Wipe Your Feet
As you can see, we have new digs. Told you I was busy.
Work is still ongoing and, inevitably, there will be things to tidy or hammer into shape. Or at least cover with a rug. If you spot anything scandalously up-buggered, do let me know. I’ll add it to the enormous list.
While I faff and tinker, and grumble about plug-ins, by all means pass the time by poking through the Reheated series.
Do make yourselves at home. And oh yes, open thread.
[ Straightens cushions, checks breath. ]
Ah, but can we still trample other comments with unclosed style tags? Or is that cleaned up now?
I salvaged this from the old place.
Just in case.
unclosed style tags
unclosed bold tag
So it seems that the comments in wordpress (WP hereafter) don’t leave the hanging tags unclosed….
This was posted with bold and italic tags, both of which were left unclosed.
Oh happy day.
So hopefully this following comment will be neither bold nor italic. 🙂
There is comment frequency throttling…If you try to post sequentially, you may get the You are posting too quickly. Slow down message
David: There is a problem with comments: It seems that not all comments have been migrated to the new site. The “It Was a Time of Howls and Tin Rattling” post has 263 comments on the old site, but only 59 on the new site.
It’s not a fault. The contents of the blog were migrated several days ago. You heathens just kept banging on after the migration. You seemed to be having fun, so I didn’t interfere.
A suggestion: Disable commenting on the old site. (Presumably new comments there will not get migrated.)
supported style tags:
i
b
em and strong (emphasis and stronger emphasis), and can result in some other differentiation; in practice they almost invariably translate to italics and bold.
a href
blockquote or cite or q
del or strike
pre – If you copy-paste some text from a text editor, enclosing it this way will preserve multiple spaces and line breaks.
*brings cake*
So – trying the “pre” tag…
Trying the “q” quote tag…
Let’s see what difference that makes from the pre tag.
[ Rummages for cream, napkins. ]
It’s not a fault. The contents of the blog were migrated several days ago. You heathens just kept banging on after the migration. You seemed to be having fun, so I didn’t interfere.
[ Collapses into chair. ]
Yes, the ‘pre’ tags are preferable to putting quoted comments in italics. #PersonalGrowth
Another suggestion: Change those button labels from “Next Post” and “Previous Post” to “Earlier Post” and “Later Post”. Or something. It’s disconcerting for “Next Post” to take us back in time.
For comments that quote an earlier comment, this, above, seems to be the way to go. Though you may need to log in to WordPress to enable them.
The old blog’s comments are now closed. And left as damning evidence.
The old blog’s comments are now closed. And left as damning evidence.
[ Gazes smugly in the mirror. ]
No more Preview button?
I suppose the locks on the liquor cabinets have been changed, too.
The new look will take some getting used to. It just feels weird. Really weird.
[ A cruel smile. ]
You should try sitting where I am, matey.
Did anybody remember to bring the jar of pickled eggs from the old place?
Fear not.
The new look will take some getting used to. It just feels weird. Really weird.
Yeah, it looks like it’s been optimized for fondle-screen technology
The new look will take some getting used to. It just feels weird. Really weird.
Huh, the pre tag didn’t seem to work for me.
Let’s see if the italics and bold tags are working
They do require the HTML-style greater/less than signs, not the square brackets, right?
Yes. Try to use the ‘pre’ tags for quoting comments.
Perhaps a favicon would distinguish the site in my row of 37 tabs.
Also, as PST notes, no Preview?
Also also, since there seems to be no “parent” website anymore, how do the avatars work?
Try Gravitar. Fairly quick and painless.
Yes. Try to use the ‘pre’ tags for quoting comments.
That’s what I’ve been doing.
There also seems to be an issue with multiple carriage returns. (I have that issue with composing posts on my blog, and have to manually use the p tag for paragraph breaks, and the br tag for non-indented lists.
The above post had a pre tag in the first paragraph, and two carriage breaks between each paragraph, none of which came out. This time, I’ll try using a p tag for the next paragraph
I’m on Firefox on Linux, for what that’s worth.
I give up for now.
[slides jar of pickled eggs back towards David, while waiting for his comment of “No refunds; credit note only.”]
Congratulations! I’ve always abbreviated reference to this site as “Thompson Blog”. Didn’t realise I was using the official name.
Looking forward to further commentary on the degradation of society (once the HTML queries subside).
Glad to see the new blog. I was worried that Typepad would discover what was going on here and quash it.
So we’re here now? I need to pee…
Fear not
Curious looking eggs
I tried to post and when I pressed enter it went back to the first post and my post has not appeared.
The title is also a reminder to me of what I’m supposed to do. An instruction. Thompson, blog.
Is there an RSS feed for this fine new establishment?
Typepad never expressed an opinion on the content, which is one of the reasons I stayed there so long. But then I’ve never thought of what goes on here as particularly controversial, except, perhaps, among the pretentious and unhinged.
Yes, see very bottom of page, under ‘meta’. Just add slash feed to the URL.
Someone watch him. We don’t want a repeat of… well, last time.
“You heathens”
Awww. Can you feel the love?
Someone watch him. We don’t want a repeat of… well, last time.
Just because you never put signs on the doors…anyway, speaking of women…this woman cop in Florida, in the county just north of Gainesville, harasses and arrests a partly blind man because she thinks his cane is some kind of gun. I’m tempted to say the video must be seen to be believed, but then again…
Awww. Can you feel the love?
The admonishment, in the masthead! to “play nicely, use coasters” is a microaggression.
So my experiment above with blockquote, italics, and hyperlinks was 2/3 successful. 66%. That’s a passing ‘D’, yes?
“The ‘Frogger’ reboot is just strange.”
“Strange? Looks pretty orthodox to me.”
Looks fancy. 🙂
*eats cake*
Well, web design isn’t my area, so it’s been an… interesting week.
There may have been some shouting and one or two vases may have been shattered.
[ Orders box of fragile vases. ]
Very nice and very wise.
Typepad was a cosy cul-de-sac of blogging, but there’s been no significant development there for years. I don’t think they’re even accepting new customers, which speaks volumes. And the downtime in October – six days – and the bizarrely inadequate response to it, largely via Twitter – was just farcical. At one point, I had 14 Help Tickets for errors open simultaneously. There’s still been no apology and I’m not even sure some of the people there realise just how much goodwill they burned through in one week.
Try Gravitar. Fairly quick and painless.
Yeah, no, another “sign up so we can track your every move” mess. Besides, it was more fun to muck with changing the colors on the old site.
Try to use the ‘pre’ tags for quoting comments.
Trying to follow the rules at the new joint. One thing I have noticed is that only David’s quoted comments show up in the new ‘pre’ style. None of the other commenter’s quotes show up that way, and since they aren’t using italics now, there is no differentiation on my screen between a quoted comment and a reply to that comment. I’m going on deja vous to know what I just read was a quote. Using (old) Firefox on Windows 7 on my old laptop, if that makes any difference.
In which case, go with whatever works. Better that the quotes are differentiated than not.
Odd, my comment never showed up. Maybe if I let it save my info in the browser it will post the comment.
In which case, go with whatever works.
Testing the italics.
And I apologize – I see my comment and a reply. I need more coffee, I think.
Typepad was a cosy cul-de-sac of blogging, but there’s been no significant development there for years. I don’t think they’re even accepting new customers, which speaks volumes.
Wikipedia confirms: “Typepad is no longer accepting new signups. Instead the company refers new users to Bluehost, another web hosting company owned by Endurance International Group.”
And hence only bare-minimum support for Typepad customers.
One thing I have noticed is that only David’s quoted comments show up in the new ‘pre’ style. None of the other commenter’s quotes show up that way, and since they aren’t using italics now, there is no differentiation on my screen between a quoted comment and a reply to that comment.
And there is no Preview button to see how it will display. 🙁
Let’s see what happens if I use italics with the “pre” style….
Interesting – now the new blog comments stop at David’s mention of web design and vase-shattering, no matter which browser I use (Brave, Waterfox, Firefox). Maybe WordPress doesn’t update immediately? I know there were more comments!
I did notice upthread that commenter Chris Allen managed to get the ‘pre’ tag working – how did you do it??
Carriage returns don’t show up in the posted comment, so I guess I need to find the html tag for that too, so I don’t post a wall of text.
Time to step away from the blog for a bit, let things settle out. Get more coffee, maybe bake that chocolate cake I’ve been meaning to make. I’ll bring some here if it turns out well, although even if it doesn’t, it can’t be worse than those pickled “eggs”…
Well for the record, I’m just happy to be here.
This will take a bit of getting used to.
Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.
You should try sitting where I am, matey.
Heh, I can imagine.
Is there a delay in posting? Can’t see my comment.
For the ‘pre’ tags to work, as mentioned upthread, you may need to log in to WordPress.
Congratulations!
And regarding comp!aunts from the heathens, here’s how to organize them:
Priority 5 (lowest) – anything filed by wtp, pst, ccsci, nemo, me, etc. etc. Those bums have to hang here, no other place will have us.
Priority 4: fires in the alley (yes there’s still an alley. This is a class joint) No worries, street is fireproof.
Priority 3: gripes about bar snacks and food. Workaround is available; Patrons bring their own. (There’s a small corkage fee)
Priority 2: mistreatment by henchlesbians: this is a feature, dude, not a bug. Rejected. Next time: rejected with extreme prejudice.
Priority 1: complaints about content. “No refunds. Credit note only.” ( which I was expecting to see in the header, frankly. SMH in sorrow.)
This scheme will save David countless hours.
OooOooo (admires new place, checks out the newly restuffed barstools) swanky!
Going make good use of your Amazon portal when Christmas shopping next week to replenish your swankiness fund.
Well, web design isn’t my area…
Well, I love what you’ve done to the place. Who’s your decorator?
No Preview button. Let’s see how this displays without resizing:
Doesn’t display at all. Another bug, David.
Er, don’t go inflicting wear on the upholstery. Keep your buttocks very still.
Bless you, madam. May you see trees from your workplace window.
During the move, I rediscovered this. How to pronounce Betelgeuse.
During the move, I rediscovered this. How to pronounce Betelgeuse.
And scrolling down the comments, I found this:
And I’m not sure why Picard’s Romulan housekeeper, an alien from Romulus, has a fairly heavy Oirish accent. (At times, she seems inches away from saying, “Top ‘o the morning’, admiral.”)
Reminiscent of recent complaints about Hobbits in The Rings of Power.
Let’s see what happens with a thumbnail-sized image:
No, even very small images do not post. [ Looks significantly at David. ]
I have a real aversion to word walls.
.
Will the proprietor mind if I do this?
anything filed by wtp, pst, ccsci, nemo, me, etc. etc. Those bums have to hang here, no other place will have us.
What’s that smell? It’s the new upholstery, right?
Right?
On an iPad in portrait the “Continue reading” overwrites the “Reading time” and “Written by” fields, making them all unreadable; in landscape it’s fine
On an iPad in portrait the “Continue reading” overwrites the “Reading time” and “Written by” fields, making them all unreadable; in landscape it’s fine
I previously saw the same thing a while ago but it’s gone now. And thus this excuse to use the ‘pre’ tag…
For the ‘pre’ tags to work, as mentioned upthread, you may need to log in to WordPress.
AHA! As a Philistine who avoids logging in to things where at all possible, that explains why I can’t get the new formatting to work.
Trying the some html code to create a blank line…we’ll see how that works. Think I saw someone upthread mention the p tag.
The move to the new blog happened just in time – Typepad has borked the closed, multi-page comment threads. Only the first 101 show up now, at the Typepad site. But I checked over here, and the comments are there, which makes me happy. Will the blogroll be showing up here sometime? I used to hit some of those links after checking this blog – there was a nice assortment of reading to be found.
I have a real aversion to walls of sound.
If we have to log in to WordPress to get pre and some of the other tags to work, how do we do that? I don’t see a link here, and I don’t know if I have an account with WordPress anyway.
And given a choice, I wouldn’t want to have to log in to WordPress.
“If we have to log in to WordPress to get pre and some of the other tags to work, how do we do that?”
You must be logged into something as you have an avatar appearing.
That’s probably gravatar. That avatar is also several years old. I think August of 2016 although it may be August 2017.
The background is Echo Lake, although I stayed on traditional trails.
Now let’s see if links work. 🙂
If we have to log in to WordPress to get pre and some of the other tags to work, how do we do that?
Ted – if you scroll down past the comment box to the black bar underneath, it says Meta on the left, and under it some links, one of which is Register and under that Log in.
David said it was ok to use italics if the “pre” formatting doesn’t work (because we can’t or haven’t logged in), just so there is some differentiation between quoted text and reply. So far I have gotten the i, b, and p tags to work, and use the with the p tag to make a blank line, as an un-logged-in commenter. WTP had a hyperlink in one of his comments, so I think the a href tag works the same here, also. But pst has had trouble inserting a picture, while David posted the pickled eggs just fine, so that one may also be related to whether you are logged in or not.
Lovely work, David.
Here’s to another sixteen years.
if you scroll down past the comment box to the black bar underneath, it says Meta on the left, and under it some links, one of which is Register and under that Log in.
Testing the pre function with a logged in account.
Didn’t work. But the comment did post immediately this time.
I’m not convinced the RSS feed works correctly but I will not raise any alarm until I am sure the does NOT work correctly.
The new site does render quite quickly, which is a pleasant thing.
Sigh.
“I’m not convinced the RSS feed works correctly but I will not raise any alarm until I am sure the does NOT work correctly.” should have been…
“I’m not convinced the RSS feed works correctly but I will not raise any alarm until I am sure the RSS feed does NOT work correctly.”
Some type of preview would be nice.
Morning.
Working on it, but remember, this is all new to me too. Preview should be a basic option but I don’t see anything in the settings. Maybe there’s a plug-in I need to install. I’m currently using the forums and consulting the WordPress hivemind. We’ll see if anyone can shed light.
When I have time. Though I was never sure that it got much use.
italics if the “pre” formatting doesn’t work
italics if the “pre” formatting doesn’t work (blockquote}
italics if the “pre” formatting doesn’t work (strong)
italics if the “pre” formatting doesn’t work (em)
Testing, obvs.