Driving my Inner Geek Insane

January 21st, 2008

I’ve been playing with my theme and kind of broke it a bit.

So if it looks wonky, come back in a sec, and it will be different.

I’m wishing I had some php skills right now.

I have a great WordPress plugin to share with you as soon as I get my header.php back where it ought to be.

Reading time is minimal. Why not vote?

UPDATE:

What we have now is a drop-down dynamically-populated navigation bar, courtesy of a WordPress Plugin which you can read about here
This page only shows the simple code for your pages, but I wanted to have my archives and categories out of the sidebar, so I picked up my code on this page. Last item on the page is the one I used.

I have to clean up the appearance of it. The font is too large for my liking and I may mess with background colours.

It was very simple to implement. The problem that I had was when I messed with my header code, and uploaded the unmodified file. Der. Have backups on your hard drive. You can always get your original theme file if you want to go back to scratch.

I’ve been wanting to clean up my sidebars for quite a while now, to prepare for the time that I put up advertising. Since nobody loves my donate button, I figure ads may be the way to go. Mama wants her hosting fees paid. And a decent camera. And a laptop.

Even in my shameless hollering for votes and/or Stumbles, I have not promoted the teeny, tiny donate button. And, I don’t plan to. I put it in so I could have a customer correct her order for purple plates easily.

Now go vote for me in the blogger’s choice awards. *Grinning at Teeni*
And show me your new navigation bars. Please.

UPDATE PLUS:

Ryan Hellyer has streamlined his code, so that you can choose your options right on his page,and now you only have to add one line of code. If you are using his plugin in a live site, he will link to you.
I’m going to change mine, because who doesn’t love one line of code?

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22 Responses to “Driving my Inner Geek Insane”

teeni Says:

LOL. All of your shameless vote whoring cracks me up! :) I’ll be back later to check for this plug-in you speak of. Hopefully this evening. Don’t break anything else while I’m gone! ;)

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kaylee Says:

Don’t be breaking the blog now ;) I want too see this plugin :P

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January 21st, 2008 at 3:19 pm

talina Says:

Playing with your theme is fun, but it’s annoying when you break it huh? I always FTP my files to my computer before messing with anything so I have a working copy in case I break the one I am playing with- I do that lots!

Have fun with your theme playing! I voted for you and gave your shart so link love today! Take care…

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January 21st, 2008 at 3:47 pm

Just Beachy Says:

New Plug-in I LOVE NEW PLUGINS….

What and why were you playing with your header.php

Does it have to do with the NEW PLUGIN????

HEE.

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January 21st, 2008 at 4:08 pm

Just Beachy Says:

ahhh. I see. Remove this line from your header file.

div id=”page_header” a href=”http://psychicgeek.com”>Psychicgeek/a/div and you should be good to go.

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January 21st, 2008 at 4:26 pm

iamthediva Says:

ah yes, wordpress is ever so tempting…

twitter January 21st, 2008 at 5:26 pm

Ree Says:

I like it!

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twitter January 21st, 2008 at 5:55 pm

Ryan Says:

Cool! Nice to see you are using my plugin :)

If you have any requests for changes, or would like help with it in anyway just leave a comment on my blog and I am happy to help. I haven’t spent a lot of time on this plugin and there’s lots of things which ‘could’ be done with it that I haven’t gotten round to yet … http://ryanhellyer.net/2008/01/14/suckerfish-wordpress-plugin/

To edit the font size, all you need to do is open the file ryans_suckerfish.css and edit the font size under #suckerfishnav. If I can figure out how, I might add an option to alter the font size in the admin panel, but I’m not 100% sure how to do that right now so it won’t be available for a while yet.

January 21st, 2008 at 6:53 pm

Ryan Says:

One more thing. I see you don’t have a home button in your menu. If you want one, just leave me a comment back on my site and I’ll rustle up a new demo (with code) with a home button added.

January 21st, 2008 at 6:59 pm

Manuel Says:

I bow to anyone who can use wp…….it beat me all over the house one horrible weekend…….never again…….

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January 21st, 2008 at 9:06 pm

kaylee Says:

that is a great new bar :)

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January 21st, 2008 at 10:20 pm

cookiebitch Says:

Love the navigation bar. Need to find a way to do that on typepad. I’ve learned so much from you! Gonna start calling you Yoda :)

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January 21st, 2008 at 11:45 pm

Zhu Says:

Every single time I play with WP, I wish I were php litterate!

What you did sounds interesting… should give it a try.

Good geek girl!

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January 22nd, 2008 at 12:02 am

teeni Says:

Oh, I like the dropdowns a lot – they definitely save a lot of space. Your blogroll is interesting now too – it shows three random sites at once and each time I refresh the screen it is three different sites. I’m definitely gonna be asking you for help when I start getting paid hosting.

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twitter January 22nd, 2008 at 12:29 am

Suckerfish WordPress Plugin | Ryan Hellyer Says:

[...] http://psychicgeek.com/ If you are using this in a live environment then let me know and I’ll post your link here. [...]

January 22nd, 2008 at 3:27 am

kailani Says:

It looks great to me!

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January 22nd, 2008 at 4:11 am

Just Beachy Says:

LOVE IT. now all I need is time to implement it… do you think they have a plug in for that?

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January 22nd, 2008 at 8:21 am

Ryan Says:

I did a substantial upgrade to the plugin tonight. I’ve made the default setup similar to what you are using here and have made the code required for the template far less complicated. This will (hopefully) make the plugin more appealing to noob WordPress users. It should be in the Official WordPress plugins directory soon’ish too, which will give alerts when new versions are uploaded. Although the old version should function fine for the forseeable future. Upgrades will probably just include functional improvements. The plugin is pretty basic so there’s not really anything that could (AFAIK) go wrong security wise with it.

http://ryanhellyer.net/2008/01/14/suckerfish-wordpress-plugin/

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January 22nd, 2008 at 8:21 am

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January 22nd, 2008 at 10:09 am