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I have updated to the latest wordpress and managed to break a couple things in my theme. The way the new category system works is confusing me. Firstly my “Desired Functionality” plug-in is likely no more.. I just don’t want to have to fight with it…

But I’m now having to figure out how the heck to do the whole parent::child categories thing.. again.. This was the reason I made the plugin in the first place and since they have completely redone everything, I don’t want to have to figure the new system out..

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The theme that this theme is based on, “Oceans Mist” had a number of problems that I wont go into.. however one of the biggies was its inability to correctly display archives.

Basically if you had any more than 10 items (or however many you have your WP set up to display in the admin area) they just wouldn’t show up. There was no way to page back through those archives. This is lame, and I’m fixing it.

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I have tried many different content management and blogging systems. None of them have impressed me with their ease of use and functionality nearly as much as WordPress.  I really like wordpress – the price is right and the product is good.  It’s a fully featured package with as much functionality as you want, and if you don’t find the functionality you need, you can always write it in, in the form of a plugin.  Kudos WordPress.

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I have gone ahead and customized the permalink structures from something vague and cryptic to something a little more human readable.  This is something that I had wanted to do for a while but had never really looked into.  Come to find out it’s supported directly by wordpress and all I had to do was change the permissions on a couple of files to make it happen.. It’s easy when you know how – and reading the instructions sure does help.

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Well I have been dinkering around in the CSS of my theme trying to clean some of it up.   It’s an extremely uphill battle.

It has become clear to me that whoever wrote the first version of the CSS that Ocean Mist used, didn’t understand the concept behind CSS.. or at the very least didn’t understand the C (Cascading) in CSS.  CSS can be a beautiful thing if used properly.

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NOTE: This plug-in is dead with the introduction of WP2.3+ ..

The desired functionality plugin is a collection of .. well .. desired functionality that wordpress for whatever reason either is lacking completely, or in my opinion does poorly. Much of it will be things that I wanted to fix in the wordpress core, but I don’t want to hassle with the source repository (as it’s a mess and things don’t seem to get done in a timely fashion).

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