Ousting frustration!

Argggggghh! ??

I’m sort of working on a sort of plugin. I’ve played with the two plugins that can put an icon into a post which matches the name of the category, but I didn’t like them. For one thing, they were way to static and I didn’t like how they worked: you had to add an extra field to your post and then put the name of the icon there. Ick!

What I’m working on now is a (static) solution…simply a PHP case/switch which takes the name of the category and then puts in the right icon. Once I’ve got that working, I’d like to make it dynamic, as in a PHP page that will list all the names of the categories that exist and then link an icon to the name of the category. What I haven’t figured out is how to position the image on different blogs with different skins (another thing I didn’t like about the other plugins: it was either “left”, “right” or “center”).

It’s just been a while since I’ve written PHP or worked with it more than just changing templates around. The C and C++ knowledge is really helping. It’s just…. argh! Frustration! ??

Feel free to tell me anything you like… this kind of distraction is welcome!

And if you want to see my strange attempts while I’m at it: https://www.iwannabeme.nl