wordpress blog, reposted from comments
Aug. 4th, 2007 06:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sub_dividedNot actually spurred on by the latest round of LJ deletions, I have a wordpress:
http://sd.magatsu.net/blog
Hosted by the wondrous![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
telophase. This a mirror of my livejournal since January 2006, but with all the fanfic, lj shout-out, and pointless meme parts taken out. I'd been thinking about -- not leaving livejournal, but moving some of the content on my livejournal to my own domain -- for a while, mostly so that the next time someone asked me what I do with my spare time, I could honestly answer that I kept "blog". I finally decided to go for it after I had this conversation with my academic advisor:
Him: Any hobbies?
Me: I...write? (fanfiction.) And I keep a...blog? (livejournal.)
Him: What's the blog about?
Me: Um. Books, movies,manga comics, anime television shows, whatever I'm into.
Him: Sounds interesting. Is it any good?
Me: ...
Him: ...
Me: ...
Him: ...Have you gotten positive comments?
Me: Yes.
Him: Well, there you go! People are cruel on the internet, if they didn't like what you were writing, they would definitely have told you.
SO YOU SEE. XD I wanted to know whether what I was writing would stand up to the untested wilds of the internet, and then there was the whole LJ-deletion thing, and basically the time seemed right. I've had the blog for about a month and a half, but I've been holding off making any announcements until I'd decided what to do with future content -- crosspost to both journals? Split content between journals? I think for now I'll just copy what I post in my livejournal to the wordpress blog, edited, a few days later. Baby steps, you know. ^^;;;
...Oh right, the other reason I was putting this off writing this post was because I wanted to explain the steps I went through to set up/customize the wordpress. Okay. First, I used this guide:
http://smuffster.livejournal.com/357659.html
It doesn't really explain the setting up part (though it links to another guide that does -- scroll to the bottom of the post), but it does explain the customizations that make wordpress work more like livejournal. From that post, I installed these plug-ins:
Akismet
Auto-hyperlink URLs
Brian's Threaded Comments
Comment Email Responder
Extended Comment Options
OpenID Registration
Sociable
WP-Polls
WP-Polls Widget
WP AJAX Edit Comments
Plus the hack she mentions for lj-cut and lj-user tags.
I also love categories, um, A LOT, so I installed these to help manage:
WP-Cats
Easily categorize recent posts. Only drawback is that tags must have already been used on at least one public entry before they will appear on the pop-up menu.
Batch Categories
Filter entries by tag or keywords and categorize en mass. My life would have been so easy with this, if only I didn't average eight different tags per post. XD;;
Collapsible, Foldable, Expandable Category Menus.
My baby. XD I'm so proud, I managed this despite near-total php illiteracy (and I had to write my own widget, and add my own ul class to the stylesheet, and everything). Check out the subcategories!!
Two extremely simple things everyone forgets to mention:
1. TURN OFF THE VISUAL TEXT EDITOR
Users-->Your Profile. Uncheck the box that says "use visual text editor when editing" under "personal options". While this was on, every time I tried to edit an entry -- even just to recategorize it -- wordpress would helpfully rewrite all my italic tags to em tags and bold tags to strong tags, as well as various other nefarious things, like closing all those nasty open lj-cut tags.
2. TURN OFF AUTO-CORRECT XHTML
Options-->Writing. Uncheck the box that says "WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically" under "formatting". I'm not sure what kind of havoc this could wreck, actually, since I unchecked it right away, but as far as I'm concerned anything with "autoformat" in it is bad news.
***
IN CONCLUSION, if you are keeping a blog somewhere else, please leave a comment so I can link you. Or even if you're seat-warming an empty account on another journal -- leave a comment so I can add you to google reader, and I'll know where to find you...if.
http://sd.magatsu.net/blog
Hosted by the wondrous
telophase. This a mirror of my livejournal since January 2006, but with all the fanfic, lj shout-out, and pointless meme parts taken out. I'd been thinking about -- not leaving livejournal, but moving some of the content on my livejournal to my own domain -- for a while, mostly so that the next time someone asked me what I do with my spare time, I could honestly answer that I kept "blog". I finally decided to go for it after I had this conversation with my academic advisor:Him: Any hobbies?
Me: I...write? (fanfiction.) And I keep a...blog? (livejournal.)
Him: What's the blog about?
Me: Um. Books, movies,
Him: Sounds interesting. Is it any good?
Me: ...
Him: ...
Me: ...
Him: ...Have you gotten positive comments?
Me: Yes.
Him: Well, there you go! People are cruel on the internet, if they didn't like what you were writing, they would definitely have told you.
SO YOU SEE. XD I wanted to know whether what I was writing would stand up to the untested wilds of the internet, and then there was the whole LJ-deletion thing, and basically the time seemed right. I've had the blog for about a month and a half, but I've been holding off making any announcements until I'd decided what to do with future content -- crosspost to both journals? Split content between journals? I think for now I'll just copy what I post in my livejournal to the wordpress blog, edited, a few days later. Baby steps, you know. ^^;;;
...Oh right, the other reason I was putting this off writing this post was because I wanted to explain the steps I went through to set up/customize the wordpress. Okay. First, I used this guide:
http://smuffster.livejournal.com/357659.html
It doesn't really explain the setting up part (though it links to another guide that does -- scroll to the bottom of the post), but it does explain the customizations that make wordpress work more like livejournal. From that post, I installed these plug-ins:
Akismet
Auto-hyperlink URLs
Brian's Threaded Comments
Comment Email Responder
Extended Comment Options
OpenID Registration
Sociable
WP-Polls
WP-Polls Widget
WP AJAX Edit Comments
Plus the hack she mentions for lj-cut and lj-user tags.
I also love categories, um, A LOT, so I installed these to help manage:
WP-Cats
Easily categorize recent posts. Only drawback is that tags must have already been used on at least one public entry before they will appear on the pop-up menu.
Batch Categories
Filter entries by tag or keywords and categorize en mass. My life would have been so easy with this, if only I didn't average eight different tags per post. XD;;
Collapsible, Foldable, Expandable Category Menus.
My baby. XD I'm so proud, I managed this despite near-total php illiteracy (and I had to write my own widget, and add my own ul class to the stylesheet, and everything). Check out the subcategories!!
Two extremely simple things everyone forgets to mention:
1. TURN OFF THE VISUAL TEXT EDITOR
Users-->Your Profile. Uncheck the box that says "use visual text editor when editing" under "personal options". While this was on, every time I tried to edit an entry -- even just to recategorize it -- wordpress would helpfully rewrite all my italic tags to em tags and bold tags to strong tags, as well as various other nefarious things, like closing all those nasty open lj-cut tags.
2. TURN OFF AUTO-CORRECT XHTML
Options-->Writing. Uncheck the box that says "WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically" under "formatting". I'm not sure what kind of havoc this could wreck, actually, since I unchecked it right away, but as far as I'm concerned anything with "autoformat" in it is bad news.
***
IN CONCLUSION, if you are keeping a blog somewhere else, please leave a comment so I can link you. Or even if you're seat-warming an empty account on another journal -- leave a comment so I can add you to google reader, and I'll know where to find you...if.