I implemented a new shortcode to show club profile detail. You can see the short code in action on the MacDolphins web site.
[wpst_club_profile clubid=1 googlemap='y' mapquestmap='yes' link='yes']
This short code can optionally display a Google Map but in order to do so, the Google Inline Maps plugin must be installed. For the short code to display anything meaningful the club profile data must be enterted for the club of interest.
I have yet to code a WordPress theme from scratch. I have found something I like and started from there. For the MacDolphins web site, I had found something simple a while back and it served it’s intended purpose but it wasn’t without issues.
As the site has grown, the need to tweak the side bar in particular has increased. I found an extension to FireFox called FireBug which has made this process significantly easier. I am using FireBug to chase down CSS conflicts and oddities but it does much more than I realized.
My theme now works correctly even if it isn’t visually very exciting. The mouse overs no longer overflow the sidebar for 3rd and 4th level deep menus. I was able to resize the sidebar and the overall content area without things ending up in the wrong spot. If you dink with themes, FireBug is really helpful.
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