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Wed. Aug 03, 2005
Temporarily Fragile
Things are likely to look weird around here for a bit. After much hesitation, I’m finally upgrading my 14 month old install of TextPattern gamma 1.19 to the latest version, Textpattern RC5 (hey, I’m just thankful it’s not going to be named Textpattern MX2005).
And, of course, a simple straight upgrade isn’t enough. Oh, no. I’m going to have to play around with lots of new tags (and replace old ones that no longer work) and new plug-ins, as well as incorporate a slight rebranding of the site’s look. Translation: I’m fixing what isn’t broken, and may well truly break it trying to make it better.
But I may have just wanted an excuse to post a retro graphic:
Bear with me…
Update: My, that was fun (note, the solution came at 3:12am). The Textpattern upgrade is complete, plug-ins have been updated, and things shouldn’t be nearly as broken as they were last night. Now, on to the design changes and playing with new toys…
Another Update: OK, with a few tweaks, this site now looks a little more worn down, and a little more its age (nearly 9 … that’s 63 in Internet Years). The next time I tweak the design, portions of it may flake off your screen onto your keyboard. I’m still playing around with the new flexibility Textpattern gives you in working with comments, and need to rebuild the form you use to submit a comment, but otherwise I think I’m done breaking things.
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Cool form :)
Well, it’s being a pain in the patootie at this particular moment. Because I couldn’t simply copy and paste Paul’s fine formage as you said you did. No, no, I had to customize it, i.e. break it good.
Can’t get that “if cookie” thing to work worth a dang either. It claims it remembers me … but then it wants my name again.
Still working…
Yes, neat comment form. It remembered my cookie. However, after reading your that was fun link, I think I’ll stick with 1.0rc1 for now.
Back when I upgraded B-1/Wordpress several times, each upgrade said, “just load up all the files except config.php. It’s easy as pie!” Uh huh…...
Forms. The old one was in a table. For a reason, apparently. Let’s just say that trying to get a CSS only form to render … consistently adequate … across the primary browsers on two operating systems is … challenging. And “consistently adequate” is about as far as I can get, as Safari, Firefox, and IE 6.0/PC all render it slightly differently. Throw older versions of IE into the mix, and it’s … a challenge.
As for being remembered, what I was trying to do is use conditional statements to hide the name, email, and URL inputs for those who had a cookie remembering them. I could get it to render that way, but when a remembered visitor tried to comment, it turned out they weren’t actually remembered by Textpattern. Some glitch on my part, I’m sure, but for now, it’s done.
Very clean and very nice, Reid. Excellent upgrade.
This is a test to see if someone with a cookie to remember their name, e-mail, etc. can post a comment without even seeing the text boxes that are ‘remembered.�
Hey, it works!