{"id":17,"date":"2007-04-30T18:30:46","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T18:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/04\/30\/wordpress-bling\/"},"modified":"2007-04-30T18:32:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T18:32:12","slug":"wordpress-bling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/04\/30\/wordpress-bling\/","title":{"rendered":"Running screaming from Slash."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My all-but-comatose music site, <a href=\"http:\/\/rocknerd.org\/\">Rocknerd<\/a>, shudders along on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashcode.org\/\">Slash<\/a>. Using WordPress here makes me not want to kill it with a stick, so I&#8217;ve put a <a href=\"http:\/\/factsite.co.uk\/test\/\">test site<\/a> up. The only tentacle I&#8217;ve found so far is that I&#8217;ll have to learn CSS to make stuff work in whatever theme I pick.<\/p>\n<p>Startlingly useful plugins: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowswordfish.com\/my-wordpress-plugin-library\/admin-drop-menus-wordpress-plugin\/\">Admin Drop Menus<\/a> (really &mdash; install this <i>first<\/i>), <a href=\"http:\/\/thedeadone.net\/software\/tdo-mini-forms-wordpress-plugin\/\">TDO Mini Forms<\/a> (allow post submissions from the big wide world &mdash; essential to replacing Slash), <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-cache\/\">WP Cache<\/a> (though I&#8217;ve hardly the traffic for it), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coffee2code.com\/archives\/2004\/06\/27\/plugin-category-images\/\">Category Image(s)<\/a> (essential Slashalike bling &#8230; once I work out the CSS), <a href=\"http:\/\/txfx.net\/code\/wordpress\/subscribe-to-comments\/\">Subscribe To Comments<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tantannoodles.com\/toolkit\/get-comments-count\/\">Get Comments Count<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Are there any other useful plugins worth trying in order to recreate the shiny bits of Slash without the horrors within?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My all-but-comatose music site, Rocknerd, shudders along on Slash. Using WordPress here makes me not want to kill it with a stick, so I&#8217;ve put a test site up. The only tentacle I&#8217;ve found so far is that I&#8217;ll have to learn CSS to make stuff work in whatever theme I pick. Startlingly useful plugins: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/04\/30\/wordpress-bling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Running screaming from Slash.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}