Shawn Sorichetti

After a lengthy outage caused by a ISP move, and shipping issues, I can finally start to blog again. My first photo has already been posted. Can’t believe I took this on July 1st. It really shows how long the ISP outage was.

More to come….

As soon as Firefox finished loading the smashing magazine article “83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen”, I knew I had to install the Redoable theme.

I did experience a few problems.

The first issue I noticed was the first comment on a post had a white background making that post impossible to read. I worked around this by changing the style.css file #commentlist li definition (line 995) to:

Second, padding around inline pictures. I’ve only used one inline picture so far, and I wanted the text to wrap around the picture. I was able to achieve this using:

However, the text of the post continues right next to the image with no spacing around it. I tried changing the padding and margins, and while Firefox would tell me that the styling had changed, the results were always the same. Still haven’t found a fix for this.

The next problem I encountered was with WPMU (WordPress Multi-User) and the Extended Live Archive plugin. I came across this post that explains the edits required to make the two work together. A couple of enables/disables via the Redoable options panel, and it still wasn’t working. The menu item for the archive page wasn’t being listed. It was however listed as a post in MarsEdit. After more disabling and enabling, and looking at the records in the database I came across this comment by Dean J. Robinson on the Redoable release 1.1 post, that explains creating the archive page normally with a page template of Archive. This worked, and I now have Extended Live Archive running.

Overall I’m very happy with the theme and how my blog now looks. There are still some minor issues, but I can live with them, for now. I will be keeping my eye out for new releases of Redoable, as it’s now getting a lot of attention, and more attention means more bugs found.

Thank you Dean J Robinson for making such an awesome theme.

Growing tired of our old installing of Movable Type (before they screwed with their license). I took it upon myself to get WordPress installed. We’re now running WordPress MU.

I’d like to say that the installation went smoothly, but it didn’t. The main problem was with a stable version with features that work. There’s a lot of development going on, but it makes it hard on the installation.

I’ve also been trying to get a good theme installed, but I keep getting PHP function redeclared error messages. I’m going to keep at it, but at least I changed the banner colour.

Now with my first post using MarsEdit isn’t recognizing that I’m using a WordPress blog with the Markdown plugin installed.