i can see clearly now, the rain is gone

June 30th, 2005

ok so the rain isn’t completely gone, but the skies are starting to clear. I’m referring to WP that is. I have finally been able to hack at the code and overall structure of WP somewhat so that I am able to add more static ‘pages’ to the interface. I modified the code so that these pages would display a second column, now I need to create widgets to fill in this second column on these pages.

So far, I like having an interface to manage everything. Though I have built custom interfaces in the past for clients to manage similar areas of content, it is kind of nice to have a totally different, more featured environment.

I decided to make the portfolio section a static page. At first I treated each portfolio item as a separate post which kind of made sense, but I wanted the section to appear in the header bar and instead of hacking the code for a category of posts to appear, creating a page seemed less painful and more inline with the overall structure.

I am still not 100% sold on WP as an alternative to possible future client projects, there seems to still be some areas that I am missing, maybe I should take a few minutes/hours to read through the WP codex. Things though are starting to come together.

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