Pardon the mess… I just upgraded WordPress and now a few things on the site aren’t displaying correctly. Everything should still be perfectly funcitonal, they’ll just look a little funky for awhile.
Update: The problem with upgrading is that various aspects of the site require alterations to core WordPress functions. I just spent the last couple of hours trying to figure out how to make what changes I need via plugins and I’ll be damned if I can figure it out.
Part of the problem (I think) is that the changes I’m making require altering functions that the WordPress API currently has no hooks for, meaning that the only way to alter htem is to do so directly. Which is bad, ’cause that means everytime I upgrade WordPress I have to go back and make the same changes all over again.
Prior to WordPress 2.6 I was doing the hacks directly in the core files, but now that I’ve upgraded I’ve taken the marginally better step of placing all of the hacks in the functions.php file that accompanies the site theme. It’s not perfect; I still have to modify the core files, but now I’m simply commenting out the functions I need to modify, copying them into functions.php, and making the necessary changes there.
If anyone reading this knows a lot about WordPress: is there some easier way to modify the way WordPress outputs category, page, and link lists? The functions that handle the building of these lists seem to be pretty low-level and inaccessible via API hook. I’m probably (hopefully) missing something, but I haven’t seen anything in the documentation that shows how I would get to these functions.