News about my site
Apologies, but it seems my blog is being pretty slow, REALLY slow on some pages. A redesign and recode is in the works though, so rather than trying to figure out what’s hanging and causing the slow page loads, I’m just gonna not worry about it and instead spend the time working on the new version.
Sorry for the inconvience.
If anyone out there besides bots actually use the feeds of this site, they’ve been fixed. They were broken, probably from when I upgraded to one of the WordPress 2.0 betas. Sorry ’bout that.
Yes, that’s right, beta versions of WordPress v2.0 have been released and I must say, it’s majorly kickass. Partially AJAX admin area, tons of new features, etc. WordPress is really shaping up to be an even better blogging software, not that it wasn’t before.
If you want to try it out, you can download via the link in this thread of the WordPress support forums.
I’ll post a screenshot later today hopefully (it’s already 7 AM and I still haven’t gone to bed). Oh, and if you encounter any issues with my site, make sure to leave a comment on this post pointing them out.
Update [6:23 PM]: Here’s the screenshot of WordPress v2.0. Note the draggable boxes on the right side and the AJAX category selection.
![WordPress v2.0 Beta 2 [Thumbnail]](https://i0.wp.com/alex.blog/wp-content/uploads/wp2.jpg)
Update [7:10 PM]: Just realized I screwed up my .htaccess when I was working on it last night. Permalinks / comments should work now for posts. Sorry.
Sorry, seems Gravatar.com was down and my site was trying to update a cached Gravatar and this was causing major page timeouts here. Anyway, caching as been disabled for the time being and all should be better now. 🙂
Just thought I’d share the news (and code) of two new comment features that I’ve added to my blog.
The first is auto-scrolling to your comment after you post it. It works on themes where each comment has an id or link. If you’d like to add it to your blog, check out this thread on the WordPress support forums.
The other new feature is the ability to edit your comments for 30 minutes. Ever posted a comment only to realize that you made a spelling mistake or whatnot? Well now you can fix it.
This feature came out of a thread that I made on the WordPress forums where I was coming up with ideas for the feature. I had originally planned to code it myself (and after looking at the resulting code, I could have), but jalenack got to it before I could. It ended up working out for the best though since he accomplished the feature in a much more elegant way than I would have (he didn’t use any custom forms or anything).
Anyway, you can test out both features in the comments area of this post. Just click the comments link below. 🙂
Yes, that’s right, after just a month of using it, I’m already starting to somewhat grow tired of this theme.
I really wish I had some artisitc skills so that I could make what I consider to be a perfect theme, or at least change this one more to be perfect.
What do you all think of it? What do you think I could do to improve it?
I ripped some code outta the WordPress theme K2 (the sequel to the infamous theme Kubrick that comes bundled with WordPress) that allows you to see your search results as you type.
I’ve modified it a bit and my modifications are still a work in progress, but you can check it out in the search box to the right.
(It may take a second or two to display the results as it has to query each time you type, so be patient.)
Sorry, I had a plugin that was throwing out error messages at the top of all of my pages when you first visited that site and that was screwing up the feeds. Since I’ve made this new post, Feed Burner should refresh it’s cached version of my feed and the error should go away (hopefully).
[edit] Fixed and all better! 🙂 [/edit]
Thanks gig for pointing out the error. 🙂
Got around to adding some new features to my blog! 🙂
My next project will be my About page which will feature a short little bio of me probably as well as some stats about the site such as what WordPress plugins I use.
Stay tuned.
I replaced the header image of my WordPress theme with one of my photos (larger version here) and widened the whole thing. The post contents do look a bit odd though with many of them being on one line, but overall, I think it looks a lot better now, don’t you? 🙂