Okay, site is up, plugins are working, feeds are a go, and the site is clocked at faster than it’s ever been.

I have to admit, there was an easy way and a hard way to transfer this site over to a new server. I tried the easy way first, it didn’t work. I tried the hard way next, and hours of work later had the same problem. Plugin conflict, I shit you not, the easy way would have worked after all.

The Dashboard is much more responsive, the page header now says ‘Thrice∙berg’ breaking it up for proper pronunciation, and I updated the ‘About’ page to be much more…uh…much more something. All appears to be right as rain for the moment.

I’ll catch you folks on the other side,

Lark

So in a recent post I said how much easier it would be, given my crappy internet connection, if I could edit WordPress posts without going back and forth between proofreading the post as it is on the page (something I insist on doing–I always find more mistakes that way), and the editing the text in the Dashboard. Just this instant a better method occurred to me that I can follow right now. I simply keep the Edit page open in one tab, and the post open in another. No loading and re-loading, I just switch tabs to edit the text as needed.

Works for me,

Lark

Wow, I sure am talking about Google a lot lately. I guess everyone is. Anyway, I’ve been reading a little more about Google Wave, and something just occurred to me. Wave is designed so you can embed it into your website, making your comment section itself a Wave.

That considered, what if Google gave you the option to slap your own domain on a wave, add robust theme support, and made a Wave publicly available to read (with one or more admins who could edit)? Then you’d have a pretty cool blogging engine. I’m on WordPress right now, and I like it a lot. However, my internet connection at home is SLOW. Navigating the Dashboard just to post is fine, but after typing a post I go through a process of proofreading it (2nd time), editing it again, publishing it again, proofreading it AGAIN, and then if there are no problems I’m done. Hitting Edit and waiting for the Dashboard to load, then waiting for the post to re-load can get pretty time consuming. This added to the amount I spend anyway obsessing over any particular post means blogging can eat up a lot of my time. How much cooler would it be to be able to change the text on the same page I’m viewing it on? Meaning, this actual text you’re reading right now. If I’ve just posted, then my site knows who I am, why should I have to keep returning to the Dashboard to edit?

Well, one reason would be, what if I leave my site open and I accidentally hit some keys, editing the post? There’s a lot of different ways that could happen. What if, instead, the edit button on my site activates ‘edit mode,’ but doesn’t take me to the Dashboard? Instead, I edit it there, as it appears, and save it, closing the mode. Ideally WordPress should also save revisions in case something does accidentally happen. When an admin is previewing his or her site, the post could have two options side-by-side: Edit (on screen), or EiD (edit in Dashboard). Sound good to me.

Too bad I don’t have the time, money or skills to make this happen.

Lark

Ajaxed WordPress, come on down!

Do you, the audience, like how my “Click to continue reading” link, and my comments section, folds out of the post, instead of loading as it’s own page? I love it. It lets you check out comments or finish the post without diverting you from catching up with other posts you may want to read next. No more opening multiple tabs for one site, as I have to do with many other blogs. That’s all thanks to Ajaxed WordPress.

Now I feel crappy, posting how great it is, knowing I’ve never given the people who’ve worked on it a cent in return. It’s on my list of things to do once I get paid next, which could be be weeks (sad but true).

In the meantime, thank you, creators of Ajaxed WordPress, your plugin is amazing. Why, just today I set up an additional plugin allowing users to subscribe to comments. Did I have to dig through code to get it to show up on AWP’s special comment form? No! I didn’t have to do anything but activate the plugin. I don’t know how it works, but I know I like it.

Lark

I’ve got it. I did get it, 4 days ago. It’s tag system is different. I thought I was tagging all my recent posts. I wasn’t (Apparently am supposed to click Add, not just fill in the form and hit Publish). I had to re-do 12 posts. 12 posts in 4 days, that’s got to be a record for me. Hope I keep it up.

Lark

PS – I know I’ve just revealed which version of WordPress I use, which is a security hole. But maybe I’ve reverted to an earlier version because I like the old tagging system. Did I? Did I? Hmm?

PPS – Just messed it up again, and had to go back and properly tag this post.