A couple of days ago I stated that I hadn’t yet begun looking for a navigation link plugin for WordPress yet, because I imagined that I could write one just as quickly myself rather than sift through a zillion plugins that all do the same thing in addition to suffering from bad cases of optionitis.
But I didn’t exactly start to write a plugin after I penned that. Nor did I start to look for one.
Until today. Writing one that is.
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been posting very long (sometimes too long that I had to split them up in several posts) articles, that I wrote ten years ago, over at my swedish site. That mean lots of content, paragraphs and headings split up over five or ten pages per post. So I was in desperate mode to create table of contents to ease navigation and provide better overview for my visitors.
When we’re already at it. Molly Holzschlag (yes, I had to look up the spelling — just remember “type of wood” til’ next time) held a session during @media 2006: “Internationalisation: Awakening The Sleeping Giant”. Available as mp3 for audio and slides for visual sensory pleasure.
Also, don’t forget to take a look at the W3C internationalization working group web site mentioned in the session.
I have made my swedish translation for Sandbox available as sv_SE.po and sv_SE.mo. You only need the later unless you intend to modify the translation.
Even if you are using english as standard on your blog, you can still benefit from gettext to modify some wordings without changing any of the template files. For the purpose of demonstration I’ve uploaded the en_US.po and en_US.mo I’m using on this very blog as examples.
I was curious knowing more about the Lipton brand of tea, and the Yellow Label Tea in particular (I’m sipping on a cup while I type). So I ventured over to Wikipedia and this stood out to me:
Available in over 110 countries, Lipton is particularly popular in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Africa and parts of Asia.
So you say Lipton isn’t particularly popular, where? Antarctica?
I have not yet been looking for a navigation link plugin for WordPress. But I imagine I can do one just as quickly myself rather than sift through a zillion plugins that all do the same thing in addition to suffering from bad cases of optionitis.
Right now in addition to the usual rel-stylesheet (for CSS) rel-alternate (for RSS feeds) and rel-pingback (for pingbacks) there are also a rel-start resource link in the header pointing to the home page of the blog.
Here are some additional relational resource links and types to consider.
For a day or two I have been whining about Sandbox on Andy and Scott’s blogs and in my gettext post. Why? Because I recently “jumped on the Sandbox bandwagon”. Making me boast to friends that I’d switched to a theme that made the site look exactly like as before! While they were staring at me in a way I only could interpret as awe.
The theme really reinvigorated my interest in designing for WordPress since it bring a lot of power to the CSS while giving you harsh constrains on the markup (constrains are good, too many choices result in angst, limitations release creativity). And Sandbox do have the promise of becoming the CSS Zen Garden of WordPress.
So I have decided to collect all my Sandbox “issues” and track theme here in this post.