A loooooooong list of album links - is gone
Setting up the new website design has been fun, but also a pain. Forcing WordPress to do what you want is always a challenge, and usually involves a bit of hacking, but the great thing about that is every time I think “I need to be able to do this“, somebody else has usually done it and posted a plugin or a hack somewhere that’s easily found by google.
For instance, I decided to post all 10 Dave Ryder Band albums and Dave Ryder (solo) albums, even though several are not finished. This requires a separate “page” for each album which WordPress was forcing to show the link for in the sidebar.
Enter Garrett Murphey with his excellent page link manager plugin. It is very cool, and now you only see the albums link in the sidebar, which when you click takes you to a page with 10 album covers. Clicking any cover takes you to that album’s webpage (which is hawesome with a capital HAW). heh.
Oh, and regarding the Album covers - some are only temporary like the C.Y.B.O.R.G. cover - that is a weak attempt used now mainly as a placeholder until our resident art genius Paul Becker gets time to make something better. And there is time, the actual album won’t be released for around 6 months, but we are posting some demos up on the page soon, and the storyline as it develops (it is a concept album like Electric Man and Inner Travels. And Ghost Voices, which I’ve always said will be considered my masterpiece, and which I have been working on for over 10 years now, but that’s a beast of a whole ‘nuther burden - there are no demos, or anything for that matter, up on the Ghost Voices page and that is not likely to change in the near future).
And finally, the RSS feed is working now, and there is a pretty blue icon you can click to syndicate this website, but for some funny reason clicking the text “syndicate” next to the icon only takes you to daveryder.com (huh? that must have been a 3 martini lunch decision, WordPress guys).
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