Plug-in bounty
I threw the wp-polls widget back up after fixing (I think) the right sidebar today. However, it looks like it’s counting votes but not recording them, though I’m baffled why that would be the case. Maybe it’s using the Mariners mechanism for dealing with fan feedback
for each feedback
{total_feedback_count++;
form_response();
delete feedback;
}
I’ll keep poking at it, though I think my weekend allotment of USSM Labs time is about up. Don’t get mad if you see it up for a second, vote, and then it disappears, eating your vote. Stupid polls.
Anyway — one of the continuing problems we have is that it’s hard to format comments since the quicktags went away, and as a result you get people using [i] to do italics, messing up quotes, all that good stuff. So — if you can find a quicktags plugin or easy way to add plugins to the comments, you get a year’s free subscription to USSM, our public gratitude, and one free off-topic comment of your choice.
And as always, I’m open to hearing about what else would be cool to implement. Except threaded comments.
I’m sorry, I’ve forgotten. Is this WordPress?
Aye.
Talking like pirates! Brilliant!
I thought you guys were on Digital Forest.
_ See the “meta” column up and over
\— there?
And the wordpress.org link in it?
yeah.
I did scan the page before asking, Joser, and missed it. I’m actually looking for a solution right now; are you?
If you guys stopped using comment quicktags because they broke your theme after a WordPress update, this guy apparently fixed the plugin.
HOLY CRAP
YOUROCK!!!Not as nice-looking as the tagging plugin we used to have, but I think it’ll be helpful.
Ahhhhhh.
Nice find, scraps. 😀
Good move, scraps.
You can always edit the values of the buttons. That might help.
Well done, scraps.
Too bad the Bedard craziness is over. That would have been an awesome time, in the middle of a heated argument, to use your off topic reward.
This is a bit off topic, but, what do you think of Sartre’s proposition that we’re all imitating an identity?
I don’t get an off topic freebie, or I’d answer. Sorry.
[we’ll count this as part of Scraps’s freebie]
Sartre’s best work was more than fifty years ago.
What he meant to say was “Richie Sexson is imitating a first baseman. He believes he is tall, therefore his defense is excellent. If opposing batters believe this too, then everyone will go home happy. Happiness is an illusion.”
What? Philosophy and psuedoquotes, and none of our lovely new tags?
Sexson is clearly guilty of acting in bad faith. Every day he goes out there pretending as though he must play the part of the middle-of-the-order slugger…deep in his soul knowing his dream is to live the carefree life of the street mime. Hell, for him, is other people…other people who continue to pay him $14 million to wave weakly at fast moving objects.
I’ve been trying to get wp-polls working for some time with no luck. I’ve basically given up on that (something is conflicting at my site and I’m not smart enough to figure it out). There is another poll out there called Democracy polls that you might look at if you haven’t already.
I really
likelove quick tags.“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be”
Vonnegut.
ah, plug-ins, how I’ve missed ye.
You have to admit that he was pretty effective as a situational lefty out of the bullpen . . .
“Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enoughâ€
–Jean-Paul Sartre when asked to comment on the Mariners’ upcoming season.
do we know that Jean-Paul wasn’t a baseball fan?
“Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat”
“No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.”
and I think the mods need to save “Hell is other people” as a future [ ]
“All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure”
We’re still missing a sarcasm tag. That’s often necessary for me.
Goob in #11 managed to put in a smiley, which can be a decent substitute. But how does one do that?
Using smilies in wordpress
There ya go, MKT. Those are all the default ones that come with WordPress.
HTML ignoranceWell, that takes care of one reason to make fun of me. Sweet!
Ok, now everyone within ear-shot of my office thinks I’m crazy for laughing out loud at my computer monitor.
[come on, dude, at least spell ‘baseball’ correctly]