Miscellaneous

WordPress Development Progress – Movies, Agent X artwork added

Posted September 18, 2007

Got through adding in movies G-L, and I also added in the 20+ posts yesterday for my Agent X artwork development section. I forget how many posts are still left in the Arcade stuff. But at least I am close to half way with the movie posts, that is a huge section.

Got a small feeling of accomplishment

Posted September 16, 2007

This week has been so crazy between meetings, follow ups, the laptop breaking, and whatever else that I haven’t been able to stick to the whole, “Transfer one section of Rotheblog posts per night”. So, I finished up three sections I had started and were in progress, the Movies sections A-F.

I want this finished by October, and need to have it to move onto my studying. I have a lot of work left, but hopefully this week will be better for updates.

WP-Sticky Plugin for WordPress

Posted September 5, 2007

This was the problem I was having. I couldn’t figure out how to keep certain posts at the top of a section of posts in a category. There were some categories that I had what I would consider an “introduction” that I wanted to always be on top. This kind of breaks the format of a blog, but this is how I like things.

I did some searching on category related plugins, but the wp-sticky plugin is really what I was looking for.

When you go to write a new post, on the right column of options, you will see a new section called “Post Sticky Status”. There are three options;

Announcement
Sticky
Normal

This is what each of these options mean.

“Normal” post is just what you write every day, it falls into the chronological order of your posts for that category.
“Sticky” post is a post that will be on the top of your group of posts for that day, breaking the chronological order but not permanently. When you post tomorrow, that sticky post will be bumped down the page.
“Announcement” post will permanently stay at the top of the page.

An announcement post is what I was looking for, something to break the chronological order and always be on top. But I like the option to sticky a post as well, to order a set of posts by day.

Great plugin for this need, easy to use. If you are looking for a WordPress plugin to change the order of your posts and always keep a post on top of a page, WP-Sticky is your plugin.

~Edit

After I wrote this post, I noticed that the “Announcement” option was also taking over the heirarchy of my posts on my homepage, not category specific. There is an option to set it to only categories though, here is what you do;

Options > Sticky

“Categories Only” = Yes

By default, “Categories Only” is set to “No”. Just set it to “Yes”, and you should be able to control the hierarchy only within categories.

Christine posts finished

Posted August 31, 2007

I got all of the rest of the articles Christine wrote transferred over, as well as a couple of the arcade sections like R-Type and Pengo and the whole A Movies section. I haven’t looked at what the movies are going to take just yet…I don’t understand why WordPress doesn’t allow <div> tags, but I need to figure it out for this section for sure.

“The Mulling It Over” page links are all linked up, and then I remembered that there were sketches there too, four pages of those. I will try to finish those this weekend. And I may do more arcade post transfers and procrastinate on figuring out the “div” thing in WordPress.

Progress on the WordPress Transfer

Posted August 29, 2007

This weekend I finally finished the huge CSS Design section transfer, and also added in the Entertainment sections and have started piecing in the writeups in the comics section that Christine did over two years ago.

I am kind of delaying from working on the movies section, just because I know how huge it is, and how I want the graphics to transfer without issue. I have a feeling that will be difficult.

This weekend I won’t have much time to work on it at all, I might be able to finish the Christine section if I am lucky.

Single and Double Quotes – Copy and Paste from Dreamweaver to WordPress

Posted August 19, 2007

Last week when I was having the major issues with bad characters that was causing my server to overload, I guessed that it was because of corrupted characters.

But I know after tonight, it has to do with single and double quotes that I copied and pasted out of Dreamweaver.

The quotes aren’t the same in “Design” view as they are when you paste them into a “Write Post” textarea in WordPress. Now, you might be able to copy the HTML encoding for quotes, but this is not what I was doing.

So, want to max, overload, and crash your server with WordPress? Copy and paste out of Dreamweaver into WordPress. Even set on “Linux” characters translation, it doesn’t matter.

With so much copy and pasting, I will just have to watch it. But it truly is a smart idea to post into Notepad, or PSPad first out of any software, even one as robust and one you wouldn’t think would create bad characters like Dreamweaver.

Simpsonize Me – Jeff Rothe

Posted August 16, 2007

Like I said, I haven’t updated my blog much, and it has been less than I thought as I work harder on the WordPress version. But I thought this was so awesome that I had to post it here.

I have started to see these around, and the commercials didn’t make me realize this was something you could do.