Title: Hacks Section
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Hacks Section

 *  Resolved alexkingorg
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacks-section/)
 * I’m working on building the hacks section of the web site here. I think this 
   will be a great resource for the WP community and I’m looking for some help with
   ideas for what categories would make sense.
    Here is a start: CSS Skins (blog)
   CSS Skins (admin pages) Multi-media (photos, audio blogging, etc.) Archives Referers(
   is this enough to be a category? it could be I think) Accessibility (my mobile
   version hack would go here I think) Comments I’m sure I’m missing some and perhaps
   some of these aren’t right. Please add your suggestions, thanks!

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 *  [codergurl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codergurl/)
 * (@codergurl)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacks-section/#post-23894)
 * maybe there should be a category for larger hacks, like script implementations(
   EX: wp + 4images) and crap
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacks-section/#post-23897)
 * an Integrations section, good idea.
 *  [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chris/)
 * (@chris)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacks-section/#post-23898)
 * Alex, I have a lot of old style sheets from my many designs. They haven’t been
   checked over and made all that compliant but I’d love to wrap them up and send
   them over to you to help out with a layout section. I promise to clean them up
   a little 🙂
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacks-section/#post-23899)
 * sounds great!
 *  [paulzag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulzag/)
 * (@paulzag)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacks-section/#post-23929)
 * As part of my learning about CSS I’ve been running through some tutorials. As
   a result I’m building up a collection of index.php/stylesheet.css combinations
   which I’ll happily share.
    You guys may have already figured all this out but,
   I have some questions. Q1. how are we going to share them (link from my webpage
   or send em to you or what)? Q2. Should contributed stylesheets merely work on
   the default index.php (limited) or can/should we use the same functions in index.
   php but play with ordering and div’s? Q3. Can/should brand new contibuted index.
   php be renamed (e.g. nested-float.php) Q4. What about idiosyncracies in the default
   index.php. Two I hate are hardcoded get_archives(‘monthly’) which ignores the
   admin panel and leaving out the calendar altogether. Currently the default WordPress
   setup is for the stylesheets to be in the root directory. I don’t like that on
   my site (as I build tests they clutter the directory). So I’d favor calling the
   contributed index be called description.php and the css in /styles/description.
   css but only if WP devteam are looking at supporting that. Otherwise I’ll stick
   the contributed versions in the root. Hope this is clear.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacks-section/#post-23930)
 * This will be a great addition to the section. I think you should start a new 
   thread on this actually, it is of interest to a number of people who many not
   see it here. I’ll give my answers but some of the other guys may have a better
   idea than I do and will chime in later.
    1. We’ll have a mechanism for accepting them (maybe via e-mail at first) then we’ll
       host them here on wordpress.org.
    2. I’d say both, you can package up a modified index.php and the CSS file together.
       We probably will have an on-line demo of the CSS-only skins.
    3. I don’t know that it matters terribly, we’ll probably figure that out as we 
       go.
    4. I think we should probably fix those. 🙂
 * I agree that the CSS could be in a subdirectory. Depending on how the rest of
   the team feels, that could certainly happen.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacks-section/#post-23941)
 * cool…can’t wait 🙂
 *  [wildduck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wildduck/)
 * (@wildduck)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacks-section/#post-23942)
 * sounds fantastic…
 *  [Cena (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cena/)
 * (@cena)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacks-section/#post-23944)
 * What about either a section or ‘marker’ identifying whether the hack is known
   to work right out of the box? (For example, some b2 hacks seems to work without
   additional modification, others do not.) Or maybe even a WP-sanctioned 3rd-party
   hacks ‘seal of approval’. 🙂
    Additionally, notes on what versions of WP it works
   with, whether db modifications are necessary, ease of use/implementation might
   be helpful.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacks-section/#post-23959)
 * We will only be listing hacks that work (at least for us) and conform to (at 
   least most of) the coding guidelines.
 *  [evenglen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evenglen/)
 * (@evenglen)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacks-section/#post-23975)
 * how about stats. like dodos stats
 *  [otaku42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otaku42/)
 * (@otaku42)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacks-section/#post-23995)
 * Another idea for an additional category: how about “rss hacks”?
    I plan to write
   one that allows to select the category that is included in the rss/rdf. This 
   way one could have an own feed for every category (which might be useful, at 
   least it is for my purpose). As far as I can say this mod/hack wouldn’t fit into
   any of the existing categories.
 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacks-section/#post-23997)
 * You can already do that, just add `?cat=1` where 1 can be any category id to 
   the end of any WP RSS File.

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