We had a power outage for about four hours tonight. Even though a UPS wouldn’t have lasted for that long, it’s the cycling of power that worries me. Right before the power went out, it flickered on and off for about 30 seconds. That’s when you know something is going to happen.
I like power outages during the day; at least you can do something. There’s only so much you can do in the dark before it gets boring.
I finally wrapped my brain around how to setup subdomains on ourwasteland. Instead of having different users on the main blog, I just setup multiple subdomains and multiple blogs. Now each person has a little more control over what to do with their blog.
And I took plenty of notes so when things go screwy a few months from now, at least everything will be written down.
Of course by then I’ll have forgotten where the notes are…
this isn’t really Ketonia but I’m posting under her account. The idea of the site is to have three accounts: user1, user2 and main. The site will be broking into three parts with the main being the first thing that is seen. Then there will be a link to user1 or user2, which will also resolve to their own URL, user1.ourwasteland.com and user2.ourwasteland.com, respectively.
What I need to figure out is how to do separate the different users, how to make my own templates (i’ve got a style in mind but it needs to be convert it into a WordPress template) and setup the subdomains.
Once I got off my lazy butt, I realized I can learn alot as I’m hosting two different sites on one server: ourwasteland.com and animationbrad.com.
We’re back to embedding videos again, this time the WYSIWYG editor is enabled. Don’t try this at home!
It seems the solution is to surround the embedded code from YouTube in a < pre> tags. And all those problems I had early just melt away. Sheesh, I hope I don’t run into a lot more of these little issues.
But I didn’t have anything (italics defaults to using <em> tags that split the italicized words onto a different line. Why, I have no idea so to get italics to work, you’ll have to specifically add <i> tags.) to do with the first post. Figures, no matter where I go on the internet, it seems someone always beats me to the first post. And it’s my own blog too.I’m not a big fan of this theme but I’m using it because I wanted to see how easy it was to download and use a new theme. Apparently pretty easy. There is a nice template that I would like to use, or wrap around wordpress, but I’ll have to do it myself. Hopefully it won’t be too difficult.
Ok, figured out how to embedded YouTube videos. Next challenge. -_- (Note: Don’t put any text after the video because Wordpress can’t handle it. Maybe I should start looking for a new blogging type system.)
Update: It isn’t putting text at the end. It’s how wordpress deals with the <object><embed> crap from youtube. When you first publish it (you copy and paste the embedded stuff in the CODE tab of the editor) it looks great. But if you go back to edit it (even if you don’t edit a thing, just the act of loading it back from the database does it) and click save, the formatting gets screwed up. So it’s a issue with wordpress screwing up.
I found a video on YouTube that explains the problem. Oh wait, why don’t I just link to it.
Yea, so the problem is WordPress all the way. Now I just need to figure out if there’s a way to use the advanced text editor all the time. It’ll be a pain in the ass to switch, or to remember to switch when I have to come back and edit something.
