Jim

First, thank you for reading my rather complex article.

Mr. Bennett, sometimes I might not want a header or a loop; I just want a landing page full of text widgets or divs. Or maybe I want to have a menu at the bottom. We do not want a plugin to fight a template, do we?

Several themes already do this. Catalyst has gone pretty much the whole way by now (although it has no graphical interface like blogger), generating new html and php templates according to one’s fancy, potentially for every page or post. IMHO, something like it could easily be the main interface for WP…

But maybe Mr. Bennett is right; maybe it is better for the evolution of WP if designers create many versions of what that interface looks like. WP will then slowly become a database engine; I can see when virtually no one uses the WP post and page entry screen at all.

Update: My meta descriptions are now pulling from my meta-descriptions and meta keywords are pulling tags.

I uninstalled all plug-ins, deleted the crap in the options table left over by messy plug-ins, and reinstalled everything. I have no idea if that is what did the trick.