THIS RLY BE DAVE

!DOES NOT WORK WITH LATEST WORD PRESS UPDATES!

I’ve found a plugin which seems to do everything I would want from an “lj-cut” plugin and much, much more.

It’s called Hide or Cute Post Text. I’m going to quote extensively from the plugin page — prepare to drool.

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This episode felt a lot more like the beginning of a three-parter than the wait for the two-part finale. How great is that?

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In short, um, there was a Doctor? Around all those supporting characters? YOU DON’T SAY!

note: anon allowed

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Basically, the plugin just does not work, even though I reuploaded my whole site for it. I am back to theme of workingness and wondering if I should just try to ignore the paged commentness for a while. I am thinking of remaking the whole theme from scratch, anyway, for some customization without worrying over what code I’ll screw up. If you know your code from the ground up, you are able to do more things with it.

Gallery
I might actually use this if I ever find a stable screen cap program. It’d be fun!

BBpress
This would be fantastic to use for the family if they weren’t all already on MyFamily.com.

MediaWiki
Sudden thought — could be used as a genealogy site. No, really, imagine. Everything anybody knows about a member of the family. And resources all listed there at the bottom.

jonathanworld.com
The best one from a once-over. Start by coding a page entirely in CSS+HTML, then begin your theme from there. It looks fantastic, and I’ll probably use it one of these days.

wordpress.org
Wordpress pages are always very good for the beginning and final say on their software.

anenkostudios.com
Looks like a good complement to the others.

Gravatar (avatars)
Gravatar + LJ userpics (different)
Everybody wants what LJ has — userpics with posts! I think there’s a variation that allows commenters to have a userpic as well. Question: would that be a version of the favicon (must. install. my own) plugin?

paged + threaded comment
Probably going to delete Brian’s Threaded Comments & use this supplementary version of that.

subscribe to comments
+ stats
Like thumbtacking threads on LJ. Awesome.

livejournal crossposter
Necessary, but ultimately it should be a complementary tool that’s almost unneeded.

lj user
Plugin instead of a hack for lj users. Doesn’t support LJ-cuts, which the hack does.

SEO Title Tags
Because Wordpress uses the post title as the title tags.

Clipmarks (Firefox plugin)
AWESOME! Found on AutismVox, and I must say that I WANT! Haven’t installed the plugin yet, so I don’t know how great it’ll work, but I can see how reccing fics or discussing posts would benefit greatly from this plugin.

spoiler tags like TWoP
If a spoiler’s too small for an LJ cut. Besides, I like the highlight feature.

post ’series’ maker
good for ep reviews?
Also good for fic. And back & forth discussions. Can it be used in “response” posts?

anonymous comments
on specific posts & pages
for the inevitable memes that could pop up — but will it read IP addresses still?

comments preview
Something that annoyed me in LJ was the extra click to preview.

excerpt editor
will be used in RSS feeds/can be automatic or not.

I forgot to test commenting after I added each plugin. *headdesk*

eta - It definitely has something to do with Brian’s Threaded Comments, something that I thought I’d fixed forever and a day ago. Gonna go through line by line after work today comparing the red-train and briansthreadedcomments comments.php pages. The comments post, you’re just taken to an error page.

Not sure if comment e-mail responder works, either.

Also not working: blogroll.

eta - just added a post to Brian’s support section at his forum. Hopefully somebody there will be able to tell me how stupid I am. *crosses fingers*

So either I’m just unlucky, my host doesn’t like what I’m trying to do, or I’ve installed something somewhere incorrectly.

Primarily annoying, I can’t get either the my-hacks.php page (which I had to ‘write’ myself - lots of cnp and lots of checking lines for such a small bit of php) or the wp-ljtags.php page to work. I’m not sure which one of the two has faulty coding, or if my server (godaddy) is evil, but it’s no fun.

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(eta - if I edit the header out of index and put it in header, would it help?) (eta2 - wordpress doesn’t run PHP if its in a static page or post - there’s a plugin for that) (eta3 - YAY! sociable is working!)

In great news, the Gregarius install worked beautifully. I’m waiting to mess around for plugins for that, but I’m hoping there’ll be a feature for lj-cuts so that I will not be SPOILERED if I read those things.

Fancy enough, because I have “two” feeds there — pw protected and unflocked flist — it’ll know if I’ve read one and automatically knock the other. No multiple reads for me! I worry about people who read without logging in — will I knock new feeds off for them if I read it first?

Haven’t yet installed the plug-in that automatically updates the page, woe, but I got sidetracked by working more on Wordpress.

So I’ve messed around with Wordpress some more — edited my layout. I, like smuffster, used the Red-Train layout as a base — I wanted to use Dixie Belle, but it kept giving me a script error; if I can get it figured out, I’ll use it for the fiction version.I had a hell of a time — well, twenty minutes — trying to use permalinks. I found out that economy hosting at Godaddy doesn’t allow for mod_rewrite (it’s a hacker issue?). Luckily, I found out that you can simply insert a 404.php page in your current theme’s file that is a mirror of the index.php page. Setting up GoDaddy, WordPress, permalinks and mod_rewrite

Hmm. Should probably update my 404.php page, as I’ve changed the index considerably.

I’m currently playing around with Gregarius, an RSS feed aggregator that, after setting up Wordpress, was simple to install. I found this guide helpful to getting me through the first part. I then used the LJ to OPML generator to generate a private flist for myself. I stumbled making a “public” friends list that I could share on the page (not sure if that’s possible, even! still uploading), but then I realized that taking “auth=digest” allowed me to add the feeds without my username & password, meaning no flocked entries.

I’m still waiting to see if that’ll work.

After this, I’m probably going to settle down for a few hours — I’ve been doing this for three? Yikes. Then I’ll play around with adding a tag system. Tagging is more informal than the WP filing system that they’ve got set up, and I figure I can use the two in different ways. Let’s see.

dorky-do list:
cross posting to lj plugin
check gregarius
personalize index
lj-cut & lj user (can I edit it for “blog user”? I’d have to make my own icon, prolly: with non-central urls, it would have to just be a code to bold & icon it )
userpics
FIX openid (so. not. working)

Fantabulously helpful transition pages:
Smuffster’s Livejournal to Wordpress
noljads’s wiki: LJ to Wordpress