Comments for Idealien Studios

Comment on Premium or Proprietary Themes? by Idealien (Idealien (Jamie O))

Idealien (Idealien (Jamie O)) — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:40:14 +0000

@oakcomputing I have – Just re-reading my comments from 2008 when GPL and proprietary vs premium last came up – http://bit.ly/gZ3Tg

Comment on Template – Frequently Asked Questions by Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:21:10 +0000

It's done with the category description field within a category.php template file. Check out http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/category_description for examples.

Comment on Template – Frequently Asked Questions by Alex

Alex — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:47:33 +0000

Hey, I would like to obtain something similar to what you have here: http://idealienstudios.com/projects/ice/
I don’t know if this is a category page, but what I need for my blog is to have a different explanatory text for to each category archive of my blog. Here you have the short text at the beginning ” Idealien Category Enhancements…” styled the same as the posts that follow it. Maybe this is not done with your plugin, but I’d appreciate a reply.
Thanks a lot.

Comment on Template – Frequently Asked Questions by Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:21:04 +0000

Thanks for the praise Sarah. Need more info to be able to offer any help to resolve your issue:

What version of WP do you have it installed on? It works with 2.9.2 and below currently with no issues.
Have you tried it (temporarily) with all other plugins turned off?
What (if any) other plugins do you have installed that relate to categories or themes or templates?

Comment on Template – Frequently Asked Questions by Sarah K

Sarah K — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:36:18 +0000

Awesome plugin! Working great, except for one little (and slightly annoying) glitch.

The plugin works wonderfully when I select a template while creating a new category, but doesn’t if I go into the “Edit” page of a pre-existing category. It allows me to select the template from the drop-down menu, but when I click save it doesn’t save it. This has lead me to having to re-create any of the categories I already had (including sub-categories) in order to get the templates to apply.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Comment on Solving a custom field query quandry by Jason

Jason — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:20:11 +0000

Thanks for this, I have been struggling with a solution to this sort of problem. As web designer foremost and only code solutions as a last resort, this sort of help is fantastic.

Although i am using Custom Field Search plugin, i will try and adapt it and integrate this code if possible.

In one short google search i find this site and the links you provide to be exactly what i am after. Much appreciated.

Comment on WordPress is not YET an enterprise-level CMS by Idealien

Idealien — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 04:23:10 +0000

Just finished listening to 1 of the 4 part podcast on Commercializing Wordpress from WPTavern WPWeekly and come away very inspired. Amongst those plugins that immediately caught my ear were the Edit Flow project (aka CoPress) for workflow management towards newsrooms.

Comment on WordPress is not YET an enterprise-level CMS by Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:06:54 +0000

Chris – You are right that very little of the features / functionality a large business would be interested in has to do with public-facing areas of the website. They “could” run their website with a text-editor and FTP client. But most believe that the back-end content development / approval process they ~~require~~ want limits the tools they could consider to publish a site.

I agree that “Enterprise-level” is a mostly generic term to set the sales narrative for the scale a system could support. However, when the bulk of WordPress narratives written on the web could be paraphrased as “WordPress is a blog platform”, I still think it is important to highlight just how versatile it is that it can be easily customized to support so many different use cases.

Comment on WordPress is not YET an enterprise-level CMS by Chris

Chris — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:43:08 +0000

I spent over two years working for an agency with their own proprietary “enterprise-level” CMS. WordPress kicks the everliving crap out of that thing.

Also, “enterprise-level” seems more like a sales and marketing term than a useful descriptor. Plus, most of the things you’ve listed don’t really affect the public-facing areas of the website, with the notable exception of custom data types.

Comment on WordPress is not YET an enterprise-level CMS by Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:04:23 +0000

Thanks Michael. It got a good laugh which is what I was hoping for.