Named so for lack of a better idea.
Drawn with ink, colored with Photoshop.
WordPress: How to Sort Category Archive Posts by Subcategory
By default, WordPress sorts posts in reverse chronological order, with the most recent post being at the top and the least recent at the bottom. Normally, that’s totally cool, since that’s the way we’ve been accustomed to reading blogs, but what about when you’d like a little more organization?
Let’s say, for example, we’ve got a Music category with music genres as subcategories and posts specific to those genres organized respectively:
- Music
- Rock
- “The History of AC/DC”
- Hip Hop
- “What Ever Happened to Bell Biv Devoe?”
- Pop
- etc
- Jazz
- etc
- Rock
When viewing the Music category archive, these subcategory posts will be displayed all mixed in together and in reverse chronological. What we’d rather have is each subcategory given its own individual listing of its posts, prefaced by an H2 title and subcategory/genre description. We’ll order the subcats alphabetically; their posts chronologically.
Hansel Memo Pads
My girlfriend, in a never-ending quest to take cooler classes than me when I was in college, made me some memo pads with a Flash tracing of Hansel on them for a Comp Apps Graphic Arts assignment.
Coolio.
Dino Tweets
Here’s the product of my experimentation with SimplePie, a PHP class for parsing RSS feeds.
http://dinotweets.iamnotagoodartist.com/
It’s called “Dino Tweets” and it collects the six most recent, public, English Twitter tweets containing the word “dinosaurs” and displays them next to a robot-shaped dinosaur.
For whom is this useful? Nobody, really.
Jim Halpert
I found this. It’s old.
If At First You Don’t Succeed…
Make, make it smaller.
I promise I work on things besides hastily-crafted-looking little robot guys, but nothing’s done enough to write about.
Wirebot Prototype
Prototype for a “Wirebot” toy made form terra cotta, acrylic paint, glaze, and wire.
Since this picture was taken, its right arm has fallen off. Terra cotta, while cheap, has got nothing on Sculpey… especially since I don’t have a giant kiln.
Tommy and the Tommies Concert DVD
The DVD I made last year of my Tommy and the Tommies show is now available to download as a disc image with rad menus and a hidden encore.
Get it up in here: http://tommyandthetommies.com/dvd
Oh, and let me know if it doesn’t work… haven’t tested it yet…
Alpha x in Clay
Beeftrain 2.0
I’ve updated the old Beeftrain Incident site to run on WordPress, lovingly dubbing it “Beeftrain 2.0.”
It comes complete with an index page video box (a la the P! Company), an organized video category listing, non-IE-compliant PNG drop shadows, and a semi-matching custom MySpace skin.
Site: http://beeftrainincident.com/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/beeftrainincident