Wordpress Development
Rotheblog 2.0 (WordPress) Launched!
After over two long months of work, I am putting out my informal “Beta” launch of the revised Rotheblog.com.
I assume that there will be some bugs, and I hope that all of you will tell me about them. Email me at rothecreations at gmail dot com if you find something that doesn’t work, or just visit my contact page to get a hold of me that way.
If something is hard for you to find, drop me a line. I want this to be as easy as possible to navigate with all of the ranges of different content I now have going on here.
I do hope some of you will make comments. I know I had this feature temporarily available before in the Movies section, but that was very specific. Now, you can make a comment anywhere just about, so I really look forward to seeing some of that.
Hope you like it, it was a hard decision when I started, and it was a lot of hard work, but I think it will be well worth it in the end.
~Jeff
WordPress 2.3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1)
WordPress 2.3 is supposed to be released as a final version today. RC1 was released late last Monday for people to do final testing before the published release.
Fortunately my site isn’t really live yet, so testing out the RC1 wouldn’t be a big deal. But I decided to just install a fresh version on a different server and do the testing I needed.
I wanted to make sure some of my plugins worked, specifically Kimili Flash Plugin and WP-Sticky. Both of them worked like a charm. I did some testing to see if they had upgraded any of the HTML editing in TinyMCE, the WYSIWYG editor, but it doesn’t appear so. I think the editor still strips empty tags and “div” tags.
But at the very least, I am really getting into these releases. This is a fairly big one. It adds tag support, which is huge for SEO purposes. It also adds auto checker for plugin updates and release updates for the software.
I will probably end up upgrading later this week.
Finished Movies, onto Galleries
There were a ton of entries, the system counted 231 entries alone for movies. And that is how many movies I have watched in two and a half years. If I think about it too hard, I get really depressed.
Hopefully before the end of next week I can start and finish the galleries section, move onto the holes in the arcade posts, and then finally start customizing the site to how I want it to look.
WordPress Development Progress – Movies, Agent X artwork added
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
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
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
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.
