Upgrade, Shmupgrade

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Comme lors de chaque mise à jour wordpress, c'est la prise de tête. Plugins, thèmes... il faut vraiment que je mette de l'ordre dans mon site!

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Like each time I upgrade WordPress, I find myself facing the sprawling mess that my site has become, and the umpteen hacks made to template and plugins to get things working roughly how I want them.

So I think: time to clean up! Get rid of K2! re-write plugins, so they insert fun things in my themes without me having to put them in by hand all the time!

And then it all goes down the drain, because I try one theme, and another, and another, and none really fits, and I don’t want to yet again go through the half-dozen addition of template tags to make my blog bilingual and shiny. But I do want it bilingual and shiny, don’t get me wrong.

I want to use sandbox. I’d like to adapt my Basic Bilingual plugin so that it injects lang="fr" and lang="en" where necessary. I want a clean layout, and I still like my blue header image of Ouchy (pronounce “ooshee”, please).

I have tons of things in the sidebar, and they need to be laid out so they don’t look too cluttered (a challenge, yes, I know).

I want my tag pages to link to technorati, maybe show my flickr photos with the same tag, or my del.icio.us links.

I want ajax-ification so that I can correct spelling mistakes and add/remove tags without going to the admin interface (Inline Tag Thing looks promising, but I’m not sure I like the interface).

Sigh.

Maybe I should just start a CTTS design contest. Give out prizes. Something like that.

Or stop wanting to push my blogging tool where it isn’t yet? I don’t want to give up.

Update: for the curious, the temporary design is Diurnal, a sandbox skin. The colours change with the time of day — pretty neat in my opinion.

14 Comments

  1. Posted 11/29/2007 at 10:14 pm | Permalink

    Sandbox is great.
    For Ajax, I use WP Ajax Comments, which is quite good.

    Good luck for the work :)

  2. Posted 11/29/2007 at 11:03 pm | Permalink

    Actually, I don’t care much about AJAX comments. What I really want is AJAX post editing :-)

  3. Posted 11/30/2007 at 5:19 am | Permalink

    Ajax comments lets you also edit your own posts.

  4. Posted 11/30/2007 at 9:11 am | Permalink

    Now that’s interesting. Wasn’t obvious from the name. Thanks a lot for the tip.

  5. Posted 11/30/2007 at 2:41 pm | Permalink

    T’as une URL pour ce plugin, STP?

  6. Posted 11/30/2007 at 5:54 pm | Permalink

    Other changes I’d like to do with plugins:

    • archives, categories, and tags “index” pages (like what I’ve done now)
    • provide full posts in archives (date/category) instead of just excerpts
    • remove pagination from archive pages
    • provide yearly archive (with excerpts, this time)
    • provide “digest” archives with just post names, or post names + excerpts, by month/year/category

    More coming, I’m certain…

  7. Posted 11/30/2007 at 7:42 pm | Permalink
    • provide “digest” archives with just post names:

    http://justinblanton.com/projects/smartarchives/

    dans un autre style:

    http://www.sonsofskadi.net/extended-live-archive/

    je me penche sur ta bannière d’oushee ce soir :-)

  8. Posted 11/30/2007 at 8:22 pm | Permalink

    Oh, merci! N’y passe pas la nuit tout de même ;-)

  9. Posted 11/30/2007 at 11:04 pm | Permalink

    Voilà la page
    http://www.raproject.com/wordpress/wp-ajax-edit-comments/

  10. Posted 11/30/2007 at 11:23 pm | Permalink

    En revanche j’ai eu un bug étrange en postant le lien, j’ai eu une page avec une erreur php, un captcha, et quand je l’ai rempli, sans me tromper, il m’a dit que c’était erroné et qu’il ne me restait que 4 essais

  11. Posted 11/30/2007 at 11:42 pm | Permalink

    Ah, étonnant… le lien a été posté, pourtant. Tu as une saisie d’écran? C’est peut-être Spam Karma qui déconne.

  12. Posted 11/30/2007 at 11:43 pm | Permalink

    A part ça tu es certaine que ce plugin permet d’éditer le corps des billets? Je ne vois ça indiqué nulle part dans le descriptif.

    J’ai essayé de l’installer et ça a foiré, donc je préfère vérifier avant de m’acharner.

  13. Posted 12/3/2007 at 1:45 pm | Permalink

    Je pense effectivement que ça venait de spam karma, mais non je n’ai pas de copie d’écran…

    En fait, ce n’est pas indiqué dans la doc, mais sur le blog où je l’ai installé, le corps des billets se surligne en ‘jaune éditable” comme les commentaires.

  14. Posted 12/3/2007 at 2:12 pm | Permalink

    OK, alors je vais de nouveau tenter l’installation! Merci :-)

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