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…