Posts Tagged ‘Site’

Fiction Friday: Inheritance

General | Posted by Derek
Nov 19 2009

Inheritance. Enjoy. It’s new. You’ve never seen it before. I swear.

I’ve been making tweaks to the CSS and sidebar tonight. Individual chapters now don’t show any of the ‘login’ and other meta crap; it’s down to just the chapter flipping widget that I’d been sticking directly at the top and bottom of the chapter text. I had to get rid of the navigation at the top of the text, because adding drop caps to each page was not playing nice with it there.

I’ve also added paragraph indenting, because trying to read without it seems to wig my eyes out a little. I’m still working on implementing text-only copies, just have to beat the plugin into submission with only a few minutes a night to tinker.

As an aside, I seem to start most of my front page posts with the letter ‘I.’ Hm.

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Text-only coming shortly

Uncategorized | Posted by Derek
Nov 09 2009

I’ve found a plugin now that’ll spit out any post in plaintext, but I need to tweak it to convert back the only markup I still use (> and < since I can’t directly paste in a post with angle brackets denoting another language is in use), as well as add links somewhere in the template.

It also needs to add a little more data to the beginning of the text: Chapter title, preferably the dates during which it takes place… I’d just use WP’s “page_order” but I’m grossly abusing that and I’m expecting my little hack with that to break the next time wordpress updates the database, anyway. It’ll change the field from my preferred bigint(20) back to whatever it was at (10 or 11).

Which means I’ll have to go update all the chapters back into their correct order. Bleh. I’m forcing the pages to sort using the entire date as such: 271506010000 This allows for two two take place on the same day, at different times of day, and still be ordered properly if their names aren’t in alphabetical order.

I suppose I could trim off the last pair of 00’s on the sort order, limit it to hours… It’d fit in the int(11) then. Bleh.

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Fiction Friday: Infection

General | Posted by Derek
Oct 23 2009

Infection, formerly known as “Contagion” (part 1), is up on this wonderful foggy Friday morning. Spoiler of the super minor change after the break. But first, a rant. (Which is safe to ignore.)

I’ve been on a domain buying spree as of late. I’ve been annoyed every time I get an extortion email “Want to buy bluevulpine.com for $50? $75? $250?” - had I wanted it, I’d have bought it when I picked up the .net version! The last squatter that contaced me I told off with some language that made a nearby sailor blush, and then ended with “I do sincerely hope that you enjoy sitting on a domain for a year that no one gives a rat’s ass about. Solid investment of your time and money, that.”

Somehow later that day it was out of the whois registry. Not sure how that works, thought they would have been locked into them for a year.

Anyway, I picked up the .com and .us. A buddy uses his .net for the blog, and the .com for (and not to belittle his effort, because I’m seriously considering the same thing up here in the hills) a ‘hobby’ business beside his regular employment. I’ve been helping folks in the area fix their computers since I moved up here. Maybe it’s time to hang out a shingle.

I also went on a browsing spree of the .US domain expiry lists. It’s amazing the absolute amount of spam-only registrations vanishing off the radar every day, having been replaced by something new that the spam filters haven’t adapted to just yet. However, in the mess, I found two novel names that may work for the aforementioned project of reviving/recreating Miavir’s index. How’s “foxytales.us” sound, along with the identically-pronounced “foxytails.us”?

Shrug. It’ll be something to keep me out of trouble.

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Because it’s worth noting

General | Posted by Derek
Oct 17 2009

Having problems with a theme not showing avatars even though you’ve enabled them in the admin panel?

The Screaming Viking had this problem. The theme was using an outdated global variable ($author_email) in the comment loop. Since it didn’t exist, the get_avatar() call couldn’t be bothered to return the proper image code. However, it’s immensely happy if you just pass it a reference to the comment object itself - so changing this:

echo get_avatar($author_email, $size=”40″, $default_avatar );

into this:

echo get_avatar($comment, $size=”40″, $default_avatar );

fixed the avatars in that particular theme. (Zinmag’s Remedy.)

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Happy Columbus Day

General | Posted by Derek
Oct 12 2009

Go discover something!

Personally, I discovered the delayed posting feature in WordPress. Friday’s update will now go up automatically. :D

The flash animation in this theme (the aurora up top is moving) really sucks the life out of my battery. I’m not entirely sure about keeping the theme, especially since I never intended to activate it yet anyway. We’ll see. At the least I suspect I’m changing the font from monospace to a serif variety.

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