I’ve created a to-do list on Ta-Da that catalogs all the technical or desgin improvements I want to do to this blog.
First, I want to get the following plugins working:
- Calendar
- Admin To-Do List
- Theme Switcher
- Widgets
- Google Search Widget
- Language Translation Widget
- AJAX Spell Checker
Then, I want to add the following somehow:
- Add My Flickr Photos to the Sidebar
- Create and add a public blog to-do list (and add all these items to it)
- Finish the About Section of the Blog
- Write some more meaningful posts
The last one is going to be hard but as my new life goal list says, I am working towards writing more. In a bit, I’ll write about all the things I did do lately so you can see what it is that has been taking up my blogging time.
With the July 4th weekend upon us, I’m taking to opportunity to visit some friends and work on the blog. I’ll be adding some new features and plugins that will bring this blog up another notch.
The first thing I’m going to do is clean up my posts. For that, you might want to look at the post count on the top part of the sidebar. Its currently at 100 but I don’t actually have, what I consider, 100 posts. Some are test posts that I meant to delete but never managed to do. I’m going to remove them in anticipation for the real 100th post where I’ll write something more substantial than a diary entry.
After I clean up the posts, I’m going to create categories for them and actually assign them to those categories. I’m all about the meta data as of late and I want my posts to be organized in some way using the tag features of the site.
Then, I’m going to add some more features. I’ve already done a few that I didn’t write about (yet) but will add more and write about them in one fell swoop.
Stay tuned for more So It’s Come To This!
technorati tags:Site, Updates, Cleanup
I’m trying to get back all my “lost” functionality that I had at
Blogger. Post by email is one of them (actually, I think its the last
one too). WordPress 2.0 has the feature but setting up is more
challenging so I guess I can’t call it “lost”.
Blogger has it setup automatically. all you have to do is create the
email address @ blogspot.com and whatever is emailed there, gets
posted.
WordPress is a little different (at least with the hosted services I
have, anyway). You have to generate create an email address with your
host provider, then configure the post by email in the setup of the
blog. When that’s done, you have to setup a cron job to invoke the
command that publishes.
This email is a test of that cron job.
I hope this works.
C.G.
Google Maps has changed a little and I guess I never updated my code. Now, I can’t get my maps to display. I know the code is right but the coordinates are not. Plus, some WP-Cache’ing plugin won’t serve up the latest version of the site for FireFox.
Update: I got it working - had to reverse the coordinates and change the zoom level. It should be good now.
So I’m almost done getting the site to where I want it. I have some code cleanup to do on the sidebar because most of my content I simply cut and paste from my old Blogger.com template. Some of the tags don’t exist in WordPress 2.0 and much of it isn’t XHTML 1.0 compliant which I think I want to achieve.
For you trusty readers, it doesn’t mean much. You should see everything you remember seeing. You might see more as I play around with more plug-ins and add more rich content to the side.
After I get done with all this cosmetic stuff, however, it’s back to deep thought.
Maybe.
