TODO ∞

Correct caption colours underneath images. [[image:filename|caption here]]
- TODO - create a test.
How could I remove the link to wordpress.org within the Meta widget?

Darken the code boxes ∞

Purple is hard to read.

Is this still a valid issue? Provide a test example.

Issues ∞

I can't figure out how to post an html snippet. It gets mangled.
Doesn't automatically make text links into clickable links.
Sometimes very very fucking slow.
Why can't blog.spiralofhope.com/about-2 be blog.spiralofhope.com/about ?

General philosophies ∞

I don't use categories. This is a bad idea.

on tags ∞

I use tags sparingly. These are meant to directly group posts together, and not to provide keywords for searching. If keywords are needed, then I'll fucking well add those words in the body of the text.. and that will become searchable.
When opening a new project, search the blog for topics related to it, and then edit them to include the new tag. Don't do the reverse: create tags ahead of time expecting to make a project later.

Multiple-word tags are separated by a hyphen:

https://blog.spiralofhope.com/tag/five-things

Tags can be combined to refine searches, such as:

https://blog.spiralofhope.com/tag/software
and
https://blog.spiralofhope.com/tag/freedom
becoming:
https://blog.spiralofhope.com/tag/software+freedom

Twitter feed ∞

2012-08-27 - It would be nice to have a list of my recent tweets, but Twitter is busted. It's resulting text box to copy-paste the code is blank. Firefox 15.0beta, safe mode. Used twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_profile

The workaround is to use it directly in the RSS widget.

Use the title   to dodge idiotic styling issues.
Use the URL api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=spiralofhope
Edit style.css to make it less loud.

a.rsswidget {
        display:block;
        font-size:12px !important;
        font-weight: normal !important;
}

I'd like to be able to skip step 1 and make the title appear as I like. As it is, there's a big blank spot there. Sigh.

Incidentally, the Twitter favourites RSS would be: twitter.com/favorites/spiralofhope.rss

Embedding YouTube videos doesn't work ∞

(to be re-tested)

According to the embeds documentation, I can simply paste a link to a youtube video. Unfortunately this does not work.

It is enabled in Media Settings.

The workaround is to explicitly use the embed tag.

https youtube URLs don't work. =/

This may all be an issue with BlogText.

Quickly uploading media ∞

The next best thing to multi-file uploading:

Visit https://blog.spiralofhope.com/wp-admin/media-new.php
(have the browser uploader enabled)
Click browse
Select the media with your web browser file selector
Click upload
Notice when the page is trying to refresh - tested on Firefox 16.0, you can see the loading swirl change from grey to orange. Press escape
Repeat from step three. With Firefox it will remember the file I selected, and so I can trivially select the next file in that list.

Other configuration notes ∞

I used the categories-to-tags convertor, which thankfully still works although it's very out of date. I won't use categories any longer. What's the point?

Misc. Notes ∞

Pagination: 
https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds
Create an excerpt by creating a regular post, and somewhere add  so everything before becomes an excerpt. A link to the full post will be automatically generated.

some old script ∞

I can't remember what this was for..

website='https://blog.spiralofhope.com'
\cd  ~/blog.spiralofhope.com

~/wp  option  update home    "$website"
~/wp  option  update siteurl "$website"

spiralofhope

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