http://www.infonautics.ch/directorylistprint/

So here I am at a new forefront. Time to start building this badboy!

Here’s a list of the things I need to learn and the steps I see I need to take:

• Change the Tagline.
• Change the Timezone.
• Delete the default post and page.
• Rename Uncategorized Category: to Articles
• Rename the Link Categories: to Links
• Delete The Blogroll
• Change The Permalink Structure: to /%postname%/
• Change Size of the post box to 20 lines (Settings>Writing)
• Learn whats the best for site setup: http://www.kb.com or http://kb.com.
• Learn about security considerations.
• Install amember.
• Choose a default theme.
• Choose 5 starter themes for sub blogs.
• Figure out how the main blog works so that I can control the front interface of the site.
• Determine which plugins I need.
• Test adding a blog from the admin.
• Test adding a blog from the main page.

That seems like a pretty good start. Let’s roll!!

I was surprised at how easy it was to move the posts!

So after a simple export and import, my plugin posts are all now moved over to the new site location!

Now I just need to go in to the keganball.net database and delete all the current plugin posts.

As I was working with the site I realized that the plugins being mixed in with other posts was making it difficult to find what I was looking for. So a separate database that still is closely tied to the main site seems much more reasonable.

So now my next step will be to transfer all those posts for the plugins that I’ve already added to keganball.net over to plugins.keganball.net.

Customize the Now Reading Reloaded plugin so that it displays the books in a more suitable presentation.

Solution:

Now Reading Reloaded home page

http://heliologue.com/projects/now-reading-reloaded/

http://wordpress.org/tags/now-reading-reloaded

Extending Now Reading – Part 1 (I like his theme)

http://davidedwardsphotos.com/blog/2009/08/11/extending-now-reading-part-1

Tweaking the Now Reading Plugin

http://davidedwardsphotos.com/blog/2009/08/07/tweaking-the-now-reading-plugin

Create a Template for the author pages generated from the Now Reading Plugin.

Solution:

<?php get_header() ?>
 
<div>
 
	<div id="content">
 
	<div>
 
		<?php if( can_now_reading_admin() ) : ?>
 
			<p>Admin: &raquo; <a href="<?php manage_library_url() ? rel="nofollow">">Manage Books</a></p>
 
		<?php endif; ?>
 
		<?php library_search_form() ?>
 
		<p><a href="<?php library_url() ? rel="nofollow">">&larr; Back to library</a></p>
 
		<h2>Books by <?php the_book_author() ?></h2>
 
		<?php if( have_books("author={$GLOBALS['nr_author']}&num=-1") ) : ?>
 
			<ul>
 
			<?php while( have_books("author={$GLOBALS['nr_author']}&num=-1") ) : the_book(); ?>
 
				<li>
					<p><a href="<?php book_permalink() ? rel="nofollow">"><img src="<?php book_image() ?>" alt="<?php book_title() ?>" /></a></p>
					<p><?php book_title() ?></p>
				</li>
 
			<?php endwhile; ?>
 
			</ul>
 
		<?php else : ?>
 
			<p>There are no books by this author!</p>
 
		<?php endif; ?>
 
		<?php do_action('nr_footer'); ?>
 
	</div>
 
	</div>
 
</div>
 
<?php get_sidebar() ?>
 
<?php get_footer() ?>

http://heliologue.com/projects/now-reading-reloaded/comment-page-5/#comment-177884

A way to modify templates, etc. in such a way that the modifications are not lost with an update.

Solution:

As ovidiu said, you can make a folder inside your current theme called now-reading, and the plugin will prefer the templates in there to its own.

http://heliologue.com/projects/now-reading-reloaded/comment-page-5/#comment-178579

Cleverness To-Do List
I googled ‘todo list plugin’ and the third listing is the ‘Cleverness To-Do List’ plugin on the cleverness.org site. http://cleverness.org/plugins/to-do-list/

I read the description and it seems to be plugin meant to be used by admins on a WordPress site but it also has a widget and shortcode that will allow me to put it on a page/post. So this would satisfy my need to have it displayed publicly.

So let’s try it!

I installed and activated the plugin to discover that it appears to have 2 options menus. One under Tools and one under Settings.

The options under Tools is the list itself. And the options under Settings is the settings for the plugin.

I didn’t see any plugin options that I wanted to change.

I need to know what the shortcode is so that I can place the list on a post.

After reading the shortcode descriptions on the plugin home page I was able to put together the string I wanted:
[todolist title="Todo List" type="table" priorities="show"]

After looking at it and playing with it for a bit, I don’t like that I can only have one big list. No categories or separations. I deactivated it for now.

WP Ideas
I installed and activated the plugin. The options is listed as ‘Ideas’ under Posts menu.

The plugin is getting an error. Deactivating and deleting.

Post Todo List
It placed an options menu item called Post Todo List under the Settings menu.

The options were very basic. It appears that this allows you to have a todo list for each post using the ‘ [post_todo]‘ shortcode.

When I clicked save on the options page it told me I needed to upgrade to WP 2.9.2. Since I really don’t have much going on with this site, I figured it shouldn’t hurt too much.

WordPress was giving me errors after I put in the shortcode. Deactivating and deleting.

List Manager
After installing and activating there is a Lists menu item under Posts.

When I click on it the Lists menu item it takes me to a page on my site and states that the page cannot be found.

I went to the plugin home page (http://www.navidazimi.com/projects/wp-lists/) and found that the plugin requires a file to be in both the plugin folder as well as the admin folder. I manually copped the one missing from the admin folder. When I clicked on the Lists menu again it works!!

So I click on Create New List.

I added a few items to the list. Seemed to go fairly smoothly. Now I need to figure out how to get it to show on my page.

I tried to use a long string of shortcodes:
<ul>
<list id=”1″ showlinks=”true” showchecked=”false” odd=”odditem” even=”evenitem” attribute=”count” attribute=”countchecked” />
</ul>

But it didn’t work. I got a ’0′ on the page.

In the end I settled for:
<ul>
<list id=”1″ />
</ul>

Now I have a todo list on my site so I can be reminded of what I want to work on and to share that with others.


My goal here is to find the best plugin for giving users easy access to the categories and their contents.

These are the competing plugins:
EZY Nav Menu
WordPress Menu Creator
Ajax Category Posts Dropdown
Folding Category List (FoCaL)
Wordpress Folding Category List – Lonewolf Designs http://www.lonewolfdesigns.co.uk/focal/
Wordpress CSS Drop-down

EZY Nav Menu
I installed the plugin. Then went to look for a way to use it. Nothing readily apparent. So I go to the plugin website.

After reading the directions it tells me to add a ‘nav’ category. I also read in the comments that it doesn’t seem to have the ability to add categories to the menu. So we will put this on hold for the moment. I’m deactivating the plugin.

WordPress Menu Creator
This one talks about categories in it’s description. So there is hope.

After installing and activating the plugin, I looked for the options and found it under tools.

I tried to add a menu and it looks like you have to do it all manually which is what I am trying to avoid.

Deactivating this plugin.

Ajax Category Posts Dropdown
After installing the plugin, I looked for a way to work with it. No options menu. Went to the installation instructions on the plugin download page. This appears to be just a widget. I’ll try it. Didn’t work well at all!

Deactivating.

Folding Category List (FoCaL)
After activating this plugin, I easily found the options. Didn’t see any options to change at this time. I added the widget to the sidebar. Can’t seem to get it to work. When I click on the top level category it goes to the page for that category but doesn’t expand the child categories.

Deactivating.

WordPress Folding Category List - Lonewolf Designs
This one seems to be the same as the last.

I decided to veer off a bit and do another Google search. I came across Collapsable Menu. I’m installing it. No options menu. Read the directions. Tells me to put this code <?php wp_list_categoriesex(); ?> in my sidebar.

I tired to put it in a text widget. Nothing. I tried putting it in my sidebar.php as it instructed. Nothing. Deactivating.

Collapsing Categories
I found ‘Collapsing Categories’. It has an options menu. I added the widget. It has a lot of options.

I can’t believe it! It actually works!!! And it works well. Finally!

So at this point it doesn’t look like I will be able to do what I initially wanted to do which was to have my categories as a link in the main menu at the top of each page. But in the end, I did find a useable plugin that will allow me to have my categories on the side bar. I am pleased with this solution.

The first thing I to do is to install ‘Top Level Categories’. I want to make sure I start out right. I have decided that I don’t want the word ‘Categories’ in my path in the address bar. I just want www.keganball.com/software/wordpress/  This is to simplify things.

After installing ‘Top Level Categories’ and testing to make sure it doesn’t show up, by clicking on each of the categories, I noticed that when I click on the ‘Software’ category nothing shows up.

I’ve put the first part of this post into the ‘Software’, ‘WordPress’, and ‘Setup’ categories but it only shows up when I click on the ‘Setup’ category.

So if I want it to show up under all three I will need to do some more research to see if there’s a plugin to do that. Of course I should give it some more thought and see if maybe it’s better to only have it in the one child category.

Other than that minor question, the ‘Top Level Categories’ plugin seems to work just fine. It removes the word ‘categories’ from the path in the address bar.