four times in two months

i upgraded my blog again last night, to help joen with some bugsquashing on Fauna RC2. after not touching my wordpress install for the better part of a year, it's odd to be updating it this many times in 2 months. I still had to do ...

Jizzy Handled

after reasonable testing, i've now upgraded my main blog. despite all the cool kids in the hackers list saying they never use the rich text editor, i use it all the time. yeah, sure, i can write code, but that doesn't mean it's appropriate to write about my weekend ...

Akismet Excerpts

Engtech and I thought this was an excellent suggestion for dealing with the torrents of spam in the akismet panel, but matt disagrees. Engtech wrote a Greasemonkey Script that implements it browser side. I, being ...

More Plugins and Edits

while trying to make archgfx.net validate, i found i'd broken Related Posts. When there are no related posts, the plugin only calls the wrapper for the post headline, not the whole post. so if you have, like i have <li>title<br /> <small>content</small></li>, your page ...

WordPress CMS: Sane Menus

Over the past couple days i've moved my entire portfolio from static HTML pages to wordpress pages. for the moment i'm using one template for all of them. With static HTML I was using 1 template per project, which let me show only the current project's pages in the side menu, and the list of projects in the top menu. (example). With Using 1 template, it's tempting to use <?php wp_list_pages() ?> to generate the side menu. except that i have A LOT of pages. 38 at last count. So I want the side menu to only show the list of projects, and the list of subpages for the current project.

While I could do something like hiding .pagelist ul ul ul in CSS, and then making .pagelist ul li.current_page_item visible, the nexted lists under .current_page_item always looked kind of stupid, since there's no way to style them individually. So I looked to squible. because I remembered karrde dealing with a submenu that showed other children of the current page's parent. so now my menu looks like this: