I had to try and find a way to show the second level of the pages in the sidebar, but also keep the second level (child) when you click on a third level (grandchild) page, and that proved to be quite a challenge. Did a lot of searching and testing on my site before I found a way.

Example of how I wanted it (selected page in bold):

-Subpage
–Subsubpage
–Subsubpage 2
-Subpage 2

After a LOT of searching Wordpress forums and stuff I finally found the solution. The Flexi pages widget with the default option “List sub-pages only in parent and related pages in hierarchy”, and just excluding pages on the first level (parent) did it for me. Excellent widget. Get it here.

As I’ve implemented this site I’ve realized Wordpress is a bit limited compared to what I’m used to, but I hope there’s some better solutions than I’m already using. I’ve basically figured out that it’s better to get it how I want it with some crappy hacks than nothing at all, so until I learn better ways, that’s the way I do it. These are hacks for left sidebar menu and top menu.

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I’ve been scratching my head for some time about the image upload problem. The error message I got was “Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads/ Is its parent directory writable by the server?” I read a lot of solutions, everything from disabling PHP safemode (which was disabled) to setting .htaccess rights. What finally solved it for me was to set uploads and containing folders as CHMOD 777. Hope someone finds it useful.

As I was trying to change an option in “Settings | Reading” I got a 403 error. I was searching all over the Wordpress docs and forums until I finally found a link to the solution. Go to Hackosis to read it.

Update: The link is now not working and I can’t remember exactly how to fix this issue.

I’m writing this as a sort of reminder to myself. These are some handy Wordpress bits to solve things I need as I develop this site how I want it.

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