Do you see this image right here? It’s a screenshot from the custom code form in Textpattern. This is the way it should be… a form that creates a template tag based on what I need it to do.
I’m working on a Wordpress site right now and I’m really irritated because I don’t have the template tags memorized, so I have to look them up. The only problem is, Wordpress’ manual stinks like an egg sittin’ in the sun on the Fourth of July.
Seriously, here’s how it goes…
- I click over to Wordpress’ “Docs” section and look under template tags for a tag to call the list of archived posts. It’s not under template tags.
- So I look under a few more categories that I think might have something to do with template tags, lists, etc. Nothing.
- I go to the search bar and look for “archive list” - Nothing
- “archives list” - a bunch of forum posts and wordpress blog entries that mention archives and lists, no pages from the docs section (the manual).
- I try “sidebar” to get real general and see if there’s a page in the manual that talks about the sidebar area - NOTHING. Nothing for the word “sidebar”? Really?
- Finally I give up and go pull up the default Wordpress template and grab the code from the sidebar of that template.
All this for one stinkin’ piece of code. In Textpattern I would have pulled up this handy window (shown above) and tell it my specifications, then copy and paste the code it gives me. Easy as pie. Now, after all of that, I still have some respect for Wordpress because it really is a decent system. My main gripe at this point is that when I search for something, it searches everything in their database. There ought to be an “advanced search” so that you can search just the docs section.
