Ramin, I’ve become a real fan of your blog. The Leaflink interface is nice-looking!! You’re quite the client-side bad-ass!

Ramin,
Ludo just sent me your email (for future reference, the AdminOptions plugin is all my fault!). Didn’t notice the authors were missing, the Kubrick template is still a little rough around the edges.

You can take a look at the default template for some template tag hints. Here’s a snippet that displays the author’s name with a link to all of their posts:

posted by <a href="{option_url}/{option_author_prefix}/{post_author_login}"> {post_author} </a>

The template engine is something that Ludo whipped up. Simple but effective. A plugin “howto” is forthcoming…

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This email has been sent because you have comment_spam_kill and comment_spam_mail set to true in your config

Oh, and don’t believe what Jerome says, as without his initial review and subsequet development/brainstorming efforts LightPress would still be a hacked together script.

As for PEAR, we only use the base PEAR class (mainly for its error handling and destructor), the DB and Template layers are written for LP.

We have a long way to go still (management plugins and better WP integration, backend, etc.), but we think LP is already quite usable.

Oh, and whatever you need just ask, a project without user input is dead. :)

Yes, LP is definitely a lot cleaner with its code, its design, its xhtml, etc. They even use some PEAR packages to abstract the DB layer. Not sure what templating engine it is using, but there is no PHP code within the templates at all.

A little difficult to put in little hacks here and there (like my random image script I put together in 2 lines of php code to load different header images), but it enforces better coding practices (and we developers should always strive for that!)

Definitely give it a try.. its totally risk free (I sound like a salesman.) To play around with it, just copy your current WP files to another folder (in your case, maybe ditchnet.org/lp) .. download the LP files and just upload them to that folder. I didn’t even bother to keep my old .htaccess or index.php files. Then all you gotta do is modify the config.php and change the baseurl in your .htaccess file and that’s it. Read through the install just in case I forgor something.

Once you get everything up and running, you can go in and tweak things as you like. I modified the kubrick header to my own (I don’t know what inspired me to do that ;-))

If you have any questions, ask myself or better yet, the developers themselves. They are very helpful and usually response very fast. Good luck! =]