Playing with Plug-ins

That’s it, playing with plugins.  Hoping to get better picture loading and better formatting for comments, and the ability to preview and edit them too.  And want youtubes to open in a new tab.  But it is just me, my fabulous mac, and wordpress … so many limitations, except for my mac.  And speaking of how great a mac is, if you post a picture please re-size it to max 800 pixels wide.  Preview works and so does iPhoto.  We have many pc’s in our house, and they never could just sit there, with their covers on, working.  Always hard drives dangling about, fans blowing, blue screens and cries of terror.  I understand that they are flexible, but this is so … hard to take apart and that is fine because it never breaks and it is safe from prying hands.

So if things appear and disappear, just wait.  And I have to approve a first comment, and then you should be good to go.

Patience Grasshopper

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22 Responses to Playing with Plug-ins

  1. xty says:

    Testing this new comment thing to see if the comment is editable.

    And so it was. But I trust only by me!

  2. xty says:

    Hmnnnn … blew up my own comment. Note to self … look for better comment interface.

  3. Pete Maravich says:

    in honor of Xty’s excellent adventure. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EwaFkPMdlY

  4. EO says:

    I assume that one comment of mine had to be approved because it had more than one link. You emailed a screenshot yesterday about some of your setup choices, and I think there was something in there about that. I wasn’t totally in the penalty box. I posted again right after. It was just that one post with the two links.

    I could have crushed Pete anytime, bwa ha ha, but I was busy getting my beauty sleep.

    And…Good Morning! EDIT: seeing if this works. Yes, but I lost my image. It was there on the initial post, but disappeared when I edited the text. 🙁

  5. xty says:

    pete – all I did was drag the url onto the comment field and it displayed. There is something fishy, but it we seem to be getting there! And I kind of like the generated avatar you got. Grows on one! And you could certainly take EO’s avatar, one bite at a time.

  6. xty says:

    Yes you are right – there was a link limit that called for moderation.
    Did you notice the live preview at the bottom of the comment zone? Doesn’t seem to work for pictures so it is nigh on useless, but there we have it.

    I am going to try and add a weather widget!

  7. EO says:

    I still want to post this. I love this one.

    EDIT: and now the picture is back in the first one? Maybe there’s a lag, or it waits for the editing time to expire? Oh well, now it’s posted twice.

    It’s a journey…

  8. xty says:

    And you should be able to edit a comment, at least for a while.

  9. EO says:

    Yes confirmed, if you edit it tricks you into thinking you have lost your image, but it’s temporary and it appears again when the page is refreshed for any reason.

    How is gold this morning? Oops, sorry I looked. Stocks look steady though.

    Here’s a blast from the past:

    I like the spellcheck. It says “No writing errors were found.” Seems a little overly all encompassing, but I’ll take it, for my ego’s sake.

    EDIT:
    Hmmmm. no idea why that youtube didn’t format. I pasted the link same as yesterday. Well, who cares, it’s a beautiful day outside.

    2nd Edit: did first edit, refreshed the page, and all was well. What an adventure!

  10. xty says:

    I have no idea why it is doing that.

  11. xty says:

    That seemed to work with just a copy and paste of the url.

  12. Dryocopus pileatus says:

    i still have tomatoes, bell peppers, and chili peppers ripening at a decent rate. i have them growing right up against the south facing and longest length of my house, which also has very reflective white siding. so as long as we don’t have more than a few killing frosts, after which i just give up with covering stuff, i will be making fresh Pico de Gallo at least once a week. last year i picked tomatoes until the 3rd weekend in November. our normal first frost is mid to late September!

    so i just finished making a batch of that, and am cooking down a stock pot full of black beans – all fresh ingredients as well, including the dried beans. so we will be cooking something Mexican tonight. it is such a nice day here that i don’t want to slave over a hot stove, otherwise i think i would make some pork for tamales. instead, i just ran out and got some Sol, and also blue corn chips at the Mexican store. tonight it’s going to be nachos.

    so if you listen closely, you may even be able to hear the first bottle being opened. 🙂

  13. Dryocopus pileatus says:

    something Xty said reminded me of a cartoon…

  14. Pete Maravich says:

    alright..let’s see..another test drive in Xty’s fine,new vehicle…3,2,1.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ-OuRNFZA4

  15. xty says:

    I promise I am not doing this intentionally.

  16. xty says:

    But now I can’t make the video work either. Humph, and it will have to wait ’till after late dinner.

    And then I edited the comment, and boom, the video appeared. Odd.

  17. Pete Maravich says:

    we’re cool…no worries..gonna try again,let’s see. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O69L2mO9y-4

  18. EO says:

    Did someone say “boom”?

    nice weather plugin, though now I’m going to have to put a C/F converter on my desktop. 🙂

    and yes, my vid didn’t appear until I edited and hit save

  19. Dryocopus pileatus says:

    i have been spending a lot of time in 1970 lately.

  20. Dryocopus pileatus says:

    i see that now i am on moderation too. well, fine. this next video goes out to my golf buddy Steve Stricker, who grew up only 10 miles from here. your censorship is no match for this woman’s patriotism and spirit of adventure Xty…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UFKIAqWTWg
    you know i just realized that nudity at a full throttle isn’t really all that sexy. for this poor girl there’s no way to get the genie back in the bottle. she is already an internet sensation. 🙂

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