After spending so much time upgrading and improving Muskblog. I decided to break down and add some feeds and widgets to the rest of my domain. I’d already done this for nurgle.muschamp.ca however I did things slightly differently the second time. For one I used a bit more PHP. I changed my home page from a .html to a .php file so that I could make direct calls to SimplePie as it makes adding RSS feeds to a webpage/website, as simple as pie…

So I’ve continued to tweak the sidebar.php file that controls the rightmost column on this blog. I still have a bug in my WordPress install where conditionals are not returning the correct, documented, expected results. However I’ve worked around that, I hope it will go away completely. In the mean time there is a handful of debugging code in my sidebar.php file, I can live with that, I’m not trying to win any design competitions…

Another day was spent hacking away at Wordpress and in particular on my WordPress theme which five years ago I dubbed “MuschampTabs”…

I’ve been doing some Googling on various WordPress and other Internet trends. I really should have done more with my blog and website, but I had a lot of issues to deal with in the last few years. Now things are stable in some ways, but since I’m unemployed not stable enough. I’ve spent the last five days doing a crash course on WordPress, PHP, and plugins. I still have a bug or two, but my custom WordPress theme is cleaner and leaner than ever…

I just spent all evening changing my sidebar.php, that is the chunk of HTML and PHP that makes the stuff to the right of the text appear and work…