Category Archives: The Never-Ending Bloga

We All Tumblog Down

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Finally… finally. It’s working, now that I’ve finally figured out where the tags go. I did have to replace WP’s the_title tag with Woo Tumblog’s tag, but I didn’t fully replace the entire line and permalink.

Will need to figure out how to style the Links, Quotes, Video etc. tumblog archive links with a background image for each. Currently, if a post is a “link” post, the title link is replaced by the tumblog link, with a text link above to the “link” archive (or quotes, or whatever). I’d rather that word was replaced by the icon, but will have to figure it out later.

The icons I’d like to use are:

link… Article…quote…audio…image…Video

for Link, Article, Quote, Audio, Image, and Video respectively.

In the meantime, I’ve got Press This Reloaded, a plugin that extends the standard Press This bookmarklet, tweaked a bit for my desktop and tweaked slightly differently for the iPhone. There’s still some kind of problem with getting Press This to work well on the iPhone, but I’ve got something cobbled together. What’s more, the tumblog functions are accessible from the same window. So look for more actual short-form blogging during the day now that I have a way to grab links easily again, but not so much incessant sharing.

And now I must get to sleep, before I tumblog down in a stupor. Sorry for the boringness, tra la la!

Woo Link Still Not Working?

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UPDATE:

Actually, it’s sort of working, because I decided put the woo_tumblog_the_title in the template after all, just not entirely replacing my title tag. And then I added the woo_tumblog_link_content just above the woo_tumblog_content tag I’d previously added.

So hey, if you click the title link, it’ll lead you to the WooThemes page. Now I just need to figure out adding a graphic to it to highlight the fact that it’s not a normal title link.

Unfortunately for WooTumblog, I did get the Press This Reloaded bookmarklet working on the iPhone somehow… it turns out that whatever page I’m on can’t have extra added cruft in the URL, such as that added by Google Reader. And even then some pages (in the iPhone only) just won’t work because some script is messing things up, but it’s pretty reliable so long as I copy some text to quote, which seems to invoke the plug-in and get the URL turned into a link.

Oy. At least it leads to more quick blogging. Which is a good thing, right? Right?

WooThemes Tumbling Along With The Tumbling Tumble Apps

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Jeff has been quietly and stealthily been working on a free plugin that brings the functionality behind our popular tumblog themes to plugin format. That means you can turn your custom WP theme, or whatever theme you use, into a WordPress tumblog – easily posting images, notes, links and quotes to your site from your WordPress dashboard, or by using our iPhone app.

via Tumbling along | WooThemes

Ironically, I used ScribeFire to grab this link and quote the highlighted text, with one click. It’s really more for the iPhone functionality that I’m fooling with this. It’s all working for me except for individual links… I’ll revisit later to see if there’s any answer.

Moar Boaring Testing

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More testing of the WooTumblog plugin, this time with the Twenty-Ten theme enabled. I’m not sure I want to use the Tumbler-like styling… just want to see if links and quotes work.

UPDATE: Not working. I guess I need to figure out what the “simple tags” are that I need to add to my theme. Dammit.

UPDATE II: Working! Did add the woo_tumblog content tags ONLY above the excerpt and content tags in my current theme. I first tinkered with the free Twenty-Ten theme, since there were instructions specific to that theme… but Amazing Grace was easier to edit once I installed a line-numbering syntax editor plugin (DON’T ASK, it just works) to help me figure out what line I needed to edit in TT. Then I switched back to Amazing Grace and figured out where the woo_template PHP tag needed to go. I could probably use the title tag too, but switch off the Tumblog archive icon, but don’t need to.

Matrix Kitties RAWR

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I has a FEERCE on the Internets Toobz!

I’m testing a new plugin for self-hosted WordPress blogs called “WooTumblog” that should function with my iPhone once I install the app from the iTunes store. Since the app costs $4.99, I’m testing the desktop version of the plugin. David has created a child theme of my current Amazing Grace theme and backed it up… here goes.

UPDATE: Note, the image upload did not display, I had to add it – although it WAS shown as a gallery image for the post, so I didn’t have to re-upload it.

WooTumblog Tinkering

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Testing an image URL now…. thinking I may be able to wrap images with the DIV classes to give borders/drop shadows…

UPDATE: Also didn’t work; had to add image URL so I went ahead and added the link to the origin page and the drop shadow DIVs. David will have to take a look at what’s going on with images.

UPDATE: Working, but need to figure out how to apply at least minimal CSS with border and white margin to images.

Is Too Much, I Will Sum Up

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I’m still alive, and hoping to break free of my Google Reader addiction in order to fall back into the more creative addictive habit of actually blogging something about what’s going on in my life or in my head.

Today is Caturday. There, I’ve blogged something. And I’ve been wrasslin with WordPress, updating all three of my sites/blogs. Er, well, I have a fourth blog but it’s quite inactive at the moment, it’s Riley the Cat’s blog.

I’ll get around to that later – he’s much too lazy to do his own blogging and I’m too lazy to do my own, let alone channel my cat’s much more interesting thoughts.

Anyway, this blog is now updated and I’ve been through the wringer trying to follow the instructions for getting one of my handy plugins updated – Twitter Tools now has to go through an API-like authentication process and the instructions were a little opaque as to what to fill in. Also, one major pitfall: if you have multiple blogs and multiple Twitter personae as I do, you really do need to log out of the Twitter developer’s app and re-log as the next account, or you end up with everything under one account.

Also, you have to fill in a bunch of fields with various consumer keys and sekrit tokens and what-nottery and it’s all too easy to paste into the wrong field, under the wrong account. Plus, you reach a point where you have to put in an even more sekrit access token and the instructions don’t point you in the obvious direction of clicking the “My Access Token” link once you succeed in filling in the fields in the first screen. Also, on the first screen, you have to name your “application” something that Twitter will find acceptable, like “[Blogname’s] Tools” but not “[Blogname’s] Twitter Tools” because the word “twitter” can’t be used. It took at least 3 tries to get past the initial registration page, which got me the consumer keys, but the tokens were under the link in the right-hand column.

The other point of this boring saga is just to see if this post shows up under the right Twitter account, GAH.

PS we had a great weekend last week downtown taking the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s boat tour, but my camera wasn’t working and it’s already been sent for repair or possibly will end up buying a new camera body, BAH.

PPS I also went for another mani-pedi indulgence day at Spa Martinique. This is a most untomboy-like thing for me to do.