WordPress at Made to Order Software!

Welcome on Alexis’ Blog at Made to Order Software Corporation.

This is my first blog! I’m glad I got WordPress to work with the m2osw style sheet. It is quite different from the default blogging board setup! Also I needed to make it work for several people on the same website without duplicating the code each time.

I did make changes to the code in order to achieve this feat. First, I had to access a specific database for each person to have its own blog (this may be just me who did not know how to use all the available features of WordPress, though.)

The following function gives me the name of the blogger. From the name, I can generate a unique database name that the user access (for me, it is blog_alexis).

function get_blog_name()
{
    $path = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    $name = ereg_replace('.*\/blog\/([^/]+).*', '\1', $path);
    if($name == 'wp')
    {
        echo "'wp' is not a good name, sorry!";
        exit(0);
    }
    return $name;
}

Other changes involved mainly adding class names to auto-generated code. Most of the anchor generated by WordPress have no class defined. In order for these not to clash with the anchors used on the m2osw website, I added the “wp-anchor” class.

Of course, I otherwise created a specific theme to get all of that to look like the reminder of the corporate website. As time passes, I will certainly add more possibilities such as access to the archive, categories, etc.