THIS RLY BE DAVE

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