The Simpsons Exchange has been revealed, finally! I started working on a new website in January 2009, and it’s been slow going ever since. Grissom hopped aboard, and Johnsy was here too, so now there’s a decent bit of content going. In the past three years, I’ve been slowly working on revamping the cars page from my old site Screaming Yellow Honkers, and I am quite proud with what’s there at the moment. Keep checking back, as I will be adding more now that my schedule allows me to.

As you may have noticed, almost every page has its own left sidebar. By the time this site opens, all of the pages will have their own variant of the left sidebar. It is manually added in through the use of CSS. To implement such a sidebar, simply paste this code into the editor box on the Dashboard, placed before any text. Make sure that the editor is in HTML mode, as accessing it through the visual editor will break the code and remove the <divs>.

<!– Begin Left Sidebar –>
<div id=”kj5″>
<div id=”cars-by-brand”></div>
<div id=”leftnav-items”>[ kp8]</div>
<div id=”more-from”></div>
<div id=”leftnav-items”><br />
<ul><li><h2><a href=”../../tag/9F19/” />Click here to see <br />all pages associated with this episode.</a></h2></li></ul><br />
</div>
<div id=”leftnav-bottom”></div>
</div>
<!– End Left Sidebar –>

The <divs>, though seemingly just a jumble of letters and numbers, are actually organized by group to make page editing easier. I have made a glossary of each of the variables:

• kj5 – The div for the left sidebar
  • jf2 - left sidebar on the main page
  • kg5 - content box for the pages
• cars-by-brand – the div for the top image of the left sidebar; can be changed depending on the page
  • grabpics-by-section
  • wallpapers-by-section
  • about-the-webmasters
  • more-lists
• leftnav-items – the div that contains the text on the menu.. Should always be within <ul> and <li> tags to preserve formatting
• kp8 – PHP include Shortcode for the text on the left menu
  • kp8 - Cars
  • kf5 - Lists
  • kr9 - Grabpics
  • ay7 - Current Season
• more-from – All episode-specific pages should have this additional menu category on their pages. All episode-specific pages should be tagged with its production code
  • <ul><li><h2><a href=”../../tag/9F19/” />Click here to see <br />all pages associated with this episode.</a></h2></li></ul><br /> – This should be changed to the episode’s production code; it allows all pages associated with that episode to be listed on one page.

kp8, kf5, and kr9 can be edited by accessing the Theme Editor from the Dashboard. These menu-specific theme shortcodes will eventually cover all of the other files where many pages use the same menus.

Adding Images

To add images such as Grabpics, Framegrabs, and Promo Images, do not add them to the individual pages via HTML. In the dashboard, at the bottom of the left-hand menu, select “Gallery,” then “Add Gallery / Images.” From there, follow the prompts to upload an image and place it in the proper gallery. Multiple images can be uploaded through the browser at one time.

To add images via FTP, simply upload all images to /wp-content/gallery/GALLERYNAME/ and select “Scan for new images” on the “Manage Gallery” page on the Dashboard.

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