I reached a milestone today. I have the portfolio project filtering completed. So on the portfolio page you can select a project category, and the jquery isotope mumbo jumbo will filter out those projects and show only those. Cool right?! I think so.

I had some problems with the filtering initially, but then I realized I had deleted the portfolio-group tag. Once I added that back in, the filtering worked like the Black Magic it is.

Ya, so when I began making the comments.php code I didn’t expect I’d have as much trouble as I did. I figured it would be super straight forward. It turned out I was surprised by how WordPress uses the Settings->Discussion options. I posted a wordpress.stackexchange.com question. So here’s the full story…

Oh wow! I have never been so frustrated looking for answers in my life. The documentation for WordPress – imho – is atrocious. Granted it can apparently be learned mostly~ in the course of five days. Don’t get me wrong! I am not an expert by any means, but I’ve figured out a great deal. I started on Saturday with minimal knowledge of php, and absolutely no clue how to create a WordPress theme, from scratch no less! Here we are on Wednesday, and my bootstrap converted theme is ready enough that I feel okay putting it onto my live site.

I purchased the domain, and it was auto-magically configured for me. First thing I did was download a copy of my live site. The idea here was: if I simply edit the website itself my life will be easy.
So my working directory looked like this:
D:/Portfolio/Website/cppcooper.com
D:/Portfolio/Website/template


Now, I still didn’t really have any idea what I was doing. So I found a tutorial on converting a bootstrap template to wordpress. I skipped the first part of the tutorial. I decided I’d be better off jumping into some code.