I’ve been working a lot in Wordpress lately, and it started to dawn on me how powerful the software is. I can only imagine what’s coming in Wordpress 3.0. The power I’m referring to specifically, is the ability to use custom fields with posts/pages. This basically allows an editor the ability to associate related information with a entry or record into the database. As a simple example, visualize splitting an entry into 3 variations: Full, summary, tease (or large, medium, small) and have every thing encapsulated in the same database record. Here on ChrisDigital’s Digital Designer Blog, I’m using this in the Bookmark links section to grab the “referrer”, “source” and their URLS from each post. This is very cool…
Blogging kids, something to think about
I’ve been kicking around the idea of starting a blog with my son. He’s an old soul at the ripe old age of 11 and in the middle of a lot of stuff “tween” boys think about. What really caught my eye about him is that his Aunts call him all the time when they need to get a present for a child in his age group (his mom as well) and he takes his advice giving seriously. So we’ve been kicking around some ideas for a while now of what to do together. Besides, he’s really interested in what his old man does for a living and this is something we could share…