After months of delays and frustration, I’ve finally made the long-awaited server switch (courtesy of WestHost) and am set up on WordPress.
It’s going to be a bumpy ride, however. Lots and lots of things aren’t working yet. Perhaps most importantly to my regular readers, the HaloScan comments have not yet been imported into my WordPress database, so the conversations y’all were having yesterday aren’t reflected on the new site. You can leave new comments and start new conversations, but it will be a bit tricky to continue old conversations. I’m very sorry for that inconvenience, but unfortunately, there’s only so much I can do at once. Old comments are still visible on the old site, http://66.237.232.84/, and they will make their way over here eventually.
Other known issues: the RSS feeds aren’t working yet; the categories are so out-of-date that they’re virtually meaningless at this point; the formatting is funky in places; the archives aren’t yet ready for prime-time. I could go on.
However, there are two HUGE advantages to this WordPress setup that are immediately in effect:
* The blog is now paginated, so if something scrolls off the homepage, you can now simply go to Page 2, Page 3, etc., to find it, instead of digging into the impenetrable archive setup I had on the old server.
* At long last, the “Extended Entry” feature is back, so I can write a long post without having the whole thing appear on the homepage. (Scroll down and you’ll see that I’ve done this with a couple of recent basketball posts.) This makes it much easier and quicker for y’all to scroll down for the latest posts. I absolutely had to have this feature working before my NCAA Pools start (otherwise the homepage would be completely taken over with long lists of pool contestants as I update the standings), and this is the primary reason why I’ve made the switch now, even though lots of other stuff isn’t ready yet.
This is very much a work-in-progress. I’ll be adding features, fixing problems, and tweaking the layout and such, over the coming days and weeks. So please bear with me. If you notice that something is broken, let me know. If you have a suggestion, let me know. I’m all ears.
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March 9th, 2006 at 6:40:39 am
testing
March 9th, 2006 at 6:40:54 am
test 2
March 9th, 2006 at 9:40:42 am
Also testing.
March 9th, 2006 at 11:31:26 am
Hmm, altough I find a move away from halo scan to be a positive thing, it should be noted that on internet explorer atleast comment windows are at the moment unresizable. This is a very bad thing for long comment threads.
March 9th, 2006 at 12:37:00 pm
Hmm… odd… it’s resizable on Safari. On the bright side, you can view all comments on the permalink page…
March 9th, 2006 at 12:53:42 pm
resizeable on Firefox for windows, but not in IE7 for windows. Might be for IE6, don’t know.
March 9th, 2006 at 12:54:08 pm
also did you know that URI’s aren’t showing up?
March 9th, 2006 at 1:02:57 pm
URI’s aren’t showing up — huh? me = confused
March 9th, 2006 at 1:56:45 pm
well they apparently are now, they weren’t before, i.e. if you put in a URI for your website the name didn’t reflect that
March 9th, 2006 at 1:57:52 pm
Ok, it works in the permalink, but in the comment pop up window they don’t.
March 9th, 2006 at 2:02:29 pm
Oh… I understand what you are saying now. OK. Well, Dane is threatening to play around with the comment template thingy so maybe he can figure it out. :)
March 9th, 2006 at 2:42:54 pm
yes, but he thinks that pop up windows for comments are the sign of the beast.
March 9th, 2006 at 3:03:45 pm
Hmm, perhaps we should have a vote on whether to keep the pop-up window…
March 9th, 2006 at 3:56:32 pm
if they show up in the permalink posts I see no reason, perhaps the link could just go to an anchor for the comments part of the post in the same window?
March 9th, 2006 at 4:08:12 pm
I agree with David.
March 9th, 2006 at 4:32:27 pm
I admit that I like having a popup window for the comments, but the inability to resize it is annoying.
March 9th, 2006 at 6:27:01 pm
I like the pop-up window, personally. I really hate not being able to resize it, though. (IE6, Windows XP)
No “preview comment” button? That’s always helpful…
March 9th, 2006 at 7:02:43 pm
So is the lack of resizing only an IE thing then?
March 9th, 2006 at 7:29:32 pm
Particularly entertaining is that the thingie that signals that one can re-size the pop-up window is indeed visible in the lower left corner …
And one can indeed re-size the pop-up window, even in IE … but only to the same size !
Fiendish clever, these blog comment folk !
March 9th, 2006 at 8:09:31 pm
Resizing works in Camino too.
is indeed visible in the lower left corner
I always knew Alasdair was backwards, this just proves it…
March 9th, 2006 at 9:44:58 pm
I’m at home, using Firefox 1.0.7 on Windows XP, & I can’t resize here either…
March 9th, 2006 at 11:18:06 pm
Odd I was able to resize using Firefox earlier at work on XP.
March 10th, 2006 at 10:50:12 am
All on OS 10.4.5:
I can resize in Safari 2.0.3
Can’t in Firefox 1.5.0.1
Can’t in IE 5.2
I like pop-up windows and don’t care about resixing when the font is smaller than it is here (but won’t bitch about changes). The only time I really care about resizing is when I click on a link anyway, since in Firefox I have it set to force opening in another tab and scrolling becomes a pain in the ass without resizing. =o)
BTW, congrats on getting things onto the new server. It feels like one of those “awww….our lil Brendan is growing up!” kind of moments.