Got a lot done yesterday at the expense of the laundry, which now consists of two piles: the clean and unsorted towering on top of my dining room table, and the dirty, stinky boy stuff perfuming the laundry room.
- Figure out the “static page as home page” concept. Discussed at the WordPress forums here. BLEW OFF IN FAVOR OF OPTION NO. 2.
- …or figure out the “single category template as home page” concept. DONE, thanks to Ryan Boren’s plugin.
- Customize my error page. DONE. It took some time, though, because WordPress kept rewriting my .htaccess file. I reset the permissions again; we’ll see if that takes care of the problem.
- Replace tulip photo. DONE. I really like Dinny’s photos.
- Fine-tune the color theme to match the new photo. Eh, I’d say that’s DONE.
- Change icon colors. DONE, and may Photoshop Elements rot. Had to buy a book and that didn’t even help me figure that one out, because the Photoshop manual is totally useless. It was easier to just create new icons.
- Fix the sidebar fonts. DONE.
My new WordPress To Do List:
- Figure out pings and trackbacks. My brain is having a difficult time wrapping itself around the difference.
- Arrange the links the way I want them. Do I make them more bloglike? Or more standard site-like?
- Figure out RSS feeds. Perhaps it can replace my mailing list at Topica (which has suffered quite a bit from spam filtering)?
- Meet my writing deadline.