multiple themes
I thought it would be a great idea to have my various categories each have their own theme. This way it will only have those related posts, and then a master blog where one can see everything.
After searching and searching I discovered that someone created such a thing in 2006
http://download.mikelopez.info/2006/10/17/wordpress-themed-categories-plugin/
Then he updated it recently! “Hooray!”, I thought. The answer to my problem.
No dice.
So begins the first adventure in the WordPress puzzle. This is why I wanted to hold off on giving up LJ. I knew that I’d have to worry all the time about upgrading or compatibility, or hosting issues. Ugh. So here I am, two hours wasted of my life and still nowhere.
I did find a comment that resembles my problem exactly:
On April 14, Louis wrote: “It turns out the table themed_categories (defined in tc_install) were never created for some reason in my case. After manually creating the table using phpmyadmin, everything is working fine now.”
What does that mean!? I just don’t get it. It took me a while to figure out that tc_install was referring to “themed_categories” . I downloaded previous versions of the plug-in, deactivated other plugins thinking maybe there was a compatibility issue. I discovered too that ‘categories’ is a word I apparently misspell. I kept spelling it catergories.
I emailed Louis, and hopefully he’ll be able to shed some light on this issue. In the meantime I’d better keep to writing things on paper to dream up my ideal themes and categories..
I already have a list, and I’ll post it once I narrow it down and come up with a way to showcase all these genres in an elegant manner.