Permalinks are a necessity in today’s online world. With the speed at which information is moving, it needs a way of always being referenced to without it “disappearing”. Permalinks are nothing more then a URL that will always point to the target information, regardless if it moves or not. WordPress has a built in permalink feature for posts and pages which works as intended. Unfortunately, permalinks are permanent, and if you don’t plan ahead, you could be stuck with a permalink structure that you do not like. I initially thought that the permalink structure I had setup on my website was well thought of and practical. However, in practice, I changed my mind and wanted a different permalink structure. I also didn’t want to break any links people had already made to my site. Here’s how I went about it…
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One of the things I wanted to do when integrating Gallery 2 into WordPress (using the WPG2 plugin) was to be able to see, on the main page, all the latest pictures posted in my gallery. The WPG2 plugin only supported displaying the last item added, and I could not find anyone else to have done this. So, I wrote up a quick hack to perform this function. It’s not pretty, but it does the job. Feel free to use it for your own site.
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I support web standards, which is why I chose WordPress as my CMS of choice. WordPress declares itself as a “state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.” It’s also written in PHP, which is my programming language of choice when it comes to designing web applications. Overall, after having set up this website, I have found that WordPress (tries) to be W3C compliant in terms of XHTML and common web practices, and is also not that hard to customize. In this post, I will detail the steps that I took in creating a custom theme for WordPress.
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