June 18, 2009
The latest plugin to be entered into the competition blog is WP Update Message. I quite like this plugin because it isn’t something that I had thought of myself. What it does is to give you the ability to add a styled message to a page or post to explain that you have updated it and what has changed.
I won’t go into the options as they are made pretty clear through the screenshots on the WLTC plugin page, but I think they are comprehensive. If you really wanted something different I think the options would cover anything you might want to change.
I really like the idea of making update messages very visible. The following screenshot shows just how visible they are:
What this plugin does is really very simple so there isn’t a lot to analyse. I did have one problem though. Although it is made clear that it should work on both posts and pages they box to enter a message never appeared on my post page (Version 2.8).
I think you also need to wonder about the necessity of a plugin for creating a box with text in. If you know your CSS this is easily accomplished without much trouble, and, you have to ask if you will need to change your posts so often that you even need a defined way of doing this.
If you think you will, and either don’t know enough CSS, or don’t want to mess about then this is a pretty good plugin for accomplishing a box with some text in though, so give it a try.
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admin
It’s not a menu, it’s a timeline chart of search queries. The primary purpose is not navigation–I get to see what people searched for, the volume of traffic, at a glance.
For most blogs I don’t think menus are necessary, in the age of search and Twitter, most people already have a headline, referral, which takes them to the content they wanted. I think it’s presumptuous to assume I will have more of what you wanted, with a million other blogs writing about the same topic. If you want something else besides what you found here, a Google search, Twitter search will more likely give you the results you want.
In my experience, as a reader and blogger, we rarely use, need a “front door” with a hierarchical menu system, unless we’re exploring a big institution.
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lee
Hey. I don’t want to be mean, but I have to comment on your menu. I think that’ the worst menu design I’ve ever seen anywhere on the internet. I say this for your own sake. Seriously.
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admin
There’s reasoning behind the ultra-simplicity that extends beyond this site, maybe I can explain that in a blog post. But I appreciate the criticism. Because of your “order” comment, I may add some kind of timestamp to the comments. The comments are floated “left” with only the freshest listed (50-100 max, I forget the exact number.) with newest comments at the top.
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Ryan
Borked, as in it looks kinda crazy. Even figuring out the order of the comments was tricky.
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admin
I’m making some changes, yes. Still in transition. But “borked” doesn’t help me “fix” the site.
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admin
Borked?
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Ryan
Are you planning to fix the site? This is totally borked.
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PS: Thanks max for the comment.
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admin
This is PJ, the new webmaster here. I’m not sure if I can help but I will take a look when I get a chance. I was up all night importing the posts here, now all I can think about is sleep, and fixing the broken scripts here :-)
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max
Dear Andrew Rickmann, i have a lil question about the implementation Easy Peasy Images Suggestion Roundup. Is there any way to add the title and the ALT ( which is pulling title for Alt ) of the image..?? Sorry for unrelevant comment..you can delete it but i really need the solution from you to get those answer… thanks for the helps. max