Comments on: WordCampUK 2009 presentation

By: Jonny

Jonny — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:29:13 +0000

@Andrew – oops, should have used my link checker! The Google Sitemaps plugin link is now fixed.

@Mark – I have never encountered this strange bug – but will certainly watch out for it! WP-CMS Post Control is currently not compatible with WordPress 2.8 (although almost all features do work still). However, it won’t hide away the posts panel, it simply hides elements of the write post/page panels and allows various controls to be applied (ie force disable Flash uploader). You could use either the Role Manager or Role Scoper plugin to achieve what you are after.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:15:19 +0000

Absolutely agree with commenting your code. But be beware. I have a massive problem once with comments at the top of a theme php page. It was fine in FF and Safari but IE sent all the content to the left even though the container was centred. Couldn’t work it out for days. By chance I noticed that I had a comment directly at the top of my home.php page (it was a “begin home.php” comment). Once this was removed it worked fine. Very weird but very annoying.

I often find commenting code critical as you may have created a custom query or function and then when you come back to it 2 months later you can’t for the life of you remember what it does – unless you have comments there!

Regarding your WP-CMS Post Control plugin. Is is compatible with WordPress 2.8? I am currently working on a site where posts are not needed at all and therefore would love to use the plugin to turn them off.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:06:29 +0000

…but a fantastic resource. Thanks.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:51:29 +0000

Your Google XML sitemaps link is broken!

By: Jonny

Jonny — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:36:47 +0000

Cheers Tony – and thanks for your hard work this year!

Yes, the sign-off stages save a-lot of trouble, it keeps everything running along smoothly and ensures the client is happy throughout the process.