The RSS Feed link, css changes, and WordPress term maintenance were completed today.
RSS Feed Link
The RSS feed was placed into the child theme sidebar.php file so that all sites on the network show the link. This RSS feed brings in all articles from across the network.
The following line of code was added to the sidebar.php file.This fetches the icon as well as directly links to the RSS feed.
Code:
[URL='http://feeds.feedburner.com/UmpcBuzz']RSS Feed/Feedburner [IMG]http://feedburner.google.com/fb/lib/images/icons/feed-icon-12x12-orange.gif[/IMG][/URL]
CSS Code Changes
CSS changes for article titles, read more tag, and RSS feed were completed as follows:
Code:
/* Article Titles */
.entry-title, .entry-title a {
color: #222222;
text-decoration: none;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
.singular .entry-title, .singular .entry-header .entry-meta {
padding-right: 0;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
/* Change the more tag */
a.more-link:link, a.more-link:visited {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #333333;
border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px;
color: #DDDDDD;
display: inline-block;
font-size: 85%;
line-height: 1;
margin: 1em 0;
padding: 0.75em;
text-decoration: none;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
/* Feedburner CSS */
div.feed-link {
font-weight: bold;
margin-top:20px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
Insane Politics WordPress Terms
Traffic on
Insane Politics started to increase over the last few days, yet, WordPress tags and categories needed maintenance. Clearing up the terms should help navigation.
Duplicates were merged and abandoned categories and tags were cleared.
Term Management Tools was the plugin used to merge tags. Tags needing renaming were simply done in the WordPress admin panel. Some slugs needed fixing, and this was done directly in the database.
New WordPress categories were added: Legislative Branch, Executive Branch, and Judicial Branch. Other categories were moved into these parent categories: White House, Congress, etc.
Once the WordPress terms were cleaned up, a navigation menu for the categories was added to the sidebar. The sidebar menu is built from a widget. Select categories are shown in the sidebar which link to pages showing stories for that category. Using the
WP Category Stick Posts plugin, the category pages now show select featured articles.
Category linking to the forums still needs work. The political forums are not built out to match the categories. This will be done in the future.
