Coming Soon

Features Coming Soon

I have compiled a list of features that I particularly liked the look of, and hopefully will one day be able to place onto my blog. You can also suggest features that you would like to see on my blog in the comments area.

Urgent

  • Firefox Bugs
    • Firefox does not display the header title as desired (no colour gradient). Is there a CSS fix for this, or should I use pictorial text with clever css/html text styling behind?
    • Firefox does not display the css gradient first-letters of each main menu item. Need a better fallback option.
    • Firefox on Windows OS does not recognize positioning of body’s second background picture. OSX Firefox does not have this issue.
  • Heading tags and styling appropriate to content area. This includes heading 5 to 6 (which has not yet been done).
  • Style features such as pull quotes.
  • Style custom post types. Currently only “standard” is supported in the theme.
  • Add Related Posts.
    • Add the following code to the related posts section, in order to display a default image if no feature image is available. “In order to use default images when no post thumbnail available, replace with <?php if (has_post_thumbnail()) {the_post_thumbnail()} else {echo ‘’;} ?>” – from http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-add-related-posts-with-a-thumbnail-without-using-plugins/ Then put a default-image.jpg under your themes’ image folder.
      • A default image will need to be sourced. Perhaps use the same picture as “Hello World” – dubbed Scout the Werewolf?

Whenever

  • WordPress comments hacks - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/23/10-wordpress-comments-hacks/
  • A navigation menu (in the footer) with links to other parts of my site (such as this “Coming Soon” page, and the “Known Faults” page. Perhaps have this area dynamically generate content, rather than being a pre-set menu.
  • Highlighting within the menu area to show which area is being viewed. I.e. if the “About” page is being viewed, then the “About” link in the navigation will be lit up in some manner.
  • A custom login screen for the back end of WordPress (i.e. the login page for users and administration staff). This page will fit the current theme of KatSkinner.com. Currently users aren’t enabled for sign up.
  • Make the comments area background extend 100% no matter what level of threaded.
  • Create a code that pulls in information from external resources – such as my twitter status – and posts on my blog. Perhaps utilize the different post types and their individual styling ability?

Features Added

Completed 20 June 2011 – Version 1.1

  • Fully converted Swirls Galore theme from Carrington theme framework to Theme Hybrid framework. THIS WAS A MAJOR UPDATE! Version is now considered 1.1.
  • Added language translations throughout website. People speak more than just English. WordPress should do this automatically.
  • Breadcrumbs for navigation.
  • The thumbnails for posts are now cropping automatically (previously they would distort to fit css styling).
  • The thumbnail images aren’t cropped, rather they are squished.
  • Added the “Disqus” commenting system (using plugin) – huge overhaul of WordPress original’s commenting system. Fallback option for standard WordPress commenting system available.

Completed 28 April 2011 – Version 0.9

  • Navigation pages for the previous and next posts does not work on the main pages (i.e. home, search, etc).
  • Fixed Firefox navigation bug where height overflow caused a scrolled bar. Set overflow to hidden, and scroll bar no longer appears.

Completed 13 March 2011 – Version 0.8

  • Font weight (bold) does not work. This had an issue with styling (I had planned for the bold <b> tag, however wordpress defaults bold to the strong <strong> tag. I changed style sheet accordingly.
  • Styling for sub-lists (or lists inside of lists) now works correctly. Originally the sub-lists text was rendering larger than any other paragraph text.
  • Make the editor in WordPress (for posts and pages) WYSIWYG. Tutorial on how to do this can be found at http://digwp.com/2010/11/actual-wysiwyg/
  • Added Google Adsense to the default sidebar. Current ad is 300 pixels wide.

Completed 11 March 2011 – Version 0.8.2

  • Added About page content.

Completed 9 March 2011 – Version 0.8.1

  • Enlarge the font sizes of both heading 1 and heading 2…. plus style heading 3 to 6.