Wordpress Test 9 - 2.6

This post was filed under four categories instead of just one. Let’s see how this theme deals with that one. Some themes will break slightly or even miserably, especially those who are extensively styled, with round edges and whatnot, and where the area containing the category names is a fixed box rather than a flexible area. If you DO like to post under several categories, or have long category titles, and the theme you’re viewing now doesn’t handle that well, then you should look out for another WP theme. Fixing an issue like this can be tedious at best and would be different for each theme, so we aren’t even trying to post a fix for that. Usually, the more styled a theme is, the less flexible it’ll be.

January 19th, 2008 | Tags: multiple categories for single post | Category: A sub category, Another Category, Another sub category, Uncategorized, Yet another category |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

This post sends trackbacks to posts on several other blogs (in this case the other WP Theme Drive test blogs, namely the WP 2.5 Test Blog, the WP 2.3 Test Blog, the WP 2.2 Test Blog and the WP No Subs Test Blog). The blog that you are currently on will get a few trackbacks from those other blogs as well. The purpose is to see the styling of trackbacks on the receiving end.

To send trackbacks yourself, scroll down on the Wordpress editor screen to the field “Trackbacks“, and fill in the trackback URL(s) of those other blog post(s) that you want to trackback. You can find these URLs when you visit those other blog posts, there should be a link named “Trackback” below or above the post. Right click on that link and choose “copy link location” (or whatever you get to see on your OS/browser combination), then paste that URL into the “Trackback” form field of your own post.

Trackbacks are basically comments that you make on posts of other blogs, but you make those comments with a post on your own blog, instead of going to that other blog and leaving a comment there, in the old fashioned way. The owner of the other blog will be automatically notified of your “trackback” post (if you have filled in the “trackback” URL of HIS blog post into the trackback field of YOUR blog post), and may or may not approve and publish your trackback post (an excerpt of the trackback post you wrote on your own blog) on his blog, along with the traditional comments.

January 5th, 2008 | Tags: trackbacks | Category: Uncategorized, Yet another category |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Leave a comment