help wordpress templating

[rezzy]

Hello all.

I am working on making my wordpress blog, I came acorss a plugin that generates all the differeent types of content types for the blog. I know cant find it!

Has anyone come across a way to insert all comments, posts and other content to test your css too?

Also there are several different ways someone can come upon your blog, whats the best way to close those entries points?

[orion_joel]

Possibly one of the better ways to protect your blog from people visiting it is to put the install in a password protected directory on the web server. Most hosts i believe allow this someway or other.

Is it really needed a plug in to add test data, it shouldnt take to long to add in 2 or 3 fake posts, and some comments on them. All you would need to do is ensure that for text styling have every possible option in one of the posts, so that you are truly testing everything.

[rezzy]

True, but I was looking for new plugins and came across it. Just wondering if anyone used it or had any tools for Wordpress template creating.

[vangogh]

Bryan instead of a plugin try this sample content file. It's an xml file of sample content that you just import into your blog. It should have everything you need.

WP Candy is also a great site in general and worth subscribing to.

[seolman]

Another great tool for tweaking CSS in Wordpress (and any site for that matter) is a slick little add-on for Firefox called "Web Developer". It adds a toolbar to FireFox. You select "View Style Information", then select any page component and a window pops open indicating the exact stylesheet affecting the page component and the line(s) where you can find the code. It's awesome for making quick changes to page layout.

[rezzy]

Another great tool for tweaking CSS in Wordpress (and any site for that matter) is a slick little add-on for Firefox called "Web Developer". It adds a toolbar to FireFox. You select "View Style Information", then select any page component and a window pops open indicating the exact stylesheet affecting the page component and the line(s) where you can find the code. It's awesome for making quick changes to page layout.

Yes I have that plugin, and Firebug also which gives added javascript error messages. Plus it uses Yahoo's Yslow and can help you find whats slowing your website down.

[rezzy]

Bryan instead of a plugin try this sample content file. It's an xml file of sample content that you just import into your blog. It should have everything you need.

WP Candy is also a great site in general and worth subscribing to.

Thanks Steve. That was exactly what I was looking for! And it showed how incomplete my blog is. I am working on a v. 3 to my site and wanted to do this one right.

[vangogh]

Glad I could help point you to it. I had read that post and grabbed the file not too long ago so it was still fresh in my mind.

[seolman]

Yes I have that plugin, and Firebug also which gives added javascript error messages. Plus it uses Yahoo's Yslow and can help you find whats slowing your website down.

So I'm preaching to the converted!

[rezzy]

So I'm preaching to the converted!

Yep. I search the site all time for plugins that can help me work.