Windmill Web Work

A big advantage of WordPress over PivotX is the availability of custom entry types in WordPress. PivotX doesn’t have this (and here I should probably insert the word ‘yet’). However, as always, nothing is impossible! We can make PivotX do what we want it to do with a little hacking in the core, and the [...]

Although I use WordPress for this website & blog, I still think PivotX is actually a way better blogging tool. In the past, I’ve made a bunch of  ’Themes’ for PivotX. All of those are available on the PivotX Themes Website. The problem with that website is that it doesn’t display a lot of features [...]

To celebrate the upcoming release of PivotX 2.1.0, Windmill Web work has released a new theme for PivotX, called ‘Wichita’. After ‘Philadelphia’ and ‘Baltimore’, this is the third theme named after a US city (once you’ve started a tradition, you should stick with it). This time, the theme is red, black and white, with some [...]

Template tags in PivotX often come with a lot of ‘extra features’ that you can use to your advantage when you’re making a template. A good source of information is the PivotX documentation, and then in particular ‘Appendix B‘, which describes all the template tags.

If you read a blog, a lot of times you’ll see the introduction of a blog entry on the front page of the blog, followed by a ‘Read more’ link. That link will take you to the full text on the entry. In a PivotX template, you can place that ‘Read more’ link in a [...]

After years of using Pivot and – more recently – PivotX blogging software, I have moved the Windmill Web Work website to WordPress. Although I love PivotX as a blogging tool, it is not very widely used. WordPress on the other hand, has a huge following, and is used by millions of professional and amateur [...]