1

Regarding the hyperlink dialog box, the insert picture dialog box, and to a lesser extent the view edit source dialog box.  My biggest complaint is that it is easier to just type the raw html code than it is to figure out how to use them.......and it's a nuisance to disable my pop-up blocker.

2 I'll be providing the option to use a plain-text editor, and then an option to use alternative editors, but it will take a little time to set that up, so please bear with it for now.

The little <> widget opens an HTML editing window that you can use if that helps.

3 Oh, and there's another alternative: Use BBcode.  Works in both posts and comments, and soon in templates as well.

4 Is FTP available for uploading images and/or files? Is so, how about a primer?

Thanks

5 Not at present.  Setting up FTP accounts for each user and keeping it all in sync with the rest of the system was too involved for the initial release, but we may be adding it later.

6 I see that my "Tagline" under my blog name (and some other beta testers is cutoff - the portion of the letters that extend down). I assume this is a spacing issue in the "templates" but could not cipher just what needed to change. Can you give me a pointer to how to fix it?

Thanks

7 That's actually a CSS problem.  I've been meaning to tweak the standard CSS to try to fix it.  It works just fine... if you have your fonts set up in a certain range of sizes on your browser.  Outside that range, not so good.

8

If I understand the question, you need to edit the default .css file to give the #banner more height, save the file, upload it and then change your template to load the new .css

If that's wrong or I misunderstood, ignore me.

My question/suggestion about the link editor would be adding a line where we can enter the displayed text. As it is now I get something like  [href="http://link.com"]http://link.com and then I have to edit the text. I would like to get [href="http://link.com"]My text from the pop-up editor.

9

If I understand the question, you need to edit the default .css file to give the #banner more height, save the file, upload it and then change your template to load the new .css

Thats correct.

My question/suggestion about the link editor would be adding a line where we can enter the displayed text.

I can look at doing that.  The easiest way to do it currently is to enter the text first, select it, and then add the link.

10 GUI problems at 800x600:
select box arrow is cut off
hidden "Insert" and "Cancel" buttons
(Links have screenshots.)

11 Thanks - that's a bit funky.  I'll take a look at that.  It might have something to do with K-Meleon, but either way I should be able to fix it.

12 Ran a test for post title collisions (the two posts below this one), and (1) the world didn't end, (2) nothing disappeared, (3) both individual post links (the ones under the timestamp) now appear to point to the most recent post. (1) and (2) are definitely wins. (3) makes sense, but could cause some confusion. IMO, not major enough to call a "bug," but FWIW...

13 Yeah, I'm going to tweak that a bit. It's a known issue, but not, as you say, a critical one.

I'll be addressing this in two ways: First, it will disambiguate posts by adding a _2, _3, and so on to duplicate entries.

Second, you'll be able to manually edit the URL (or at least, the last part of the URL) on the post screen.

That should be in place by the weekend.

14 Where's the comment template?  [comments:here]?

15 It's in hiding for now - I need to make a couple of changes to it.  I'll post it later today or early tomorrow.

16 Actually, it's a very minor change, so I'll post it in docs and update it tomorrow.

The change is that the [comment.iphash] tag will become [comment.ip.hash] in the updated release this weekend.

17

PORN!

[post.clean], which is used to show comment text in the sidebar, cleans out NSFW tags so all that NSFW goodness gets posted in its full glory right on the front page of ur blog.  See the example at the top of this post.

18 Tried to figure out how to create a new page that wasn't a category-style page that I'd use to do some other testing.  Created a new, minimal Page template and a new folder of type Site with a relative path (testpage) and set the page template to the new template.  The page comes up, but the template isn't being used.  Not sure exactly what's going on (kinda examining things and guessing as to how it goes together)...

19

[post.clean], which is used to show comment text in the sidebar, cleans out NSFW tags so all that NSFW goodness gets posted in its full glory right on the front page of ur blog.

It will also remove images, so for most purposes that won't be a problem.  It is a problem for spoilers, though.

20 Anybody else in favor of an "attaboy" for the automatic layout adjustment? I've been trading off between machines, one at 800x600 and the other 1024x768. I've been loading my sidebar with images and finde it TREMENDOUSLY convenient that I didn't have to futz around with conditionals to accommodate different page resolutions.

21

Hey, just wanted to point out that I'm writing posts[/url/ on the [url=http://youredoingitwrong.mee.nu/favicons]blog software and different cool ways on how to customize it.  The link for all beta related posts is http://youredoingitwrong.mee.nu/betanonsense. 

I'd like to try and foster a little neighborhood good will here.  We've all got blogs that may or may not take off.  One of the things that helps blogs live is activity from readers.  So I've added a Locals blogroll to my front page and would like everybody (who give a shit) to do the same.  The first link in my comment is the link to that article.  If you check out my blog you'll see the locals on the right.

The goal is that by reading and posting on other peoples blogs, and letting our readers know about other interesting blogs at mee.nu, we can get us all some of that sweet, sweet reader lovin' that all white girls secretly crave.

In closing, I'd like to once again pimp my blog and make a covert appeal to Pixie to feature my blog prominently in as many places as possible.  Did I say that out loud?

22 Ugh.  Post preview, pls.

23 The [ magic.pager ] page control contains a &lt;center> tag in it that completely dicks with floating DIVs... Could you take that tag out, pretty please???  Thx.

24 This is odd.  This is also Ted, but I repeat myself.

Mookie logged in to Minx and now it will not let her log out.  So I cannot get to my site to edit, and any comments I make default to her name and info.

I did find the "log out" link at the bottom of my beta edit menu, and it worked great.  Ted got logged right out.  But Mookie didn't.  There needs to be a way to log out for people with mee.nu sites who share a PC.  Or maybe there is and I haven't found it.

Perhaps always leave the login boxes on the mee.nu main page, but add a message saying "hi, you are already logged in" using the 'you' tag above it if someone is already/still logged on..

25 That is weird.  But if you go to the standalone login page at http://mee.nu/login and log in again, it should toss your cookies and give you a new session.

I'll file it as a bug and see if I can replicate it. _{⁽¹⁷⁴⁾}

26 Hmmm... Going to the mee.nu login page had no effect.  What I finally did was log in through beta.mu.nu and that did the trick.  I'm in the process of writing a "quick start" guide for newbies - obviously from the viewpoint of a noob - and I'm confusing myself with all these domain crossovers and connections.  LOL

Genuine newbies won't have to deal with that, so at this point I'm making things harder on myself than they have to be.

27 Hmm.  Wonder why that happens... When both mee.nu and mu.nu are running live on Minx, the same thing could happen, so I'll take a look.

28 [posts:here sort=updated] doesn't work.  Tried to use it to sort my front page posts by order of updated; that way I can easily bump posts back to the top by changing them...

29 Sorry, you'll have to wait a little bit on the sorting options.  I'm trying to get them ready for today's update; if not, they'll be in tomorrow.

30 Not today, I'm afraid, but that's number one for tomorrow unless something breaks suddenly.

31

1) [post.text] surrounds text in a <P> tag (notice the capitol); should be <p> and </p> at the end (hey, I'm not a HTML nazi, but some people are)

2) RSS feeds fail.  Atom is working, but RSS isn't.  Templates for both would be greatly appreciated

3) Could you check my comment posting template?  Not sure which one it is-- the one I'm looking at right now as I write this comment.  Font size has been shot up to 125%, and I'm not exactly sure why.

Thanks!

32 Also, [comment.text.clean] has a bad line break at the end of it--<br> rather than </br>.

33

[post.text] surrounds text in a <P> tag (notice the capitol); should be <p> and </p> at the end (hey, I'm not a HTML nazi, but some people are)

Fair 'nough.  I'll fix that.

2) RSS feeds fail.  Atom is working, but RSS isn't.  Templates for both would be greatly appreciated

Hmm.  I noticed something funny there - Firefox wouldn't pick it up, even though the RSS feed validates fine. I'll take another look.

Soon as I have the problem fixed I'll post both on the resources page.

3) Could you check my comment posting template?  Not sure which one it is-- the one I'm looking at right now as I write this comment.  Font size has been shot up to 125%, and I'm not exactly sure why.

I'll take a look.

Also, [comment.text.clean] has a bad line break at the end of it--<br> rather than </br>.

Should be <br/>, you mean?  I'll fix that.

34 Oh, and the sorting options are working on the test system, so I'll be uploading them in the next update... about twelve hours from now.  Just enough time to get a little sleep first.

35

2) RSS feeds fail.  Atom is working, but RSS isn't.  Templates for both would be greatly appreciated

Eep!  Okay, I've screwed something up here.  Let me see...  Right, it's selecting the wrong template.  Fixed!

36 I just recategorized a bunch of posts from no category to having a category, and they don't show up when I view the category URL. Compare http://nelrob.mee.nu/general with http://nelrob.mee.nu/searches "general" should have about 7 posts.

37 Hmm.  You went into each post and assigned it a category, right?  That should definitely work.  I'll take a look.  I'll also be adding a feature on the post edit page so that you can see all the categories a post is assigned to.

38 I just tried your Search feature and got: 500 Internal Server Error

The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.

(My main page has Technocrati's Search but if you click an individual post it goes to a different Sidebar that has the original Search)

39 Whoops.  Fixed!

40 For some reason the title cuts off my tagline on my site. Is there a way to expand the character limit or something else to fix it?

41 That's basically an issue with the font size.  The way to make sure it shows exactly what you want is to replace the titlebox div in your banner template with an image.  Alternately, I could use absolute rather than relative sizes in the standard CSS...

42 Pixy!

My friend created a site last night, vandevanland, with the screen name Dear Leader.

She never got a confirmation email, and the system is being stubborn about logging her on.  Can you fix it, or email her a new password?  Her email is vandevanderrb7620 -at- mbc -dot- edu

Thank you

43 This one is NOT a bug.

But Pixy (and anyone else who does web design) might find it amusing nonetheless.

44 Mookie - yep, I'll do that.

45

HEY!  Pix!

[comment.author.name] is blank when the author is either 1) the person logged in or 2) the blog owner (not sure which).  I used this little feature to highlight my comments, but its broke now. 

Can this be reverted to its original function, or is there another way I can identify the author of a comment as the owner of the blog?  Thizzanks!

46 That's very odd.  I'll get that fixed.

47 Possible cache issue on sites page? (Screenshots here)

Symptom: First visited page 1, then page 2, possibly page 3. No problems noted. At page 4 (?), got bottom graphic in the wrong place as in shot 1. Hit "force reload" (which ignores cached files), page then rendered correctly, as in shot 2. Same problem with page 5.
Just now went to page 1 again, and this time it rendered as in shot 1, i.e., with the bottom screwed. Two different CSS files?

48 Call me an idiot, but I can`t seem to find the place in the template where I can update my blogroll.  I put them there, but can`t remember how I did it and am having no luck finding them.  Can you tell me what to do, Pixy?  I feel stupid having to ask, but have run out of ideas.

49 Hi Timothy!
Log in, then on your "EDIT" page click "TEMPLATES", then "BLOGROLL" (in my Templates lists it's the third item in the "Include" group). That will get you to an editing screen. Blogroll entries are standard hyperlinks. Don't forget to save (button below edit box) when you're done.

50 Thank you, Old Grouch! Let me give it a try.

51 I just checked and find an entry for blogroll on the sidebar in the includes, but it doesn`t show any of my list.  I am very puzzled.

52 That's odd; it should be created automatically.

But if you create a new template, with a type of "Include" and the name  "Blogroll", then just put the HTML for your blogroll into it, that will work fine.

We don't have a specific blogroll maintenance screen yet, but that is on its way.

53

The "Frequently Asked Questions" post (just above this one) won't let you (well, it won't let me) comment on it.

I was going to ask a question there; this really isn't the place for it.

54 I am trying to update the blogroll (I tihnk of sushi when I see that word) but the url is http://salamisangwich.mee.nu/www.thebiglead.com, not just www.biglead.com.

What am I doing wrong? I know what hyperlinks look like and I only see the www.biglead.com url in the template.

Thanks!

55 Hi langmick! You have to put the "http://" in front of the address, otherwise the system assumes that the url is a file in your directory, and adds the "http://salamisangwich.mee.nu/" to it (so outsiders get a complete address).
So in your case, the address part of the link code should read "http://www.thebiglead.com".

56 HI i need your help i really want to create my own website/web page but i dont know how to go about doing it so can you please help me out

1 Okay, you SAID "wish"! :-)

Have been playing with the foobar2000 music player, and admired a feature that might save you a ton of tech-support headaches: Most of foobar's information displays are user-configurable, and every one of the program's configuration boxes includes a "reset" button, which reloads the default code when clicked. That might be really handy on the template configuration screens... especially for any of us who might screw things up beyond hope of figuring it out.
Just a thought...

2 Being able to embed more than just youtube clips.  The one site I enjoy going to is Heep:  http://www.heep.co.il/heep/home

I would like to be able to add some of those clips to the blog here.

3 To pick up on my request for the link editor, I would also like to be able to set defaults, for example my images I always like the 3px frame border and it would be nice not to select it everytime.

4

Most of foobar's information displays are user-configurable, and every one of the program's configuration boxes includes a "reset" button, which reloads the default code when clicked. That might be really handy on the template configuration screens... especially for any of us who might screw things up beyond hope of figuring it out.

A reset-to-default button is definitely a good idea.  With some of the more advanced templates, you could potentially break the edit screens too, so you need some way of resetting to something you know works.

5

Being able to embed more than just youtube clips.  The one site I enjoy going to is Heep:  http://www.heep.co.il/heep/home

Will do.

If there are sites that people use content from or link to frequently, I can certainly put in tags like  the [youtube] tag for them.  For example, there's a [wikipedia] or [wp] tag: [wp=Youtube] does this: Youtube.

I know of many of the big sites, but it would be great if people would mention their personal favourites here.

6

To pick up on my request for the link editor, I would also like to be able to set defaults, for example my images I always like the 3px frame border and it would be nice not to select it everytime.

That's a very good idea, but I'm not sure how to do it.  The editor is (as someone guessed) a 3rd-party product; I'll take a look at the documentation. (It has developer docs, but unfortunately, not really any user docs.)

7 Great.While you are poking around in there it'd also be nice to add a hot-link line in the editor to make images clickable to a website. (If you send me the dev docs I can take a look at work.)

As for adding to the [youtube] and [wiki] tags, I think google (plus other search engines) and dictionary (plus other word look-ups) would be good, plus other video services like yahoo, liveleak, etc.

8

While you are poking around in there it'd also be nice to add a hot-link line in the editor to make images clickable to a website. (If you send me the dev docs I can take a look at work.)

Well, after putting an image in your post, you can click on the link button to link it to somewhere.  But yeah, a field for that in the popup would be nice.

As for adding to the [youtube] and [wiki] tags, I think google (plus other search engines) and dictionary (plus other word look-ups) would be good, plus other video services like yahoo, liveleak, etc.

Yep.  Google, Wiktionary, Yahoo and Google video, were already on the list.  I hadn't heard of Liveleak when I made the original list, but they've been popping up a lot lately.  I have about 40 sites on the list now; it will probably end up being something like 400 by the end of the year...

9

1)  Make Mail: optional for posts.  I'm tired of entering one fake email address after another (does anybody put in a real address???).

2) Preview your posts before submitting them.  Includes comments, too.

3) The smiley template is fun.  I've removed all smileys and replaced them with rude comments about the smiley user by using the template.  I'd like to be able to create a template which basically does the same thing--examines comment text and replaces instances of A with B -- but not have to use the smiley template to do this.  It would match the exact format of the smiley template, being "[look for] [replace with]".  I'd also like the ability to use a regular expression for the text match.  Be real easy to implement some language filters this way... and to treat commenters like dirt, which is always fun.

4) Make updating comments easier with a [update] tag.  This tag would be replaced with the "Update" template.  The template would contain, by default, "<b>Updated on [datetimewhatever]</b></br>" or something similar.  That way when you need to update a post you can just slap that update tag in there and roll.

5) Gimme that tag ([post.whatever]) documentation! 

10

Make Mail: optional for posts.  I'm tired of entering one fake email address after another (does anybody put in a real address???)

If you're logged in, you don't actually need to enter an email address.  If you put an email address in your profile page - real, obfuscated, or fake - that will automatically show up in the comment form.

Preview your posts before submitting them.  Includes comments, too.

Working on it!

I'd like to be able to create a template which basically does the same thing--examines comment text and replaces instances of A with B -- but not have to use the smiley template to do this.

Yep!  This feature is built into the system, but needs a bit more testing before it goes live.

I'd also like the ability to use a regular expression for the text match.

I'll probably be adding this at some point, but regular expressions are a bit of an overkill for the average user.

Make updating comments easier with a [update] tag.  This tag would be replaced with the "Update" template.  The template would contain, by default, "<b>Updated on [datetimewhatever]</b></br>" or something similar.  That way when you need to update a post you can just slap that update tag in there and roll.

That's a great idea!  I'll add that to the list.

Gimme that tag ([post.whatever]) documentation!

Will do.  I had to concentrate on making the system stable - we hit two fairly nasty bugs on the first day of the full-scale beta - but that seems to be under control now, so documentation is a top priority.

11

Here's something for the "wishlist."

A link on the mee.nu home page to a full list of the mee.nu blogs. With new people signing up for the beta left and right, it's been hard to peek in on the neighbors and see what kinds of cool experiments and errors are going on with only the New Sites list.

12 Yep.  I'll do that.

One thing worth noting there:  If you tick the Hidden box on your Manage->Site page, your site won't show up in listings.  That's useful if you... don't want to show up on listings.

13

How about an autobackup feature when writing new posts? Nothing worse than spending an hour on something and having it lost forever due to a glitch. (Yes the Save button is nice and useful but still.)

14 Yep, that's something I intend to do.  It needs to be a nice, reliable AJAX implementation, though, so that it never bothers you while you're typing.

15 Ditto on the full list of the mee.nu blogs, I figure Ace is out here somewhere and I want to tell him he's teh ghey on his new blog.

16

Here's something for the "wishlist."A link on the mee.nu home page to a full list of the mee.nu blogs.

Ta-da!

17

I figure Ace is out here somewhere and I want to tell him he's teh ghey on his new blog.

Actually, the mu.nu bloggers have their own play area

18

Okay then, how about a time-delay Publish feature where you can tell the program to put up a post at 'hh:mm:ss mm/dd/yy' so we can have new stuff show up while on vacation or we can binge write a batch of posts and have them show up at a leisurely pace. 

And spell-check!

19 Time delay is definitely going in, and fairly soon.

Spell-check I haven't made any plans for as yet.  If you use Firefox, the built-in spell-checker works right in the editor.  I believe there are plugins for IE to do the same.

20 Cool. Something I've noticed in this thread, when I click Add Comment I'm back at the top of the page and I have to scroll down to the Comment box. Obviously it would be nice to have the browser come to the window ready for typing.

21 If I'm going to be uploading large files, is there a place that will show me how much of my allotment I've used up, or is that going to be part of the "Statistics" tools still under construction in the Main Menu?

22

Cool. Something I've noticed in this thread, when I click Add Comment I'm back at the top of the page and I have to scroll down to the Comment box. Obviously it would be nice to have the browser come to the window ready for typing.

Really?  That should be fixed now. Let me try...

23 It works for me; at least in this thread.  There's an issue if the thread has unmoderated spam in it - the system gets confused about which is the last comment number.

But other than that, it should work.  Is it coming back with an URL that has #c23 (or something similar) on the end?

24

If I'm going to be uploading large files, is there a place that will show me how much of my allotment I've used up, or is that going to be part of the "Statistics" tools still under construction in the Main Menu?

Yeah, that will show up soon, but isn't there yet - so I'm not enforcing the limit yet either. But don't tell anyone!

25 Well I did upload a second omake. This time it timed out, but still looks like it came through intact. I'll put up a direct link and see how it goes.

26 I'd like to use my own CSS stylesheet, but I'd have to upload it every time I made a minor change in it.  Can we pls open files and edit them in the browser, kinda like the template editor (although, honestly, it sucks for selecting text)?

27 Will do.

28

Being able to embed more than just youtube clips.  The one site I enjoy going to is Heep:  http://www.heep.co.il/heep/home

I went there, but as far as I can tell the entire site is in Hebrew, which makes it tricky.  I have something that I think will do the trick; I've included it in tomorrow's update and we'll see how it goes.

29 Could you pls give us the Form.Comment template?

30 Will do.  There's a certain amount of complexity to the standard comment template, but I'll post the simple version.

31 I can see you're doing something; the fonts on my comment page have all jumped up 100% in size...

32 Actually, fonts on Page.Entry are now at 125%...

33 That wasn't me.

34 And it looks fine to me.  Um.  Browser issue?  Something?

35 How about a thread here at this page for tips and tricks we can share with each other.

For example, I just realized that by putting the code for my site counter in between [ifn user.isowner] and [/ifn] means that when I look at my site the button doesn't show and it doesn't register as a hit so now it should only catch other people visiting.

That may be obvious to experienced bloggers or a standard tip somewhere in user guides for site counters, but for n00bs like myself it's pretty clever. I think.

36 Pix, do a shift-refresh on my comments page and see...  I'll check my css file for any errors...

37

How about a thread here at this page for tips and tricks we can share with each other.

Great idea.

38 Will there be an upgrade for the [magic.pager]? For example an option to jump to end/beginning and configurations where perhaps if you have 20 pages you could either list all 20 or have 1, 5, 10, 15, 20 or have 1, <current-1>, <current>, <current+1>, 20, etc

Also I notice it doesn't see an end-of-line so you can go to a blank page 50 even if there are only 20.

39

Will there be an upgrade for the [magic.pager]?

Yes, absolutely.  I've started work on this, but the new version isn't working yet.

I'm having to make some tweaks first so that it can work out what parts of the page content are and aren't being paged.  Then feed it information on how many items in the paging set there are so it can work out how many pages there are, then it can stop you going off the end, offer a drop-down box for quick page selection, etc etc.

The idea of offering a basic pager widget to start with was so that if everyone uses it (rather than using tags to create their own) then as soon as I upgrade it, everyone gets the advantage of the new one.

40 There's an option for Friends on the Edit page, does that mean that in our Menu bar at the top (or somewhere) there will be a page where we can view... oh the last 20 new posts from various friends?  That way we don't necessarily have to click through all of the blogs we follow.

And when are the rest of the features going to be active?  I'm excited about more stuff to play with!
yay Pixy!

41

There's an option for Friends on the Edit page, does that mean that in our Menu bar at the top (or somewhere) there will be a page where we can view... oh the last 20 new posts from various friends?

Yep, that sort of thing.  I'm going to be concentrating on friends functions (and forums) next week.

And when are the rest of the features going to be active?  I'm excited about more stuff to play with!

I have a big update going in tomorrow, and then friends and forums next week, and then... more stuff.

42

Tell me if I'm just missing it, but here's what I'd kinda like to see...

An options box or menu for editing color layouts and other cosmetic things. Everyone's blog is white with gray borders. I demand pearl with granite borders!

43

I suppose I'm technical enough to fiddle with the css file, but if someone else could work real hard to let me be lazier that would be great.

44 Yep.  I'm planning to do that - create a set of options that automatically slot into the CSS so that you don't have to edit the file for simple changes.

That should happen in the next couple of weeks.

45

I'm a bit fuzzy on how this all works, in part because my CSS-fu is very weak. But it looks to me as if the "Entry" template applies equally to the main page and to the pages for individual posts.

What I want to do is to have a different format for each. In particular, I want to get rid of the sidebar for individual posts so I can use the full pagewidth (for images).

Solution 1 would be if there actually was a different template for each, but that doesn't appear to be the case. Solution 2 would be if there was some sort of flag which could be used with "if" in the "Entry" template that indicated which was being displayed, and thus to include the sidebar only for the main page.

Does such a flag exist? If so, what is its name?

46 Never mind, I figured it out. (And yes, it's two separate files.)

47

Hmmm, is this thread dead and I should comment somewhere else or send an email? I guess I'll test:

When I went today to New Post and also Edit there was a considerable delay for the page to load, 10 seconds or more from what used to be instant. Any reason?

Also a request - I would like to have a Save button up at the top of the New Post editor screen instead of having to scroll all the way past the Meta and More and Tags and the rest to the bottom of the page.

48

When I went today to New Post and also Edit there was a considerable delay for the page to load, 10 seconds or more from what used to be instant. Any reason?

Hmm.  Might have been network delays somewhere between you and the server.  I'm not seeing any slowdown on the server side.  But definitely let me know if you see this again.

I would like to have a Save button up at the top of the New Post editor screen instead of having to scroll all the way past the Meta and More and Tags and the rest to the bottom of the page.

See that button at the top left in each editor?  Is save button!

1 Can we edit the blogroll? And if so, what option is it under?

2 Never mind, figured it out.

3 Yep, just edit the Include.Blogroll template.  It's pretty basic, but works.

We'll be adding a fancier blogroll management system later on, but you'll be able to import your existing blogroll, so feel free to play around.

4 Is it possible for us to remove (or, preferably, reformat) the performance stats at the bottom of the page?  I realize that it's probably there temporarily for debugging, but I thought I'd ask.

(This is my third attempt to post this)

5 Yes, it's there temporarily for debugging.  Look for the [magic.stats] tag near the bottom of the template.

And yeah, comments seem to have gone wonky all of a sudden.

6 Just checking on the comment posting issue.  Test #1...

7 Just checking on the comment posting issue.  Test #2...

8 Hmm.

9

hmm, indeed.

Where'd my question go?

10

It doesn't like my wordpress address in the Web box.

Love the post editor.

Do you know of a resource for stylesheet templates?  Wordpress gave us a bunch of easy tamplates so I haven't played with CSS.

Also, is Java Script allowed?

 

11

hmm, indeed.

Where'd my question go?

Sorry, we were having a problem with the comments just in these sections on the main site.  All fixed now.

12

It doesn't like my wordpress address in the Web box.

That's odd.  What message does it give you?  It doesn't look like Wordpress is banned.

13

Do you know of a resource for stylesheet templates?  Wordpress gave us a bunch of easy tamplates so I haven't played with CSS.

I don't really have anything yet.  I'm going to work up some examples so that people can see how to do it, and then maybe users will contribute some oftheir own efforts.

14

Also, is Java Script allowed?

On paid accounts - and the beta accounts are treated as paid accounts - you can use JavaScript.  Free (ad-supported) accounts will be more restricted.

15

No message,  the page refreshes and the comment  is just gone. 

Unlike at AoS where I  get a "Wordpress.com is banned" message.

16 Is it still happening?  There was a different problem that was causing that exact result, which I've just fixed.

17 I'm sure this is just something I'm missing, but is it possible to edit the .css file directly rather than having to over ride its settings via the td tags?

18 Yes, I've started on documenting how to do that here.

19 I'm looking at the "category" section in the folders, and I want to ask, is this the same kind of category that other blogs usually use to separate different posting topics?

20 Yep, that's it exactly.  The folder system is a general way of organising posts (and other items) into groups for any purpose - including categories.

I don't have a dedicated screen yet for creating new categories, but take a look at the example one and copy that for your other categories and you won't go too far wrong.

21

Well speaking of categories.

I've already created an "anime" category, but before I did, I wrote a couple posts that were unassigned. When I moved them into the anime folder/category, they list as part of that category (and show up as such on the main page (after a bit of fiddling with the template)), but if you filter for only posts in the anime category, they aren't listed.

I have three posts on the main page in the anime category, but if you click through to the anime category, only the post that was created after the category appears.

22 Where on the main page do the categories appear?

23 Will - I'll test that out and get back to you

mAcChaos - They aren't listed by default, but I'll post some examples of that shortly.

24

They don't in the default template.

First you have to create the category.

1) Go to your edit page and under "manage" click "folders".

2) A page titled "Edit Folder" will appear. In the "type" field type "Category". In the "name" field, give the category a name. Finally, in the "path" field, you'll like want to use the same name you used for name (but I'd avoid the use of anything other than number or letters)

3) Click save.

That's the bare-bones basics (as I understand it after fiddling around a bit) of creating a category. You can edit any of those properties later.

25 If you want to list the categories, rather than create new ones, some template code for that is as follows:

<h2>Categories</h2>
<ul>
[categories]
<li><a href="/[category.path]">[category.name]</a></li>
[/categories]
</ul>

The [categories] tag selects all your folders of type "Category".  The name is, well, the name you gave it, and the path is the path.  So that code will create a nice little list of clickable links to your category pages.

You can see it at work in my sidebar.

26

That's just the tag I was looking for.

I was dreading the idea of manually editing the sidebar template everytime I added a new category.

27 Yay!

There are a huge number of tags available, and I really need to sit down and document them all.  If I document three or four each day, I'll be done... by the end of next year.

28

I was going about displaying them in the sidebar an entirely different way. I'd already created an Includes template with a manually written list of the categories I wanted to appear, similar to how the blogroll is treated. Then I just ahem... included that in the sidebar template.

Is there going to be an option for listing a post in multiple categories? Maybe that's already possible, but I'm just not seeing it.

29 Yes, if you use the "Copy To" option in the Posts (listing) screen, that should do the trick.  I'm going to add that functionality to the post edit screen as well.

30 For what it is worth, putting a pre-existing post into a new category worked fine for me.

31 FWIW
I made my Category tags for my posts clickable using this code

<a href="[post.category]"><img src="/icons/folder_[post.category].gif"
         align="left" height="48" width="48"
         border="0" alt="[post.category]" title="[post.category]" /></a>

32 And then I took out the height and width because it was moving the titles of some of my other posts.

QUESTION: How can I edit the image that shows up in the browser address bar/bookmark page? Right now it is a rose.

33 nm, made a favicon and added it to my Header template!

34 It's actually a cherry, because mee.nu is built on the CherryPy web framework but at 16x16 pixels it's hard to tell.

35

ABWTF: did you use the "move to" or "copy to"? My problem is that I write a post, then realize I don't have a category for it. I save and publish the post, then create the category. If I then try to move the post into the new category, Minx appears to register the move. The category link I've placed in the post footer shows up, and in the post management page, it clearly shows it being in the right category.

But,

If you click on the Category link in the post footer, only posts that have been published to that category from the beginning will appear in the filtered list. I'm going to go try the "copy to" and see what that borks.

36

Well, "copy to" (it's actually "add to") didn't work either. I'm really stumped on this one.

However I did find a workaround for the wonky status pulldown in the post composition page(at least until Pixy fixes it). If you go to the post list, there is a publish function in one of the lower pulldowns. I did not see that before for some odd reason.

37 I'll definitely get the publish pulldown fixed today.  Then I'll tackle the problems you're having with categories; that should work.

38

WILL: I don't recall how I did it but I didn't use Move or Copy. I think I simply used Edit to put the post in the category. So perhaps it was really more of a workaround to a bug you found.

QUESTION: What is the Pending category? Would it by any chance be a step up from Draft where I can see it as it would appear on the blog and so I can make changes before doing an edit?

39

Is the Search feature supposed to work or not yet active?

Also for the record even if you can't do anything about it, I've found a few bugs with the Post editor, for example I saved some text for a Post header so I didn't have to recreate it each time but posting it in adds a few items and changes a few <'s into something like &#%. Also I find if I change font sizes of text the </span> doesn't always seem to go in the correct place.

40 Why is my blog okay in internet explorer but sucky in firefox?

41

Is the Search feature supposed to work or not yet active?

It's definitely supposed to work, and it works just fine on my blog, and it doesn't work for anyone else, which is quite annoying!

42

Why is my blog okay in internet explorer but sucky in firefox?

Well, the main reason for that sort of thing is that Internet Explorer doesn't work right, but that doesn't help you much.

Which blog is yours?

43 Never mind, found it!

The blue text is because you forgot to close the <font> tag in your banner.  IE is automatically closing it; Firefox isn't.  I'm not sure which behaviour is technically correct in this case...

Hope that helps a bit more than my previous comment.

44 I seem to have misplaced the code for 'Next Page' so currently I have mine set to show 15 most recent giving me posts 10-24 but no link to get the older 1-9.

45 You want [magic.pager]

46 Nice looking site, too.

47 Thanks! You've made it easy

48

Laughable newbie question:

I have a domain name at godaddy.com. I have their Domain Control Center up on my screen and want to put my mee.nu site in the Nameserver box.

My goal is for people to get from my domain name (rittenhouse.net) to the mee.nu site (rittenhouse.mee.nu).

What do I enter in the Nameserver box?

49 Not a newbie question!  A very good question!

The problem is, we don't fully support that yet.  Probably by early May.

Right now, I think you could use Godaddy's forwarding to redirect rittenhouse.net to rittenhouse.mee.nu.  I'm doing that with one of my domains, but I haven't tried setting it up with Godaddy.

Once it is fully supported, you'll be able to add an alternate site in your control panel here so that rittenhouse.net links to rittenhouse.mee.nu.  Then at Godaddy, you'll set it up so that they host your DNS, and set rittenhouse.net as a CNAME for rittenhouse.mee.nu.  Just don't try this right now.

50 Okay I did a post on list of shooting at US schools and Digg-ed myself. But it turned out to do the whole site http://abw.mee.nu instead of the post if wanted http://abw.mee.nu/27

Looking back now this is code they give for 'page other than current'

<script type="text/javascript">
digg_url = 'WEBSITE_URL';
</script>
<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>


So for Website_url I should have done [post.id] or or [post.path] or what? And that would automatically substitute individual post urls, or would I have to do each of these individually and manually set them up?

(btw everyone feel free to Digg my post higher!)

51

Re: 49

Thanks, Pixy. With your guidance I was able to find the correct instructions at godaddy. http://help.godaddy.com/article.php?article_id=422

52

Thanks, Pixy. With your guidance I was able to find the correct instructions at godaddy.

Cool.  I should start rounding up links to instructions for the various registrars.

53

So for Website_url I should have done [post.id] or or [post.path] or what? And that would automatically substitute individual post urls, or would I have to do each of these individually and manually set them up?

Hmm. I clicked on the Digg link and it came up with the right URL.  I didn't go through with Digging it though.

54 smilies.mu.nu

Neither IE nor Mozilla can find it?

55 That should be smilies.mee.nu.  Where did I get the link wrong?

56 I must have copied the address incorrectly.  

smilies.mee.nu

worked just fine.  Thanks again.

57 Okay, no problem.

58 re: Digg - I went ahead and changed it manually to be for that individual post but it's a bit of a hassle. Looking at Hot Air and LGF, I now suspect it has to be done for each post which is a shame because it's annoying to put in.

Using Firefox I cannot edit a post after I've saved it with the Digg code. When I try to reopen it gets caught in a loop (I gave it over a minute, perhaps eventually the text would fill in) so I have to go to IE, but there when I put in the code it does something with the code and I often get 3 or 5 Digg buttons and I have to re-edit the post 3 or 4 times to get just 1 Digg button in the center.

Some of that may be user error and learning curve of course. It's a low priority issue for me (ie, multiple categories for posts ranks much higher) but take a look at it some time or maybe ask around.

And you didn't go through with the Digg? Booooooooooooo!

59 Banners wont show up in firefox, and I can't edit a post in it either... Is it a problem on my end?

60 I use Firefox as my main browser, so it's not a universal problem.  And I can see your banner okay.

Hmm.  What version of Firefox?  Since Firefox automatically updates itself, that shouldn't be an issue, but it's worth checking. I'm running 2.0.0.3.

61

Mr. Misa, I'm ready for my close-up.

I.e., to be listed as a "new blog."

8-)

62 The new blog list is automatic - it shows the last ten blogs created.  You've already scrolled of the list.

But you are on the site list.

63

Hmm. Sorry to differ, but I clicked through eight pages of the site list and didn't find myself.

 

64

Oop, there it is, under "Welcome to Rittenhouse." Sorry!

65 I'm on the same version of FF.
Hm, if its just a me-problem no worries cause eh.
Thanks Pixy!

66 found the problem... My adblocker was being a bit to aggressive with the banners.

67 Aha!  Yes, anything called "banner" can cause problems with some of those filters.

68 abwtf, thanks for the code here. Just the answer I was looking for!

69 (Ahem) However, it's suffering from the same naming restrictions I'm having with my category icons. When Pixy gets the new tag working, you'll probably want th change the code to:
<a href="/[post.category.nospace]"><img src="/icons/folder_[post.category.nospace].gif" align="left" height="48" width="48" border="0" alt="[post.category]" title="[post.category]" /></a>

70 fwiw, on the issue of categories another behavior to note, I published a few posts to one category (general) then created a new category (politics) and changed a few posts to that category. Although they work with the new category, if I go to the original category the old posts still show up there as well.

71

Although they work with the new category, if I go to the original category the old posts still show up there as well.

If you select the posts in the listing screen, you can use the Remove From option to take them out of the old category. The Move To function does what you wanted to do in the first place.

I'll be adding that functionality to the post editing screen as well, but it's slightly harder because it needs to be AJAX to work well.

72 I have a better solution for the category icons thingy: I've added a nospace formatting command. So you can have [post.category format=nospace] and it will do what [post.category.nospace] was supposed to do.  The advantage is that you can use format=nospace on any text tag.

This is in place and working now.

73 See this post for details of all formatting options.

74 Hey, that's neat. Nice, extendable solution. (Runs off to change his template.)

75 'Ray! It worked! Now I have to get back to finishing my other category icons!

76 Okay my favicon (little picture in the address bar that comes before the URL) is now a leaf. I didn't change it or do anything. I try to delete that file and re-upload the correct one (matching the banner image) it remains a leaf.

I had a friend look at the blog and she did not get the leaf but that may be cached info somewhere. Any ideas?

77 Ya, my favicon is changed now, too.  Where's my F-?

78 I just noticed it's the mee.nu favicon so I guess that is overriding some how.

79 Well, that's weird.  McGurk, I'm seeing your F- okay, but I do see the leaf on abwtf.  Um.  I'll give it a kick.

80 Right.  I still had the leaf in the default images directory, which should be checked after your personal directory, but was being checked first...  It may take a while for your browser to recognise that it's gone; I had to manually load the favicon.ico file itself to get Firefox to do it.

81 I can't seem to figure out how to edit a draft that I have not yet published...is this possible or am I not looking in the right place?

82 Oh...I think I figured it out. I need to publish the draft first if I want to edit it, yes?

83 No...  At least, you shouldn't need to do that.

Let me just make sure that's working properly.

84 Oops. ops: 

Okay, no wonder it was hard to work out!  I'll fix that right away.  (I made some changes to the way post statuses are handled a couple of days ago, and it looks like I missed that function.)

85 Okay, fixed now.  Thanks!

86 Ahhhhh! The leaf favicon is back!

87 Unpossible!

I'll take a look.  It might just be your browser cache going above and beyond...

88 More weirdness. I made my blog a bit wider and then realized the banner jpg had to be adjusted. So I try and upload the new version and from somewhere the original is still being found. I clear my cache and the banner doesn't change. I delete the file from my image folder and clear my cache and the banner is still there.

(Easy way to spot the difference is there's a small bar of black under the picture in the original banner and in the new one there is no black under the space pic.)

89 It's not supposed to do that!

90 Okay I'll say the banner issue was something in the browser cache not clearing. I was able to work it to an acceptable resolution.

btw, it looks like the image links are case sensitive so <a href="abc.jpg"> won't find abc.JPG for example. Is that normal?

91

it looks like the image links are case sensitive so <a href="abc.jpg"> won't find abc.JPG for example. Is that normal?

It depends on the web server, but it's pretty normal for filenames to be case-sensitive.

92 I got blog comment spam! Should I just delete it or do you want to do any sort of investigation on it to figure out how to block it? Is banning users/IPs something we can do? And how long before there is anything like a verification or login process for comments?

93

I got blog comment spam!

Doesn't take them long, does it?

Should I just delete it or do you want to do any sort of investigation on it to figure out how to block it?

Mark it as junk for now; that way I can look at it and block the sender.

Is banning users/IPs something we can do?

You'll be able to ban users (that should arrive next week), but of course that will only be effective once registration is required for commenting.

And how long before there is anything like a verification or login process for comments?

I can't require logins for commenting just yet, because I'm only allowing registration by beta testers, but once we open up, that will be how it works.  Say, three weeks at most.

I have two different spam filters in place, one based on the comment text and another that tries to detect a spambot by its behaviour.  The second filter actually auto-bans IPs and websites, and it's pretty effective.  I'll be putting in an updated version of comment-text filter this weekend to try to improve that one as well.

94 When I use this code: Categories [categories] [category.name] [/categories] It only lists the categories on the first page; any category from the second page on is left off.

95 Oops.  There's the pager bug again.  When it sees you're on page two it's trying to display the second page of categories as well.  And unless you have more than 20 or so categories, there is no second page.

I have a fix for that; I'll put it into tomorrow's update.

96 In your opinion, which are some of the best-looking blogs currently up here at mee.nu?

97 Who, me?  (Hides under table.)

I think people are still feeling their way towards customising the basic style and templates.  The documentation shortage doesn't help, but there are some interesting things going on.

98 Question about page behavior.

Is the "more" link supposed to take you to the individual post page, or is it supposed to expand the text right there, as the "comments" link does. Seems to me I remember it opening in place, but (for me) today it doesn't. (JavaScript enabled, just checked.)

99 With the standard templates, it takes you to the individual page.

100 Gotcha. Thanks!

101 Here's a layout question, all are welcome to chime in. Please take a look at this post. Notice how the second image extends below (and screws up the "posted by" line. (The same thing happens on the main page.) Obviously, I'm bumping up against the limits of HTML as layout!
>So how to fix it? The only thing I can think of is to add another<
em> image, say 1px high by 500px wide, to force the "posted by" text past the bottom of the second image. Any other ideas?

102 Dang, really miss that preview.

103 And now I've let the italics out!

104 Dang.  You shouldn't be able to let the italics out!

105 I think I know how the italics escaped; I'll add it to my bug tracker.

106 Are we not able to edit comments?

Also unless I missed something <blockquote>some html</blockquote> doesn't <b>work</b> in <i>comments</i>.

107

Are we not able to edit comments?

Not yet - I'll see if I can include that in the next update (this Sunday).

Also unless I missed something <blockquote>some html</blockquote> doesn't <b>work</b> in <i>comments</i>.

You can't enter HTML directly into the WYSIWYG editor.  You can use the HTML editor (click on the <> button) if you want to do that.

108 Very nice blog site, and thanks for the free trial!

Two small glitches in the box displaying the tagline:
1. Descenders get cut off. That is, no tail on gees, jays, ques, commas, etc.
2.Also, there's a length limit, beyond which text simply disappears. If you try to save space by removing spaces after periods and commas, the entire string disappears. Way low on the priority list, but I'd like the editor to block typing when the limit is reached.

109

1. Descenders get cut off. That is, no tail on gees, jays, ques, commas, etc.

Yes, this is a known problem that depends on what browser you're running, your font selection, your default font size...  I'm meeting with our new graphic designer on Monday to work on issues like this.  We'll be producing a new set of themes/styles for your blog, and we'll fix this in the process.

Also, there's a length limit, beyond which text simply disappears. If you try to save space by removing spaces after periods and commas, the entire string disappears.

Um...  That's odd, it shouldn't do that.  What browser are you using?

110 Echoing refugee's problem.  I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.4

111 Like Doug Ousting, I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.4.

My current tagline reads, "Descenders cut off: gjpq,(gee,jay,pee,que,comma).  Plus, here's some extra text to get truncated." I didn't put in any line breaks.

Viewing with  IE 7.0.5730.11, descenders appear, but the second sentence wraps to the next line and only the top line of pixels appears.

In FF, the second line does not appear at all.

And thanks for the quick response.

112 Oh, I forgot to say, I'm using default fonts and sizes. And for "top line of pixels" read "top row of pixels on the second line of text."

113 Here's a minor, minor buglet: the 'more/over-the-fold' feature does not play well with untitled posts.

I created a new post with some text in the "more" section. I forgot to enter a title. The result was that my main page showed the first part of the text plus a "more ..." hyperlink pointing to "http://borders.mee.nu/#more". I've since added a title and the "more ..." hyperlink now works.

Related wishlist item: could we have a "warn me if I try to post without supplying a title" setting?

114 Ah, good catch.  There are a couple of problems relating to untitled posts, but I hadn't thought of that one.

The system itself allows untitled posts, but the standard templates tend to trip up.  I'll have a think about the best way to tidy that up.

115 Ok... So, I'm trying to figure this one out. How do we Ping or trackback to other blogs? I thought there may be a "URLs to Ping" option somewhere, but can't seem to find it. Thoughts?

116 Sorry, we don't support trackbacks yet, either incoming or outgoing, due to the massive scale of trackback spam (about 99.8% of all trackbacks are spam).

We're working on this, though.  Expect an update next month.

117 Thanks Pixy Misa!

118

I need a little help.  I am trying to install a custom title header. Where/how do I insert my image link?    I am a republican retard so please talk slowly using small simple words.  Thank you.

119

You want the Include / Banner template.  You'll want to remove the whole "titlebox" div, and put your image in its place.

120 I knew it would be be simple.  Thanks.

121 Well, I have a talent for screwing up even the simplest of tasks.  I didn't make a backup of the original banner template.  Is there a default banner template so that I can fix what I broke?

122 I've posted it here in the resources section.

123 Is there a way to rename a site?

124 You mean change the address?  Not just yet, but I can probably fit that into tomorrow's update.

125 yep, the address.

126 No problem.  I'll get that into tomorrow's update; then go to the Manage Site option.

127 You should be able to change it now - the field is at the bottom of the site page.

128 Thank you sir!

129 Question for you all.

I see that there's a version of my template to have 3 columns. Question is, how do I get content to appear on the second column. I tried once and I screwed up royally.

halp!

-Chuck

130 I hope this question goes here. How can I change the banner at the top with the title of my site, not only about the style but that it can say something different?

131 I'm an idiot. You're doing this beautiful thing, and I knew that, but I didn't (for some reason) look over here to realize that new-mu-nu isn't MT based.

No, really. I just spent hours (days, weeks, months) updating the look and feel of the old MT site - fixing up the CSS and the templates.

Is there no way to port any of this over? Thanks.

I'm gonna go whack my head on the desk a little until I feel better. *sigh*

132 I am a new member here. I am from the US and am years old. I am here to share my experiences and gain from your expertise. I am from Jamaica and bad know English, give true I wrote the following sentence: "Email icon sign up to receive retirement and planning events email updates." Thank you so much for your future answers :-). Marli.

133 Hi it's Buffon owner of DequalsS.com which is now in limbo.  I have been a proud long time member of the Moronosphere and wonder if you could help propagating my new site address to the other Morons.

New site, http://dequalss.blogspot.com/

Please advise....

1 I'd love a RSS feed that lists all comments posted.  That way I can get a notification of when somebody posts on me blarg... blog, sorry.

2

I'm still inexperienced in RSS feeds, so I have a basic question.

If, as I usually do, I publish an entry then go back and make changes (hard to know what it's going to look like unless I do), will my RSS subscribers see the "draft," or will they get the version I finally settle on?

3 They'll get the final version.  Depending on the RSS reader used, they might end with an out-of-date summary, but when they view the whole post they should always get the current version.

1

Loing and when i try to do anything I get:

 

You are not authorised to access this page.

2 Hi watchman.  Do you have cookies blocked?  mee.nu uses a cookie to track your login, and if you block cookies, it forgets who you are imediately after you log in.

3 Unable to register with key I was given.. when submitting, it blanks the form and offers it to me again.  Any ideas?

4 Email me at beta -at- mee.nu and I'll send you a new key; we'll see if that helps.

5 Maybe the wrong thread to be asking this, but is there a way to change the URL that I created when I registered? Or is there a way to delete it and start over with a new one?

6 The system doesn't let you do this yet, but email me (help at mee.nu) and I'll change it for you.

7

I am on mu.nu, want to transfer to mee.nu.

Do I re-register or is there some secret to get from mu.nu to mee.nu?

8 Hi QW.

I'll handle all the transfers from mu.nu to mee.nu.  I'll put you on the list.

9

.... I logged in, but I can't seem to do much else..... cookies were initially disabled, but I have allowed them for mee.nu now and still have no luck.... what'd I break, big guy?.....

 

 

10 Not sure - we were having some technical problems overnight, now fixed.  Give it another try, and if it's still not working, email me at help@mee.nu.

11 Fledgling blogger here! Gradually getting acclimatized, but I can't find any info on the differences between free and paid accounts! Or costs for paid accounts.

12

Hi Pixy,

I have been away for quite a while but I see my blog is still up (thanks for keeping it warm and dry for me).  My login to gain access to movable type from here was saved on my laptop which was two laptops ago.  I'd like to resume blogging so if you could send me my login and password that would be appreciated.  The blog is http://countermeasures.mu.nu.  If it's not that simple, just email me and I'm sure we can figure something out.

Aside: What is mee.nu and how does it compare to mu.nu?

Thanks!

13 Hi. I'm trying to register to start a free site, but the form returns the error that my username is taken. It's common enough, but with a new username, the form returns that their is already a user with my email registered. Two possibilities: 1) First time through, I got an internal server error. I might be half registered. 2) I post at ace.mu.nu frequently. Does my handle show up as a registered user? Thanks

1

Drat, it ate my first comment.

I think there's something ownky with the post status pulldown. I saved a post as "draft", and when I came back, the "publish" at the top of the stauts pulldown lisy had been over written by "draft." So I tried changing to "published" to see if that would do anything. All it did was replace the first item in the lest with "published" and the post still doesn't appear.

2 Yes, it seems to be eating comments.  I'm working on that.

I'll get that pulldown list fixed too.

3

Stupid newbie question: What controls the "more" tag. When I wrote this three-sentence post, I'm sure I didn't go anywhere near the "more" window, yet there it is. (Yet in the previous post it's not there.

Also reporting that the WYSIWYG post editor seems to work fine in both K-Meleon 0.9 on Windows 98 and K-Meleon 1.02 on Windows XP.

4 However, I see BBCode doesn't have paragraph tags.

5

What's Windows 98?

Dunno if there is a paragraph tag or not, but you didn't have a closing tag, so it wouldn't have worked no matter what.

You might have screwed up your post template, which caused the conditional to fail...

6 Actually, if you even click in the More box, it creates a <br> tag there, and that triggers the more... thingy.  And I just realised that the More box is stealing the cursor on page load, and it captures tabs, so it's very easy to get something in there without it being obvious.

7 "you didn't have a closing tag"

Since the issue "lack of preview sucks" has already been thoroughly aired, I'll not be bringing it up again :-)

8 And hey, I'll have you know I have two machines running DOS 5.0 that still handle 90 percent of my business. So don't go woofin' at my Win98 box.

9 In fact, bbcode will automatically close any open tags - but it doesn't have

, as you've discovered.

10 Old Grouch.  Very appropriate.  My dad's still using a shareware text editor to write his books that he bought for our 8088 back in 85. 

11 Oh, and as a software developer, your legacy system scares the shit outta me...

12 It's a Clipper point-of-sale system, with a bunch of extensions written in FoxPro. 38,000 record table (inventory) and 18,000 record table (customers). Impact printers running 2-part burst forms.

13 Lol... Foxpro.  You know MS is releasing Foxpro to open source?  They're going to put the entire codebase on codeplex.  No more MS support, tho.  Last time I dealt with FP was the accounting software package used by a local restaurant chain in 1999.  Fox friggin' pro...  wow.  That's some kind of bullshit.  But it works for you, I guess.  Good luck if it ever stops....

14 Are they going to release the whole thing? Last I'd heard there was talk that they were going to withhold some of the libraries or something such.
AIUI, there is still a ton of legacy FoxPro stuff out there... not so much Clipper anymore. I've been looking at what it'd take to replicate things with newer stuff, but first impression is that the limitations of real SQL are a pain.
Yeah, I know it's fragile. Needless to say, everything is imaged and we keep two offsite backups, one in a different time zone. Anything happen bad enough to knock 'em all out, we'll probably be OB anyway.

15

Limitations of real sql?  Dude, you're living in a sandbox, commenting on the limitations of the playground.  Foxpro is a shitty version of Access.  Access is a shitty version of an application + Sql Server.  I may be wrong, but I believe MS developed Access in response to Foxpro, and that MS eventually bought Foxpro in order to get its client base.  Let's see: foxpro or maybe fox_pro (wikipedia links). 

Anyhow, all Fox and Access are is a VBA (visual basic for applications) development environment/execution engine pasted on the front of a database engine.  Anything you can build in Fox/Access you can build an equivalent system with VB6 with a Sql database.  And that technology's ancient. 

 

16 This is embarassing...but I can't remove the paragraph marks <<  << from my posts. Duuuh. Help.

17 I sure thought I knew how to use the Image button. I get a red X in this entry every time. I'm inserting the HTML tag copied directly from Photobucket.com. Any suggestions?

18 Does it show up in the post?  (I can't see your edit screen.)

There is a problem with the editor, and sometimes it doesn't show images, but they work when you post it.  If it's not working in the post either, that's something else.

19 The image does not show up in the post.

20 Aha!

This is the problem:
">" border="0" alt="http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w70/michaelrittenhouse/DSCN9919.jpg" />
Get rid of those img thingies and you're good.

21 And the
[/IMG]
as well.

22 O.G.  Clipper?!?!?!  I did about a year's worth of development in Clipper, farther back than I care to remember.  IIRC, it was a lot of fun.

23 The Clipper part was purchased (needed to have a PC-based program that could handle item part numbers as well as UPCs, and back in '91 there weren't that many around). Unfortunately, I don't have the source. Fortunately, it still works.

There were an amazing number of applications being written in XBase back then. When I was doing radio (c.a. 1985) I used a Clipper-compiled music scheduling program that ran on whatever Dell was current (amber screen!). It was pretty sophisticated: You tagged each song with characteristics (some were scaled, like "intensity", others were just flags like "male vocal." Then you gave it some rules and the program would block out the hours for you.
Of course that was long before CDDB, so we had to enter all the data ourselves.

24 The links on my posts are randomly not working.  Originally they all worked, but now some of them have stopped. One is a hyperlink, one is a youtube link, and the rest are smilies (which all have the exact same link except for the image name, but only some of them are having problems).  They didn't stop working at the same time either, originally it was one or two smilies then it just kept spreading.  Is there anything I can do to fix it?

25 Hey Pixy,
I wrote a few posts and saved them as drafts and now I can't bring them up to publish them/edit them.  It was working fine yesterday.

Also can we get an auto-save for posts or an idiot-warning like a pop up saying "Are you sure you want to leave with out saving?" for entries?
-Mookie

26

I wrote a few posts and saved them as drafts and now I can't bring them up to publish them/edit them.  It was working fine yesterday.

Whoops!  They should be back now.

Also can we get an auto-save for posts or an idiot-warning like a pop up saying "Are you sure you want to leave with out saving?" for entries?

I'll look into that.

27

The links on my posts are randomly not working.  Originally they all worked, but now some of them have stopped.

Which blog is yours, ShannenChan?  Oh, hang on, found it.  Let me take a look.

28

They didn't stop working at the same time either, originally it was one or two smilies then it just kept spreading.  Is there anything I can do to fix it?

Found it!  You have a :/ smilie, and that is bad news to links in your posts, because it messes up the http://.  I suggest you replace it with :shrug: or something like that.

29 The basic problem is that the smilie parser isn't smart enough not to mess with your BBCode and HTML and your other smilies.  I'll see what I can do about that, but in the meantime, best to avoid common strings like :/.

30 Okay, I've made it a bit smarter.  Now smilies like :/ don't work, but they don't break anything else either.

31 Thank you!!

32 FWIW, I've put up a post about the problems some browsers have with resizing your images (when you use the img tag's width and height attributes), and what to do about it. It's here, and profusely illustrated!

33 Thanks OG.  That's a good post.

All the browsers I know of do a poor job at resizing images; they all use simple nearest-neighbour algorithms for the processing.  The resize function in Minx uses soft anti-aliasing, which produces much better results but takes much more CPU time.

34

"...which produces much better results but takes much more CPU time."

But only has to be done ONCE, so think of all the energy we're saving!
Gee, I'm feeling green already LOL!

35 Yep.

But that's probably why browsers don't do it - on an older PC, the extra time taken to render a page with a large number of resized images could be quite noticeable.

36 BBCode bug in interpreting "{/small}" tag. (Note: Using "{}" to replace square brackets to avoid having to escape everything.)

This screwed the formatting in this comment, and I've now posted a clean example here.

When I check the page source, I see that BBCode is outputting <small> when it sees {/small}. This means font size reduction doesn't clear. (Works correctly if you use {sm}{/sm} tags.)

On my browser (at this moment) the unclosed <small> tag makes it render everything after the broken comment on the help page in small font-- even when the comments are hidden, and including the sidebar. I posted the comment almost a week ago, and since there hasn't been any subsequent screaming I'm assuming that I'm the only one seeing this. I'll have a screenshot added to the test post shortly.

37 Thanks, I'll get that fixed.

38 Fixed.

39 Thankyou!

40 I'm very new to this.  Wondering about the stuff below the "options" link at the bottom when constructing a New Post (or editing an existing post).

I selected "Page" from the dropdown (instead of post) and it seems to have not generated a post, or generated it is such a way that I don't know how to get to it.

Also, what do the dates in that area control?  Are they able to be changed (like the path field), or are they auto-populated and useless to try to change?  I tried changing the "Start Date" and "End Date" fields assuming they controlled the life of the post, but when I reloaded the post they were reset to previous values.

41 Ah, yes.  That's what Pages do.

Pages are what you use when you want to create an entry that doesn't appear in the main flow of your blog, like an "about" page.

The start and end dates don't work just yet, sorry about that.  I should take them out until they do work.

42 Is there a way to access the pages you've created?  They aren't listed in the posts list, and I can't seem find them anywhere else.  I assume once I can get to them I can link them as I would any other page on the internet.

The system seems to be intended for folks that have a bit of experience with creating blogs, so I apologize for the novice questions.

43

Is there a way to access the pages you've created?  They aren't listed in the posts list, and I can't seem find them anywhere else.  I assume once I can get to them I can link them as I would any other page on the internet.

Um.  Oops.  I'll fix that.

The system seems to be intended for folks that have a bit of experience with creating blogs, so I apologize for the novice questions.

Novice questions are great, because there are a lot more novices around than experts, and the questions tell me where I need to do more work on the user interface and documentation.

44 One more, then I'll leave it be for awhile (should get back to work anyway).

Duplicate post names:  If you create multiple posts with the same name, the time/date link in the "Posted by:" message (and external links to the post) will only ever take you to the newest of the posts that share the same name.  I noticed that the "path" field can be used to circumvent this, however, this is less than obvious, especially to novices. 

Perhaps an addition of a numeral to the end of the path for duplicates (the check for duplicates may be processor intensive, especially on large blogs) or an addition of the timecode to the second placed after the name of the post as default path.  (newpost_061507122223)  This would allow for unique post names, but not lose the easy sight recognition by post name.

45 Yes, this is a problem; I'll be changing it to add a counter as you say.  That will be an option, but turned on by default.

46 Hi Pixy!
Still having problems with the post date change option.

What I did:
Had a post that I started on 7/7, but wasn't able to finish, so saved as "Draft." Wrote and published several later posts.
Came back to the draft today, and finished it. Saved text changes as draft, then reopened, changed menu to "publish", clicked options, changed date to today's date and current GMT by editing the existing entry. Clicked elsewhere to get cursor out of the time/date box. Clicked "Save".
Result: post was published, but with the original date, and in the original order, that is below all the subsequent posts. My error?

47 Did you enter the date in YYYY-MM-DD format?

48 Yes. I actually edited the existing entry (to make sure I preserved format and spacing), should I have replaced it?

49 question, I'd like to use Windows Live Writer with this system. which Blogging system is this thing using?

help!

-Chuck

50 I've looked through all the docs and helps and questions and if the answer is there I'm just not clever enough to find it. Is it possible to schedule a post to publish at a later date or time? I tried editing the date and time in the options window but it just posted the entry with the date and time I entered. I tried it with setting the post status to pending but the appointed time came and nothing happened.

51 Trying to post a link in a post, and it's prefaced by my blog address, which renders the link useless. I searched for a bit, but didn't find anything.

Also, can't find information on blogrolls, either.

1 Actually, I'd like documentation on all the tags and each of their properties.  Dunno if anybody else is using them that mutch; I've been changing my layout and using conditionals, so I'm giving them a pretty good workout.

2 Cool.  I need to check on a couple of the conditionals; I think there may be a bug under some conditions.  Thanks for giving them a workout.

I will have the [posts] / [post.tag] documentation up today (my today, which might be your tomorrow), and with any luck also the [comments] / [comment.tag] info.  The only caveat there is that there are lots of fields that you can't get to right now, because the editor screens are lagging behind what the template engine supports.  So you will see some cool features that you won't be able to use. ops:

3 Agh!  My upload failed halfway through and now I lost my post template!  1) can you put the default templates somewhere that we can get to them and 2) can you help me out???

4

1) can you put the default templates somewhere that we can get to them

Done!

2) can you help me out???

And done!  Hope you didn't lose too much work there.

I should really do an automatic backup for template changes.  I'll add that to my to-do list.

5 Don't know whether this is a "file and folder" problem or a "post" problem, but whatever...
go to this post and scroll down to the sample link at the bottom. It's a 27-second MP3, filesize reported at 369kb by Windows.
I've uploaded it twice, and the file directory shows the right size. When I go to download/play it the download progress bar shows the right size, but it gets to about 239k and then jumps to 100%. Windows reports the downloaded file at 240k, and indeed the end is cut off.
FWIW, it was encoded with LAME.

6 Gah.  My MeeLocals template is doing funky things when I edit it, and its killing my links.  If I don't include the href:// in the link, it appends the link to the end of my URL.  If I include the href://, whenever I edit it again it adds another href:// to my URL; it ends up being href://href://blog.mee.nu. 

7 Hang on, it's changing your template?  That shouldn't ever happen.

8 Something freaky is happening when I edit and save the template.  When I get some time later I'll do some tests to see if I can repro it...

9 Thanks!

10 While trying to get those leetle comment icons to appear, I'm seeing the title or alt for the gif, but not the actual image.  Right-click/view image give me a 404:

The path '/icons/folder_Content.gif' was not found.

The path exists, the folders and such are correct (I think), and I've tried modifying the Post template to use both the entire URL (http://...) and just the original version (/icons/folder_...).  No joy either way.

11 RocketJones, you may be having the same problem I am. It may have something to do with case-sensitivity of filenames. Thread starts here.

12 Sounds like it.  Fix for that goes in today.

13 I am absolutely positively a newbie to mee.nu thanks to the gracious invited I received from Ted/Rocket Jones.  I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but here goes.

In the past I've created a blog using Movable Type (see http://dustingmybrain.com) and more recently another using Blogspot, which I despise.  Regardless, I want to duplicate what I did at Blogspot (see http://thefeatheredones.blogspot.com) for my blog here at mee.nu.  Though I noted that an import feature from other blogs will be available in the future, rather than wait for that feature, I want to go ahead and fiddle on my own.  If at all possible, I'd like to see a layout page with the CSS info labeled for each area.  I ask this because I find the CSS templates (MT, Blogspot, etc.) are coded with different names; i.e., some label the post body as 'post' or 'content' or 'blog body' etc.

Having gone through everything here, I am rendered completely and utterly confused and hope I've explained clearly what I'm looking for.  Does such a page exist here?  Thanks in advance for any assistance/help/guidance!

14 Hi Cindy.  No, we don't have such a page yet, but that's an excellent idea and I'll get right on it.

15 Hi and thanks so much!

16 Is there an upper limit to the number of categories that will appear in the sidebar?
Right now I have 11. I added the most recent about 10 days ago, but didn't notice until today that only the first 10 appear in the category list. Checked the folder list: They're all still there, and they're all marked "public," except "Example," which I marked "private" but still appears(!). The one that doesn't show up is the 11th in the folder list: "The Press." It isn't a two-word category name problem, because other categories "Dear Diary" and "In Passing" are still visible. It also doesn't seem to be related to whether posts in a particular category are visible on the first page.
I believe that I'm still using the default category code in the sidebar template. Here 'tis:

<h2>Categories</h2>
<ul>
[categories]
<li><a href="&047;&091#;category.path&093;">#091;category.name&093;</a></li>
&091;&047;categories&091;
</ul>

Thanks and have a good weekend!

17 Trying again, fixing escapes:
<h2>Categories</h2>
<ul>
[categories]
<:li><a href="/[category.path]">[category.name]</a></li>
[/categories[
</ul>(Can you tell I don't do HTML for a living?)

18 There's a display limit, but no fixed limit.

Try this: [categories count=100]  That should prevent the limit kicking in, at least until you have 101 categories.

19 Hiya Pixy,
I'm tinkering with a template and trying to get it set up so only the first post displays the actual text.

Then the next 4 posts will display the excerpt and the last 6 will display the blurb.

I'd started out with a conditional:

[if.eq post.number 1] which I thought would display handle setting up things for the first post. But as we all know I'm a knucklehead and am doing something wrong, 'cause the [if.eq post.number 1] section is being displayed, instead of evaluated.

Help me, Pixy Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.

20 Hmm.  You have to match the [if.eq ...] with a [/if.eq], otherwise it will display it. The same goes for all the [if] variants - you have to have an exact matching [/if], though without the parameters.

Let me know if that helps.

21 Yep, that does it.

I'd forgot to put the .eq on the end of the if statement.
Which is why you're the man and I'm not.

Thanks!

22 I would like to put a sitemeter in and tried with no results.  Any guidance would be appreciated.

1 First post in beta! Thanks for the invite!

Question about creating new categories. Successfully (I think!) created an "administrivia" category using the "edit folder" screen.
Entries were:Type => CategoryName => AdministriviaPath => http://oldgrouch.mee.nu/http//oldgrouch.mee.nu/adminstrivia (copied from "Example," changed the last folderURL Pattern => left blank, since there wasn't anything in the example. What is this?Linked to => okay, I see it's automagically linked me to "Category.Administrivia"What are Tagline and Description? (As you can see, I've never done this before.)
Suggestion: You've got enough room on the page to include some one-sentence explanations of what's supposed to go in the form.
Observation: I'm running 800x600 on this machine (the other one is 1024x76 , and the Type, Name, Path, and URL Pattern textboxes extend off past the right edge of the screen. There's also no horizontal scrollbar. Want a screenshot?

2 Above formatting sucks because I tried an unordered list, and it didn't work. Trying brackets:[ul][li]Entries were:Type => Category[/li][li]Name => Administrivia[/li][li]Path => http://oldgrouch.mee.nu/http//oldgrouch.mee.nu/adminstrivia (copied from "Example," changed the last folder[/li][li]URL Pattern => left blank, since there wasn't anything in the example. What is this?[/li][li]Linked to => okay, I see it's automagically linked me to "Category.Administrivia"[/li][ul]
Also, I see it turned the characters "number 8" followed by "right parenthesis" in the next-to-last sentence into a smiley.

3

I don't think you need to put in the "http...etc." for the path. I think if you just put "adminstrivia" in the path, it will automagically create the path http://oldgrounch/mee.nu/adminstrivia.

At least that's how I created my first category.

4 Will, you're correct. It appears that the only thing the "path" data is used for is constructing links to the category (as in sidebar category listings). If you put the full path in the path box, you wind up with links that include the path twice, i.e., not what you want!

5 Thanks Will!

Yes, that's exactly right.

Old Grouch, I'll be doing some testing at 800x600; we should be able to support that... though you might need to scroll a bit now and then, it should at least work.

Also, I see it turned the characters "number 8" followed by "right parenthesis" in the next-to-last sentence into a smiley.

Yes, it will do that.  That's something you can control for your blog; take a look at smilies.mee.nu for more information.

Also, I have some bbcode documentation available.  Ordered and unordered lists are supported, but the code is a little different to the HTML version; for an unordered list you want something like:

[bullet][item]Item one[/item][item]Item two[/item][/bullet]

6 Found the bbcode docs minutes ago. Very clear, and bookmarked/

Maybe the test for smiley conversion should include a leading blank?

7 Timeout error during upload just now. Here's the cut-n-paste:
Unrecoverable error in the server. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpwsgi.py", line 126, in __init__ response = self.request.run(meth, path, qs, rproto, headers, rfile) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 303, in run raise cherrypy.TimeoutError() TimeoutError ---------------

8

Maybe the test for smiley conversion should include a leading blank?

That's not a bad idea; I'll take a look at that.

Timeout error during upload just now.

Yes, I've had another user report this to me as well.  It does appear to save your file successfully, but it gives you the error anyway.  I think I have a fix for this; I'm looking into it.

9 Have been trying to implement category icons.

Created a directory called "icons": Type=Directory, Name=icons, Path=icons, Index Template=List.file, Page Template=Edit.file.
First problem: The "Link To" selector is stuck on "Directory.images (/images)". There is a "Directory.icons (/icons)" choice in the selector, but although I can change to it, the change won't save.

One of my categories is named "Beta" (upper case "B"). I loaded a *.gif named "folder_beta.gif" into the icons folder, then uncommented the code in the Post template. Couldn't get the image to show, so I hard-coded the URL. Page source shows the right address, but the image still won't load.

Secondary question: Are filenames case-sensitive? [post.category]="Beta"; name change routine on file's page won't let me change "folder_beta.gif" to "folder_Beta.gif".

10

The "Link To" selector is stuck on "Directory.images (/images)". There is a "Directory.icons (/icons)" choice in the selector, but although I can change to it, the change won't save.

Hmm.  Try setting it to Not Linked, and see if that helps.  I'll have to check on that.

Are filenames case-sensitive? [post.category]="Beta"; name change routine on file's page won't let me change "folder_beta.gif" to "folder_Beta.gif".

Yeah, that's a problem.  File names are case-sensitive, but they're forced to lower-case on the server.  I've added a fix for that to tomorrow's update (April 15th).

11 Erm.  Slight problem with that fix; it gets confused if you have two files with names differing only in the case of certain letters.  Working on that bit.

12 Okay, got a fix for that too.

13 "Try setting it to Not Linked, and see if that helps."
Thanks! That did it, it came back automatically linked correctly. I'll futz around with the filename problem after Sunday's update. Finishing taxe$ today.

14 Latest episode of the continuing filename/category name problem:

First, the update fixed the capitalization problem. I still wasn't able to rename the old one, but I was able to upload a new copy of the icon named "folder_Beta.gif" and have the uppercase "B" stick. So my "Beta" icons are now visible. Hurrah!

New problem: I have two categories that are multi-word: "Dear Diary" and "In Passing". But if I try to upload a file with a blank in the name, the blank gets stripped out. So: "folder_Dear Diary.gif" becomes "folder_DearDiary.gif". But this won't match [post.category], which will be "Dear Diary". Any suggestions?

15

First, the update fixed the capitalization problem. I still wasn't able to rename the old one, but I was able to upload a new copy of the icon named "folder_Beta.gif" and have the uppercase "B" stick. So my "Beta" icons are now visible. Hurrah!

I tested copying and uploading but not renmaing. I'll get that fixed.

New problem: I have two categories that are multi-word: "Dear Diary" and "In Passing". But if I try to upload a file with a blank in the name, the blank gets stripped out. So: "folder_Dear Diary.gif" becomes "folder_DearDiary.gif". But this won't match [post.category], which will be "Dear Diary". Any suggestions?

Wups.

You can't have filenames with spaces, and that probably won't get changed.  What I can do pretty easily is give you a [post.category.nospace] tag, which is just the category name with the spaces stripped out.

16 Okay, that will be in today's update.

17 Man, talk about service! Do you ever sleep?

18 No, but I've heard of it.

That update is in place now, so give it a whirl.

19 Can't get it to work.
Tried renaming "folder_DearDiary.gif" to "folder_deardiary.gif", didn't take.
Then changed template code from "img src="/icons/folder_[post.category].gif" to "img src="/icons/folder_[post.category.nospace].gif". Category icons disappeared, and when I ask the browser to copy the icon url I get "http://oldgrouch.mee.nu/icons/folder_%5Bpost.category.nospace%5D.gif" (except with the brackets not escaped).
Sorry!

20 Darn.  That means it's not recognising [post.category.nospace] as a tag.  I'll take another look at that.

21

I've got a new issue. I'm trying out a Perl package that will upload a google map track of my running log. (http://dave.runningland.com/grunninglogs/)

But the script needs to ftp the data to the server, and I can't get it to work. My username and password are getting refused by the server. It's not just the script; trying to manually ftp to boviate.mee.nu won't let me log in either.

Of  course, it may just be that you don't want any stinkin' ftp access to the server, which is probably a reasonable security decision. I tried searching the help, and didn't find anything about ftp one way or another. So what I'm asking is, am I screwing up the ftp access somewhere such that I need to fiddle with it, or should I come to grips with ftp being not allowed and look for a different toy to play with?

22 FTP isn't allowed right now.  I'm looking at integrating an FTP server into the software, but that's at least a couple of months away.  Sorry!

23 Hey, no worries, means I can quit worrying about learning Perl just to debug someone's else script :-).

24 I'm missing something:

I've got categories.

I've applied the said categories to posts.

I have no categories in the sidebar or on the posts.

What am I doing wrong?

(sorry....computer neophyte alert)

25 Hi Brickmuppet!

Rocket Jones has two category hotwo posts up:
Part 1
Part 2

The second part covers how to get categories in the sidebar (requires a template change in the SIDEBAR template).
If you want category icons, you have to uncomment some code in the POST template (it's marked), and create a directory (and some icons). I can't find the howto right now, but this post and some of the ones following outline the procedure. (Ignore most of the problems... they've been fixed.) Any more questions?

26 Okay, just noticed that the default POST template doesn't include the category. Here's the change I made to make the bottom line read "Posted by: Old Grouch in SomeCategory at SomeDayAndTime..."

Open the EDIT->TEMPLATES->ITEM: POST template. Scroll down to find the line Posted by: [post.authorlink] in Add this code after that line (leave a space after the word "in ": [post.category] There should also be a space between the closing "span" tag and the word "at", which should already be there. To see how this looks and works, check my blog.

27 Help Pixy... the editor's parsing code samples!

<Donald Duck>Hmmm... Parsing trouble-- Let's try that once more, nicely escaped!<Donald Duck>
Open the EDIT->TEMPLATES->ITEM: POST template. Scroll down to find the line
Posted by: [post.authorlink] in
Add this code after that line (leave a space after the word "in ":
<-- "span" tags make the category name bold -->
<span style="font-weight: bold"&lgt
<!-- "a" tag makes the category name clickable -->
<a href="/[post.category format=nospace]">
[post.category]
</a>
</span>
There should also be a space between the closing "span" tag and the word "at", which should already be there. To see how this looks and works, check my blog.
Hope it works this time!

28 Ouch... no preview. In the second line of the code, replace "&lgt" at the end with a ">" (to close the tag).
There should also be a closing parenthesis in the "Add this code..." line, but who cares. Sorry!

29 And, this time, the "small" BBCode tag appears to have escaped...

30 Re: BBCode. It appears the "/small" tag doesn't work. ("/sm" does).

1 I can't write in the text area for posting when I'm using Safari.

2 Hmm.  Safari should present a plain text box for you; does that not work at all?

3 same here. It presents the plain text box but when I click in that area the cursor simply doesn't show up.

4

Hey, I've been having problems with the new Ace of Spades site. I use Firefox, and it was continually crashing the browser, both release 3 and release 2. It seemed better under IE, and I'm now running Firefox 3 using IE Tab for Ace's site and it seems stable, but I keep seeing encoding problems. Right now the articles like "Columbia Professor in “Noose” Case ..." show up with little square blocks in place of double quotes. I've tried different encoding options to no avail. The same article on the old site doesn't have these problems.

 

5 Let me add "me too" on the above.  Newest Firefox, old site ok..

Catman

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*attempt 2*

I haven't had a chance to try again (at work,gonna get fired ;-) ), but when I tried to use the WYSIWYG editor in the "More:" section to try one if the ol' "image below the jump" tricks, it just sat there like a lump. When that didn't work, I used the image insertion tool in the "Text:" section. It worked, but it pasted the image in the "More:" section. I don't think it was anything retarded on my part, but you never know.

2 Okay, I've found the comment problem and fixed it, which will be a relief for everyone.

It was, in fact, saving your comments.  It was even saving them somewhere vaguely sensible.  Just not anywhere you can actually see them again.

The trick was, it only happened when you were posting a comment inside a category page or a subforum or something like that.  The reason why this happened is a little complicated, but once I realised what was going on it was very easy to fix.

Now!

As for your editor problem - I'll take a look at that.  I have seen the More editor behave a little oddly like that, but not for a while.  I've certainly posted images to it.

I have an updated version of the editor with some bug fixes; possibly that will help.

3

Is there some simple way to us the insert image tool to display images that are uploaded/saved into our images folder without having to remember the path/filname or first copy the shortcut to the clipboard? I know you've been mentioning drag-and-drop capability over the last couple weeks. Is that a function of the editor?

4 How do you we go about adding websites to the blogroll?  I cant seem to access that feature.

5

Is there some simple way to us the insert image tool to display images that are uploaded/saved into our images folder without having to remember the path/filname or first copy the shortcut to the clipboard?

Yes!  If you open the file manager in a new window (I'm working on making a nice compact version of it to use just that way) you can drag and drop images right into the editor.  It actually copies the sizing and attributes like borders as well, so view the full size image when you do this.

6

How do you we go about adding websites to the blogroll?  I cant seem to access that feature.

There's no special blogroll editor yet; you just put the links into the Blogroll template.  Once I have a proper blogroll system, you'll be able to import those links, so nothing will be wasted.

7 Does the editor change non-breaking spaces into just plain spaces or did I screw up on saving twice?
My most recent post includes a part number that contains imbedded spaces but shouldn't be split over two lines. I opened the <> html screen and inserted the &-n-b-s-p-; (fuzzed so it doesn't get eaten) strings in the right spots, clicked "apply" then "ok", then "save" on the main screen. But the number still gets broken and the nonbreaks are regular spaces when I look at the page source.
Tried it again and the same thing happened. Don't BELIEVE I made the same error twice, but you never know...

8 Back after H*ll Week, and wow, you've redecorated! :-)
Since post editor update, I can't get into the "more" section. Clicking the "More" link draws the editing window on the page, but I can't get the cursor there. (Clicking in the edit area does nothing.) I have java disabled (machine I'm on now doesn't even have a JVM), if that's relevant.

9

Does the editor change non-breaking spaces into just plain spaces or did I screw up on saving twice?

Hmm.  I didn't think it did, but I haven't tested it myself.

Since post editor update, I can't get into the "more" section.

A number of people are having this problem, so I'll change the default setting to make it easier.

10 Okay tried the editor again and yes it does turn non-breaking spaces into regular spaces. It also eats them if there's no adjacent printable character.

This one is probably a "working as designed" item, but it's interesting: If the post title is a "String within Quotations" (like this) it will accept the title for publication *but* if you try to subsequently edit the post, the title will disappear and have to be re-entered.

11 Hmm.  That's not working as designed, it's a bug in a corner case.  I'll certainly fix it.

12 Is there a way to reduce the width of the sidebars (widen the text field?)

13 On the edit page?  Yes, though it's slightly tricky.

The edit page uses your custom CSS if you have such, so if you change it to make your page wider, it will take effect there as well.

14

I've gotten almost everything working! Mee.Nuvia is great!

 

A few questions...

How do I get the "tagline" or description to show in the various categories?

How does one insert the "forum" feature into the template?

Is there anyway to have the forum sort topics by category?

What does "url pattern" do in the files/ folders? Part of my problem was staring at that field wondering what to put in it....it works fine empty. What hidden wonders does it conceal?

"private, system, hidden, cache" what are these bright shiney candy-like buttons that tempt me so?

(Sorry about being a total weeaboo. )

 

15 Sorry about the delay answering your questions, Brickmuppet!

Here goes:

How do I get the "tagline" or description to show in the various categories?

[category.tagline] and [category.desc] are what you want.

How does one insert the "forum" feature into the template?

That's a little tricky; I'll be upgrading the forum system this week and I'll post more info then.

Is there anyway to have the forum sort topics by category?

Not sort by category, but you can break it into sub-formums by category.

What does "url pattern" do in the files/ folders?

Um.  Right now - nothing!  Sorry about that.

"private, system, hidden, cache" what are these bright shiney candy-like buttons that tempt me so?

The important ones are private and cache.  Setting a folder as private means that only you can access it.  setting the cache flag allows the system to cache pages, which makes it faster for busy sites.  You only want to turn caching off in special cases, such as dynamically-generated CSS, where you need to change things depending on (say) what web browser is being used.

16 Hi, more post editor anomalies!

If you create a string of links that are individual words (looks like: link1 link2 link3) AND you open the source editor for some reason, it automagically removes the spaces between the links (looks like link1link2link3). Workaround: Add a printable character to the space between the links, then remove it just before posting.

The character-which-is-SHIFT+7 does wonky things when used in the title attribute of a link. (Example: "AT&T"). Escaping the character in the source editor doesn't work, the escape gets replaced with the plain character when you "apply".

17 In 2nd para above, should have read: "removes spaces between the links when you 'apply'".

18

If you create a string of links that are individual words (looks like: link1 link2 link3) AND you open the source editor for some reason, it automagically removes the spaces between the links (looks like link1link2link3). Workaround: Add a printable character to the space between the links, then remove it just before posting.

Ick.  Okay, I'll log that, but I don't know when it will be fixed...

The character-which-is-SHIFT+7 does wonky things when used in the title attribute of a link. (Example: "AT&T"). Escaping the character in the source editor doesn't work, the escape gets replaced with the plain character when you "apply".

This one, however, I can fix right away... Done!

19 Hey, when I added html face, color, size, and marquee bgcolor tags it really messed up my page. I was more just experimenting with what it would let me do, but I can't put it back now. samw.mee.nu. I can't get back to edit page to erase it all.

20 That's... odd.  I can see the problem, but I can't see why it's happening.  Hang on while I dig around a bit.

21 Oh, I see the problem.  Hang on...  Fixed.

Careful with those tags!

We'll be changing the edit screen so you can't break it like that, but I hadn't actually considered breaking it that way.

22 Is it possible to use an offline blog posting software like Qumana?  If so what is the end point.  Thought I had it but no luck.

23 Ah, sorry, no.  It's planned but had dropped of the radar.

It shouldn't be too hard to add, so I'll take another look at it this weekend.