Apr-19-2016, 07:18 PM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: Apr-19-2016, 07:31 PM (UTC) by Mervi.)
Right. I've been working on this for pretty much 12 hours now and I think it's time to see how the creature copes in the wild.
I had to re-install the whole thing several times due to all sorts of errors, but once I got the latest version running properly, it was only a matter of finding a suitable theme, tweaking it to have more or less the same functionality as the previous, weed out all the dead plugins and install new ones. They've included a lot of stuff that used to be third-party to the core code (which is great) but at the same time have made some pretty weird changes (getting rid of the avatar gallery for example - luckily someone has written a plugin for that). So far it's difficult to say whether it was worth it (other than from the safety angle).
Some notes, and please feel free to ask questions and tell me something doesn't work, I haven't yet had a chance to test on different browsers etc!
- there's currently no mobile theme, I need to look into the options properly first
- speaking of themes, the old ones had to go, and I only had time today to tweak one to fit the overall layout, so I've forced than on everyone. There will hopefully be other options in the future and I will mostly likely be tweaking this one as well.
- spoiler and wiki codes should work as before. Any issues -> do let me know please!
- also if you're missing any features, please leave a comment. I probably haven't even noticed they're gone yet because I've been staring at the code all day long!
- The footers are a bit of a mess at the moment, the theme includes a lot of those social media buttons etc that I simply haven't had the time to go through yet. Also I'll need to see how to include the old affiliate links.
eta: it looks like Firefox is getting creative with the main header/navigation. I'll look into it later - the links seem to work and that's the most important thing anyway.
Ahh no, it's just simply a matter of refresh, refresh, refresh!
I had to re-install the whole thing several times due to all sorts of errors, but once I got the latest version running properly, it was only a matter of finding a suitable theme, tweaking it to have more or less the same functionality as the previous, weed out all the dead plugins and install new ones. They've included a lot of stuff that used to be third-party to the core code (which is great) but at the same time have made some pretty weird changes (getting rid of the avatar gallery for example - luckily someone has written a plugin for that). So far it's difficult to say whether it was worth it (other than from the safety angle).
Some notes, and please feel free to ask questions and tell me something doesn't work, I haven't yet had a chance to test on different browsers etc!
- there's currently no mobile theme, I need to look into the options properly first
- speaking of themes, the old ones had to go, and I only had time today to tweak one to fit the overall layout, so I've forced than on everyone. There will hopefully be other options in the future and I will mostly likely be tweaking this one as well.
- spoiler and wiki codes should work as before. Any issues -> do let me know please!
- also if you're missing any features, please leave a comment. I probably haven't even noticed they're gone yet because I've been staring at the code all day long!
- The footers are a bit of a mess at the moment, the theme includes a lot of those social media buttons etc that I simply haven't had the time to go through yet. Also I'll need to see how to include the old affiliate links.
eta: it looks like Firefox is getting creative with the main header/navigation. I'll look into it later - the links seem to work and that's the most important thing anyway.
Ahh no, it's just simply a matter of refresh, refresh, refresh!
"Green nubs on the dry sticks of the clematis promised that the appearance of death was not death itself." - Ship of Destiny
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