Archive for June, 2007

Google Documents and Wordpress

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

My dissertation post is here. When I edit the document at Google Documents and republish, it overwrites the post, so any explanatory text or tags are lost. One thing that is a little annoying is how it tries to take over the right-click context menu. I end up with the Google Document right-click menu opening up, with the Firefox context menu on top of it, obscuring the top half of the google menu.

I would have thought Google would have known better than to try to subvert such an important browser function. Bad Google, Bad!

The good: revision control, easy collaboration, seamless output to many formats, rich editing features.
The bad: post metadata isn’t preserved, non-standard browser UI, no way(I know of) to put the post on a separate page.

Maybe I could get the best of both by sticking the RSS feed of revisions on a separate WP page.

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Keywords work now, and editing works. Now to get widgets figured out.

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Deleting posts from the manage page doesn’t work, but deleting from the edit entry page does work. There are about 10 support threads at Wordpress for this, but no resolution. The ones where it was a rights issue have been figured out, but not the weird behavior of the manage page.

Because the widgets work in the default theme, but not in Tiga, there must be some weirdness with the theme, but I should be able to paste the widget code into sidebar.php in the theme directory.

I don’t think wp-admin/widgets.php works with tiga, because it expects wp-content/plugins/widgets.php. I’ll have to check that soon, and in the mean time, I could probably just paste the code in.

Replacing tiga’s sidebar.php with the default’s works, but the formatting is screwed up. I need to figure out what parts of the default sidebar need to be reproduced in tiga’s.

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I’m having issues with my old theme, Tiga, and the new wordpress.

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Some things don’t work until I get this figured out.

Specifically, the jerome’s keywords plugin doesn’t work with both Tiga and wordpress2.2, though they work with either alone.
Many of the fancier sidebar widgets don’t work, like the one that displays RSS feeds.

Not only that, but I can’t delete posts.

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