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With the ps-wii-elite engine revamp  95% complete, lets have at what once was so.

A Bit of History

Before I introduce some of the new features and site ethos, here is how things used to be: theme archive

The dyadic-night implementation (above) was really where ps-wii-elite really started to take shape. Driven by blogging and wordpress experience the theme matured to be both crisper and more accessible. Read..

Time for another wordpress mod driven by the ongoing ps-wii-elite theme revamp:

Since the advent of wordpress 2.5 the built in gallery system has a habit of deploying a “nice” chunk of bespoke css slap bang in the middle of your web page, where it cannot be reached/styled by normal methods.

Many folks have developed plugins to remedy this factor however I prefer to remove it completely, time for another wordpress hack:

wp-includes>media.php  contains the evil code around line 641, detailed as follows:

$output = apply_filters('gallery_style', "
<style type='text/css'>
.gallery {
margin: auto;
}
.gallery-item {
float: left;
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
width: {$itemwidth}%;}
.gallery img {
border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;
}
.gallery-caption {
margin-left: 0;
}
</style>
<!-- see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php -->
<div class='gallery'>");

Simply edit this to equal the following, thus removing the css:

$output = apply_filters('gallery_style', "
<!-- see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php -->
<div class='gallery'>");

The gallery can now be styled in the usual manner using the following definitions:

.gallery {}
.gallery-item {}
.gallery-icon {}
.gallery-caption {}

Simple eh.. I have left things pretty raw at this stage as I am planning to add some thickbox deffinition functionality at this point.  This was another Wordpress hack brought to you by dyadica.net.

There have been a few changes here at dyadica.net over the last few days, primarily involving color. Cornily entitled the abyss I’m about 80% through the theme revamp, however doubt is already setting in.

Initial focus behind the current change was to combat some of the old themes non intentional contrast issues, that have been highlighted by a few folks. For reference and comparison here is a picture of the old setup:

Now I really liked the gray theme however feedback indicated that things could look a little washed out… ho humm. Read..

1. Posts from page title.
2. Sub titles for sidebar (general).
3. Search page template (functionality revamp).
4. By Date (missing day data).
5. Conversion of all get_links() to wp_bookmarks().
6. Addition of new focus list on Root page.
7. Implement dynamic banners (custom fields for header A/B).
8. Use the above.
9. Hunt out enclosure field ???
10. Go to top for section links on archive filters.
11. Define and populate info page.
12. Sort out comments (still).
13. Investigate multi color for <ol>.
14. Add CSS for blockquote.
15. Investigate page text wrap.
16. Expand use of intro post field across posts in addition to pages.
17. Investigate Flash/Shockwave expansion issue.
18. New sub domain mobile.dyadica.net.
19. Create splash page for network root (www.dyadica.net).
20. Missing image on archive links.
21. Add featured links to archives (maybe)
22. Populate by links page.
23. Populate by highlights page.
24. Add featured to tutorial page.
25. Add Latest additions to tutorial page.
26. Investigate tutorial page layout (maybe full width).
27. Thumbnails for TBG section.
28. Comments link at post bottoms (still).
29. Update existing posts to correspond to new setup.
30. Swap link title on splash.

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Due to last nights shenanagens I have decided to start a little spring cleaning (early bird and all that). There are still some areas that vitally need addressing to improve both the ergonomics and functionality of this site. You know those bits that you will do later etc.

I have started by removing the Archives list from the root page (1). Really if you want to delve into the archives there is more than enough functionality provided by the papertrail and the main archives page.

The purpose of a root (snapshot) page should be to capture the interest of new visitors and provide veterans with immediate access to new content. Realistically at present this one is far to er.. hectic or eclectic which ever floats your boat lol.

I have also decided to remove the wiisource collective (2) completely (content can easily be accessed via standard surfing: tags, cats archives etc) and replace it with new focused projects and tutorial pages. The first of these being the wii connect project detailing the wiimote windows driver I am currently developing.

The plan is for all wiisource content to migrate to a bespoke sub domain (3) ala wii.dyadica.net. This will make things easier to find and let those who are solely wii orientated to avoid the general blog.

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