end for this blog, and have observed a few things that I had not previously needed to pay much heed to. The first of which is the vast assortment of plug-ins and themes available for weblogs. I knew on some intellectual level that there were a lot of folks out there whipping up solutions to their individual challenges and hurdles, and that some portion of them are turning right around to share those solutions with the world. Some problems are more common than others, so a lot of redundant work is inevitable.

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