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So this is a bit of a break from regular programming, I’m not sure that all of you know but during the day I work as a web developer. Currently I kinda *specialise* in building wordpress based CMS websites (ie. using the wordpress blogging platform but making it twist and yield to my every whim). A few weeks ago wordpress released version 3.0 of their amazing open source platform, and I’ve been playing around with it’s new features quite a lot (custom post types! woo!).

Something I found out over the past few weeks that might cause a few other developers less headaches…

When you create your custom post type in wordpress 3.0 and specify a slug for the permalink (and I think, this also applies if you don’t strictly specify that slug), you might get a 404 when trying to access the new post type item that you create (ie. I’ve been creating ‘recipe’ post types that link like… http://domain.com/recipe/postname). There is a SUPER simple fix to this, UNBELIEVABLY simple.

You know how you set up your permalinks in the WP admin? Yeah, that old chestnut, go and re-save. SIMPLES. You don’t have to change any settings, simply go to the permalinks page and click ‘save’… now try and access your previously 404ing page. TA-DA.

Yeah, I have no idea why. Works, though.

Unravel and repurpose, what an excellent crafty idea. Looks like those in charge are having a bit of downtime this month, but I’m excited to see what happens next!
http://www.rekn.it/

Dedicated to the greatest film villain around. The many faces of Alan Rickman.

It seems that I’m on a constant quest for the best To-Do system, I’ve been using an app called mini-task, but it’s not pretty… or user friendly. I thought I’d give TeuxDeux a go, and so far I’m loving it. It forwards uncompleted tasks to the next day automatically, and gives you a section for To-Do’s that you don’t really have a time scale for… nice! it’s visually engaging, too, being designed by Swissmiss herself.

Nice site design and tonnes of font-porn. I especially like the layout of the catalogue, with a giant letter as a thumbnail. http://www.type-together.com/