The Code Cave

It would be neat if a browser could only see the categories on a blog that they are interested in.  If the theme could save a cookie with a bitmap of the blogs themes, the user could ignore stuff like  this that they do not care about.  Why would a delphi programmer care about a possible feature I intend to maybe someday include in a theme May or May Not ever get around to writing.

The theme must be able to support pages with internal HTML.

This should be done in a way that can be made a standard for other themes and this should be relayed to the other people in the competition prior to the theme releases.  This REALLY should be a standard for WordPress in general.

 In order for me to create a new page at www.KnitChat.com that fits in with the current blog, all I need to do is wrap PHP or HTML in these two lines:

<?php require(dirname(__FILE__).’/includes/custompage_top_yar.php’); ?>

<?php require(dirname(__FILE__).’/includes/custompage_btm_yar.php’); ?>

If I do that, then I can put ANYTHING in there.  Under the current WordPress pages lay out, you are restricted to the type of content allowed in WordPress posts.  That’s insufficient if you want to create true webpages like: www.knitchat.com\fleet.php or www.knitchat.com\subscribetome.php or www.knitchat.com\useronline.php

An option would be to allow the theme options tab to do it by itself…

It would be nice if one of the categories in the blog could be marked as a “sticky” category. Then all posts in that category would always appear first.  For example, the Hello World post should be the first one on this blog until it is better established.

 You should be able to choose which category will be sticky.

These are ideas I will be putting in a theme I plan to release for the next BIG Word Press theme competition.  I’m not going to be able to do anything about the 2.0 release competitions, but maybe 2.5 or 3.0 in a year.  If you take these ideas and build them into your new theme, please just point a link back to this blog in the read me or preferably in the header code.

Feature one: Optional handling of the blog description and keyword metatags.

The Description meta tag should  done through a check box and an entry field on the theme options tab. 

Keywords should be, if enabled, automatically generated for each post by the category descriptions linked to the post.  Duplicate words would have to be filtered.  If the category description is a bad idea, code the theme add a field to that table or would that be a VERY bad idea?