Layered Thoughts

So in both my own personal projects as well as projects I’ve been working on with other people, I’ve gotten to know Wordpress pretty well. It’s a surprisingly powerful platform, and while it does have its shortcomings (like sidebar management), it can be transformed into a pretty powerful CMS platform if the right tweaks are applied. So lately I’ve started keeping track of all of the different little “off the beaten path” tricks that I use somewhat frequently on Wordpress setups, especially on sites that are meant more as CMS sites than typical blogs.

Some of the tricks might seem brain dead simple and leave you wondering “Why are you showing me this?” while others I hope are things you might never have heard of. But the purpose of this series is to simple build up a pretty complete set of tips and tricks that someone using Wordpress as a CMS can reference when working on their own projects.

I’ll try and go into a little bit of explanation for each trick for both why you would use it as well as why it works the way it does. That way, you’re not just copying and pasting code into your site, you’re actually learning from what is going on. So tomorrow is the day I’m planning on kicking off this series. I have a good amount of tricks saved up so far so I’m going to try and post every other day or so to get this series full of all of the good stuff.

I’ve been busy working on a few projects lately but have been keeping pretty good notes about a bunch of stuff I figured out a long the way so get ready for a barrage of tech/programming/geeky oriented posts coming into this weekend…there’s going to be some good info though about stuff that I figured out from relatively sparse, scattered information on the internet so I’m hoping I’ll be able to help someone out if they had any of the same problems that I did while trying to do something similar. That was a long sentence.