This site is built on Wordpress (version 2.7 at the time of writing) and the following is a dump of the problems I came across when putting together this site. If you have similar problems and need more detailed solutions drop me a line.

Here we go:

1. The wp-typogrify setting that adds extra   s breaks nextgen gallery when you have more than one gallery on a page

Solution: It’s not a big deal so I disabled the wp-typogrify setting. Otherwise it would be hackery into the wp-typogrify module.

2. Getting pixel pattern transparent gifs to line up!

Solution: Gah! Had to create slightly different images that are offset by a pixel, and, well it doesn’t always work the same across all browsers. Good grief to think that I was thinking of a more crazy theme with more complex patterns instead of the chosen differing “transparencies”. Come to think of it I may end up trying to implement that… also I had to use tables for certain parts of the design - yeah, yeah, if table-cell was better supported I would be doing it that way.

3. The pager doesn’t work properly if you shift the main blog posts to something else like /blog/

Solution: It’s a bug! Patch can be found here. Hopefully this will fixed in Wordpress 2.8.

4. WP Super Cache didn’t work out of the box

Solution: Had to step through the FAQ suggestions. I would say it was to do with permissions on the wp-content directory at time of installing the plugin.

5. Hacked modules stopped working when upgraded.

Solution: Well duh - how embarrassing! Don’t hack the modules themselves. Just work around it in the theme. Move along - nothing to see here!

6. Getting background images that work

Solution: I originally thought that most backgrounds would work with the faux transparency, however, backgrounds that are very bright, very dark or have dithering of their own look rubbish. So I just had to put an hour into selecting background images instead of 5 minutes.

7. Need at least 5 posts to make front page look ok.

Solution: Get busy, don’t tell anyone about website until more than 5 posts!

8. Getting the latest image thumbs to perfectly align left and right in three columns

Solution: Wrap the output from nextgen in a table. Again, if only table-cell was better supported. *sigh*

9. No spacing in Twittter Tools output

Solution: Well you can either hack or regex. In this case a hack was more suitable.

9. Tags and long headings went over the edge of the design

Solutions: Oops. Thankfully that heading really was too long and the tags mostly useless. Style : 1, F orm : 0