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Dropped categories

Bruce van der Kooij — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:32:39 +0000

I’ve gone ahead and dropped all categories in favor of just using tags, which makes more sense to me.

TinyMCE editor capturing the key

Bruce van der Kooij — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 20:43:15 +0000

I’m just sharing the rage here.

Now that I’ve picked up blogging again I’ve once again become annoyed with how this TinyMCE editor captures the key thereby overriding Firefox’s tab navigation. What makes it even weirder is that it doesn’t even indent anything when using .

I’ll let this post serve a dual purpose by also acting as a reminder for myself to rip this stuff out of the relevant event handler once I get around to it.

Customized the styling for WP-Syntax

Bruce van der Kooij — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:57:39 +0000

I wanted to post a diff earlier today so I started by looking for a WordPress plugin that would integrate a syntax highlighter, I quickly found in the form of WP-Syntax which utilizes GeSHi (a server side syntax highlighter). However, turns out the default Hybrid theme applies an ugly background image to any pre tags.

I didn’t stop to try and figure out what The One True Way (TM) was so I just edited the relevant CSS files directly. The files I changed were wp-content/themes/hybrid/library/css/screen.css (to remove background) and wp-content/plugins/wp-syntax/wp-syntax.css (to change the wrapping to pre-wrap).

For a lot of WP-Syntax examples take a look at the Emacs Blog.

TODO:

Turns out the correct way to modify wp-syntax.css was described in the notes section of the WP-Syntax plugin page:

To customize your styling, copy the default wp-content/plugins/wp-syntax/wp-syntax.css to your theme’s template directory and modify it. If a file named wp-syntax.css exists in your theme’s template directory, this stylesheet is used instead of the default.

Seems the border is a bit buggy.

The little things

Bruce van der Kooij — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:03:24 +0000

It’s pretty nifty how in summary view WordPress will (sometimes?) take the first image encountered and use it as a thumbnail and even automatically crops it.

TODO:

I have a post where I had added an image and later removed it, WordPress still uses this image as a thumbnail (click on one of the associated tags to view the result). Looks like a bug to me, so here’s a reminder to myself to report a bug.

Drupal, oh how I miss thee

Bruce van der Kooij — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:46:56 +0000

I wish WordPress had a URL alias system like Drupal does. Now with WordPress it seems you can’t update the post title or change the permalink scheme without breaking all previous links

Why did I actually choose WordPress over Drupal? It may have had something to do with that word that starts with a u and ends with sability (which reminds me of the Drupal 7 User Experience Project, whose site oddly enough doesn’t properly handle that I force a particular font). How would the ideal blogging engine look like front-end and usability wise anyways because WordPress in my experiences so far is still far from ideal?

UPDATE: a quick Google search for “drupal change permalink without breaking” (without the quotes) turns up this blog post which lists 3 plugins that can help with the permalink issues. I’ll take a look at these later.

UPDATE: Tyler searched his logs and gave me this link. Include this in my research when I look at the issue later.

TODO:

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WordPress hybrid edit mode

Bruce van der Kooij — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:25:10 +0000

I wish WordPress would support some hybrid mode which would allow you to directly use HTML in visual mode. I think Atlassian’s Confluence actually supports this kind of thing.