Comments on: Weaning yourself off LJ: Plugin-o-rama!

By: Infotropism – Weaning yourself off LJ: Images and video

Infotropism – Weaning yourself off LJ: Images and video — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:10:53 +0000

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By: E. M. Pink

E. M. Pink — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:20:22 +0000

S: Thanks for the info. I like knowing what I’m getting myself into with a theme…preferably before I spend hours cursing at it. That’s one of the reasons why I decided to scrap themed themes entirely and just build my own on top of the Sandbox theme (by Scott Alan Wallick and Andy Skelton), so I could have everything the way I want it. And even if I give up on trying to build my own theme, I’ll definitely go with a widget-ready one — added tweaking on top of everything else sucks.

*sighs* It IS beautiful, though.

By: Skud

Skud — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:11:46 +0000

E: It’s not very customisable, I’m afraid. The sidebar isn’t widget-enabled so I had to set that up myself, and then it looked kinda funny across the top so I widened the Flickr bar by fiddling the CSS. The footer information needs a certain amount of customisation by hand, and in quite a few places the theme assumes you’re in the root directory of your domain, so I had to change URLs by hand because mine’s in a /blog/ subdirectory. Basically, it’s as he says on his site — it works for him, but you need to fiddle a bit to make it work for you.

By: E. M. Pink

E. M. Pink — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:56:31 +0000

Skud — Perhaps. I’ll try it out, I think; so far I’ve been weathering the rather blocky results of another tag plugin. It would be really nice to have one with a smoother implementation.

PS: I liked this theme when I saw it on Powazek’s site. I think I like it even more now :). Just how customizable is it? I checked out your front page — did you do that on your own, or was it part of the theme?

By: Skud

Skud — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:12:00 +0000

E. M. Pink — UTW seems to be working fine for me here in WordPress 2.2, but I only installed it recently. Perhaps older versions of UTW don’t weather the upgrade gracefully?

By: E. M. Pink

E. M. Pink — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:54:30 +0000

Just wanted to say that you did a great job on this series, as well as ask if you know whether Ultimate Tag Warrior is compatible with the most recent release of Wordpress. I heard some caveats about that elsewhere, and thought I might as well ask, since it seems to be working for you.

Thanks!

By: Quandary

Quandary — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:33:01 +0000

In Series actually does support arbitrary post reordering since at least version 3.0.2. Back up your database and try an upgrade! :)

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Travis (the maintainer-dude for In Series)

By: MatGB

MatGB — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:41:36 +0000

FEw comments, firstly, very nice set of articles; very little I didn’t know but lots of stuff I’ve not written up yet as I planned, so thanks for saving me the effort; I’ll be back (I’ve been planning to self host my journal for ages and use a cross poster but beyond setting up my frontpage and theming it, never got any further)

Second, for FTP, FireFTP is a Firrefox plugin that’s good enough for basic use, I find it useful for quick stuff (although I have a paid copy of Terrapin when I’m working).

For Aksimet; mine on the politics blog has caught stuff it shouldn’t have; annoyingly this included comments from me when I was logged in as an admin, very annoying. Also, can’t praise the Bad Behaviour plugin enough; one week I got hit by 3000 spam attempts, Akismet caught more than half but that was still a hell of a lot of work. Installed bad behaviour, and it cut it down to almost nothing. It can, sometimes, block legit users (again, including me), but rather give an eror message with clear instructions/reasons why than deal with that much crud.

Also, I followed a link here from the LJ2wordpress community; our lives sort of got in the way of the project, but I think we’ll have stuff you may not have come across yet, worth a look around. Especially useful is OpenID stuff, LJers can log in to comment and even get given posting rights without needing an actual account with you, very useful.

Good stuff though. Welcome to the exiles ;-)

By: Kath

Kath — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:58:22 +0000

There are also ftp plugins for firefox. Filezilla is awesome as well.

By: Siderea

Siderea — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:26:38 +0000

The FTP app of choice on the Mac is Fetch.