I just had my first real experience with wordpress’s PHP functions. I’ll say right now that I don’t like their documentation. The reason is, let’s say you are looking at the documentation on the get_posts function, as I was. The examples there mention lots of other functions and properties in their examples, such as “$post->ID”. However, there is no link readily available to find out the other properties of “$post”! My best guess was to google suggestive names (like nice_name), which gets you to the page that describes this object (I can’t even find it now!).
But that gripe wasn’t my point. I wanted to point out some new features on my NYC Facade blog: more dynamic pages. The most expedient way of creating, say, lists of links to begin with was to simply use a sidebar widget. But that’s stupid, because I want people to use the sidebar for navigating within the site; you’ll only hit a link once, but you’ll have to stare at it for every page you visit!
So as you can now see, I created pages that show you Newest, Complete List, and Links. I did each of these by assigning to a blank page a Wordpress Template that I created in the Theme Editor (is there any way to create a new template through the web inteface without manually creating a file in the theme directory first?). Then I went crazy with the PHP functions by modifying the theme files I already had and also by looking into plugin source. I can share it with you if you’re curious, although it’s really easy stuff.
One thing I’d still like to do is add tags to the Complete List, but I can’t seem to make that work (it’s not possible that the “get tag” functions only work in The Loop, is it?)
