Stoney Creek Web Design
Web Design – Rochester, Michigan

One of the flaws that I think exists in the newest version of WordPress is that the administration dashboard no longer includes references to ID numbers.

These ID numbers are useful for identifying which category, page, or post a particular entry is identified with. The WordPress in_category() function, and others, utilize this ID number as one of the parameters for the function.

I have written an article about this over at 1955 Design. Please check it out if you would like to discover a solution to this problem.

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Project Complete: I just completed a simple but attractive website for Rochester MI city council candidate Jeff Matis. The website is built, once again, with WordPress as the backend. Using WordPress allows the site Admin to add, edit and delete all of the page content. In fact, he opted to used WordPress as a simple CMS and to not even use the blog feature of the software.

The structure of the site is quite simple, and the look is clean and professional in appearance, which is exactly what the client wanted for his political campaign. As normal, the site is written as valid XHTML strict, valid CSS and Section 508 compliant as well. Please stop over and take a look at www.JeffMatis.com.

Thanks for the project, Jeff. I hope your campaign is successful!

Note:Â This project was actually completed by another business of mine, 1955 Design. Regardless of the designer name in the footer, I created the website myself!

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I have always thought that one of the main flaws of many WordPress themes is that the main page navigation, when called by using the wp_list_pages() function, applies a title to each of the navigation links with whatever value is used in the the_title() of that particular page.

Don’t get me wrong, this is a good idea, but because of the way most navigation links are designed, the page titles need to be quite short and not very descriptive. Similarly, these themes tend to also use the_title() as the main H1 or H2 tag for the page display itself. In other words, if the navigation link says “Home”, the page title for that page usually displays as “Home” as well. This may be the way a designer wants it, but often it seems that a more descriptive page title is what’s really needed.

Stop on over at my other blog and read more about this great WordPress technique.

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