Since I sort of hit a minor set back, of not having my UBCD USB key. I postponed XP install on the EEE and decided to tinker with WordPress this evening. I have now tweaked the theme a little to at least get the colours I want. So the next thing on my list was pages. However I quickly discovered putting arbitary PHP, JS and CSS doesn’t work to well. After a bit of googling I quickly discovered that there are plugins to address these problems. So after about 20 minutes of tinkering that was all working. However the styles and block of HTML that WP applies is sort of interfering with my HTML. Take a look at the Music page and you will quickly see what I mean. MT has the mechanism of publishing pages as static files or bind a page to a static file, I haven’t found the equivalent in WP yet.
Other than that with about 3 hours work the site is now fully functional under WP. The next things on the list are the sidebar, I want a flickr feed, facebook, linkedin and twitter profile links, not difficult at all plugins do exist but I will probably have a go at writing my own sidebar plugins. I also need to make it look a little better, the current styling was rushed just to get the theme working like I wanted. Comments are currently off, but once I get the WordPress API key I will re-enable them.
I will plumb in the AdSense under the first post as well since I can. Also just realised that when I did the upgrade to MT4 I wiped out the Google Analytics JS code resulting in no stats for the last couple of months, no biggie really. Not like I get more than a few people reading the blog anyway, fortunately I do have the server logs so I will try to do something to them so I can register the data into Google Analytics, if such a facility exists that is.
Well at least comments are working properly! Still got lots of little things to do and tidy up, just realised how odd the large left margin is gonna go see if I can reduce that in the stylesheet.
Comments! Hurrah!
Had to register though. boo!
Only for your first comment, it should now allow you to post without moderation.
Well there’s an option to force moderation on the first post that a particular person makes, but here you’ve got it set so you have to *register*. Kind of a pain, but maybe that’s how you want it…
but the other thing is, there is no ‘register’ link. Except hidden away on the login screen. Maybe you need the ‘meta’ widget on your sidebar.
Then you’ll see the comments flooding in. like on my blog…. not
Ok, I have switched off registration. Lets see what happens, planning on doing loads of things to the site over the weekend. Lets see how much of a distraction WoW will be.