Ree’s Blogsome

Yup — again. I’m betting all my quotes and apostrophes get slashes added and not removed. Ten bucks. Betcha I’m right. And again.

Holy crap, that yellow line thing in the admin console is supposed to be post preview?! I guess it doesn’t work in Win/Opera. It sure works in Linux/Mozilla though.

I wonder if that script misfiring is what keeps crashing Opera on the post edit screen. Something about it drives Opera bonkers and consistently crashes the sucker. I’ll have to try turning off the preview next time I hit Blogsome using Opera.

Oh wow. Admittedly I’m passingly familiar with PHP code. I’m still getting over a nasty head cold, too. But Smarty makes not a lick of sense to me.

Ow. Music hurts my head.

I can’t find a list of all the Smarty tags Blogsome uses. I’ve found lists but they appear incomplete, lacking the parts of my template that are giving me trouble in the first place.

Problems catalog:

• CSS doesn’t repeat on static pages (using Pink Lilies template at least), making the pages look strange and illegible
• Template attempts to include static pages in Recent Posts but gives them URLs of “http://SITENAME.blogsome.com/pages/INSERT-RANDOM-SLUG-HERE” (this may be a problem with private static pages; will test)
• Using the LI button in the admin area puts spaces before each list entry, which may not be a problem but bugs me anyway
• I know it’s WordPress, not Blogsome, but that Firefox button in the admin area pisses me off. What about Opera? What about Safari? Konqueror? Hell, original Mozilla? Link to Browse Happy or IE Bad — I agree completely that IE must be stopped — but tell me my chosen browser is wrong and I will get bitchy.

Man, I wish I could backup these posts.

How peculiar. Posting using w.bloggar and the MT API worked perfectly, which was not what I expected. Perhaps the problem lies within the del.icio.us posting device, as it’s hardly stable to begin with.

Still. How bothersome that MT blogs can post their del.icio.us links automatically in any number of ways, as daily posts or sidebar, and I am reduced to Javascript methods that can be turned off clientside (as mine often is) and never picked up by search engines or such. Javascript is such a bother in XHTML besides. But now I’m peevish in my geekiness and that just isn’t pretty.

I’ll have to play with the del.icio.us daily job doohicky some more. There’s a rumour it may use the Blogger API, in which case I don’t understand how it can handle categories at all. Oh, for a manual.

Testing Wordpress implementation of MovableType API. I’ve been running my del.icio.us bookmarks into here and trying to put them in their own category, but the links keep being dumped in General instead.

To test my theory that WordPress (or the multi-user implementation, at least) doesn’t respect the categories part of the MT API, I have set up w.bloggar to post to Blogsome as though it were an MT blog. Now to test.