Too many things to worry about…

San Marcos Coco Fire Burning into Escondido

At least the wind has let up. They seem to be getting ahead of the fires.

9 fires in different places. All but one has suspicious beginnings. Its arson…

The large building on the skyline right of center is the new Palomar hospital. Looking west over Hwy I-15 from the east-side frontage road near the Valley Parkway exit. Over the mountain in the center is the University of California at San Marcos. It and thousands of homes to the west were evacuated yesterday. Over night the fire came over the mountain. Many homes have burned, but it is not as bad as a few years ago… Lots of tragedy.

The air is horrible from all the smoke.

Josh Lobe, the author of Tiny MCE, has WP Edit out, which is a plug-in like Tiny. But, it works with the new WP 3.9+ versions. If you are a user of additional editing buttons, like I am, the changeover takes the pain out of the WP 3.9 upgrade.

See WP Edit or click Add New in plug-ins and search for WP Edit.

I don’t know what has happened with the SL News post for 2014-10-3. It simply will not publish in a readable form. I am experimenting to see if I can find the problem. I may try publishing it in pieces.

I’ve done some more work on my blog. For a time the updates for Followers failed, again. I got that fixed. I think it is still working after my last changes.

The notices fix broke the pages behind the menu items The Stuff and Viewers. Now those pages are fixed and it looks like Follow Notices are still working. Let me know if you do or don’t get notices.

I’ve been looking for a fix for the iPad’s having Google Ads that cover up some of the article text. I can only reproduce the problem on iPads. The problem seems to be in Google’s code. There is a particular page size that is not being handled correctly.

I suppose Samsung and other tablets might have the same problem as they render a page in the size range of iPads. I don’t have access to any of those. Let me know if you are using a tablet and seeing a problem.

I have some hope I may be able to correct it with a CSS change. But, not much. From time to time I’ll work on it. I’m just short time.

I have the Viewer Pages working… mostly. These pages use a custom page template that finds all the pages about viewers and then lists the posts for a specific viewer. Access the pages from the menu on the left.

The viewer pages are based on post category. So, you can get a similar list using the drop down category selector over in the right-hand column.

I want a different presentation with a sort-of sticky post at the top of the pages. That requires some tweaking to the WordPress files. I had that in the previous theme. Since my last blog theme was made from scratch and this one uses the theme Sunspot by Automattic I needed to build a child theme. That means I have to figure out what Automattic did and how to change it to get what I want. Continue reading →

I have found some good things and some bad things in this theme. One of them is my fault. The Viewer pages and The Stuff pages are not working. I used custom pages for those. I would need to move those over from my old theme. But, I’ll actually need to rewrite them for the responsive design. So, it is going to take some time to make that fix. You can still get to the articles, just use the categories selector on the right.

New Theme Jan 2014

I’ve added advertising. I ended up using the Quick Adsense plug-in. I tried All In One Adsense. It did not allow me to use ads in widgets. Quick Adsense does. It was easy to set up once I got past my initial confusion.  Continue reading →

Well maybe…

I’m looking for a new theme for this blog. I am trying this one out, SUNSPOT. I kinda like it. I’ll give it a few days.

The feed in the old theme is broken. Somewhere in the code I built I added a space into the output where I shouldn’t have. Ever since I started getting notes that the feed was broken I’ve been looking for the problem. I’ve traced it into the theme. But, I have not been able to find the mistake. With this theme that should be fixed.

Thanks for the notes about it being broken. If it is still not working let me know.

I’ll be adding back in my advertising and other widgets over the next few days. Most of the important stuff is there. Plus this is a responsive design so it should be better for phones and tablets. I hate the menu on phones and tablets. I’ll either customize it or replace the theme just because of that. But, it is useable and I do like the look on a desk top.

Comments are welcome.

This site is going to be on and off line and themes may change today as I try to debug a couple of problems in the site.