What's the HARDEST theme stuff to do in WordPress?

[Otto]

@Otto - I don't disagree with your last posts at all, but I can still see reasoning behind making it easier to modify markup on a per page basis. Of course there is rarely a use for that and I certainly don't understand how Carrington actually makes it easier, but the concept is sound IMO.

I fully understand the concept and the reasoning, and even (somewhat) how it could be accomplished.

The difference is that I think that such a thing "should be considered harmful". It's a bad idea, and it should be actively discouraged. IMO, of course.

[Ryan]

The difference is that I think that such a thing "should be considered harmful". It's a bad idea, and it should be actively discouraged. IMO, of course.

I think you are looking at this from only one angle. There are definite uses for granular control over page HTML. Just because there is little/no use in such functionality on 99.5% of all WordPress powered sites doesn't mean that it should be discouraged.



I still don't get how on earth Carrington helps with this, but hopefully it will all become clear in time.

[Jeffro]

Hardest thing for me to do in a theme is to add code from plugins into the theme so that the plugins output displays where I want it. I need to know where the loop is and place code within this special section of code. If I don't want this edit deleted during a theme upgrade, I need to add the code to functions.php.

Dan Coles plugin looks like it could help me with this problem but that's been the hardest issue with themes for me.