As tnorthcutt mentioned, you may want to use custom post types. However, you should also take a look at custom fields, which will allow you to specify bits of dynamic custom data that you want to associate with each page. Here’s Smashing Magazine’s tutorial on custom fields, Nettuts’ tuturial (and video), and a list of … Read more
Credit definitely goes to @kaiser, but here is a full working solution. You can add this code to your functions.php file (in your theme): function wpse_edit_footer() { add_filter( ‘admin_footer_text’, ‘wpse_edit_text’, 11 ); } function wpse_edit_text($content) { return “New Footer Text”; } add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘wpse_edit_footer’ );
If memory serves, Drupal’s lead dev summed things up like so last summer: Drupal is, on the UI front, where WP was 3 years ago; and WP is, on the feature front, where Drupal was 3 years ago. My own experience with WP and Drupal are basically so: WP has a prettier/easier UI. Drupal is … Read more
I found a solution that works for me! I dropped this code in functions.php : add_action(‘admin_head’, ‘my_column_width’); function my_column_width() { echo ‘<style type=”text/css”>’; echo ‘.column-mycolumn { text-align: center; width:60px !important; overflow:hidden }’; echo ‘</style>’; }
@Tal Gailili: Absolutely, WordPress would be a great platform for a CrunchBase clone! Use Custom Post Type and Custom Taxonomies What you want to look at are Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies [see this answer I gave on a very similar subject]. Example Code for your Company’s Post Type and Taxonomies With WordPress 3.0 … Read more
The killer feature that caused WordPress 3.0 to cross over from an extensible blogging tool to the CMS for 8 out of 10 needs is Custom Post Types (with the addition of Custom Taxonomies from v2.9) with an honorable mention going to the new Menu system in 3.0. So if you want to learn WordPress … Read more