Delve Into Lunacy

Well, I’ve now finished adding all the "WP-XXXX" plugins that I was planning on adding. Both of these last two went in pretty easily. With WP-Print I had zero issues and besides making the image a hair smaller, there wasn’t anything else I needed to do to it. In a final version with a future theme I might want to add a link on the "printer friendly" page so they can get back to the site without having to use the browser’s Back button.

With WP-Email I had surprisingly few issues. I figured I’d have all sorts of trouble getting the actual emails themselves delivered properly but that worked straight out of the box. There were only two problems that I had and both were pretty easy to fix. The first was just needing to update the permalinks structure in the Options screen again after activating the plugin. For some reason, prior to doing that, when you clicked on the email link it would just bring up the "Page Not Found" page and not the email form.

The second problem was when the success, failure or error pages were displayed after sending an email, the sidebar and footer were all fucked up and over on the right side of the message. It ended up just being that in the "Email Options" page where you can modify the layout for those items there wasn’t a closing </div> for some reason. The value appears in the string that is set by default so I’m not real sure why it wasn’t there. Adding it fixed the problem though.

The only thing I might change with WP-Email in the future is adding a link to go back to the main page right below the success or failure message. There is one in the sidebar, but in this case I just think it might look better to include one in the content section as well. Also, if I someday use the pop-up version then I’ll need to modify the window size so that you don’t have to scroll at all.

Anyway, I’m getting close to having the basic setup of the site finished at this point. I finished making my changes to the Widgets plugin last week to show a different "Meta" section (it’s the Navigation section in the sidebar) and added the FallenBlossom logo link. I need to update the About and Contact pages which will include setting up the "Custom Contact" plugin which creates contact forms. After that I believe I’ll be done and ready to start working on my own original theme.