Comments on: The 6 problems I’m having with our move to WPMU (can you help?)

By: Joellen Robertson

Joellen Robertson — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:57:08 +0000

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By: Bryan Murley

Bryan Murley — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:28:31 +0000

Sean, this service looks interesting, and might be worth exploring if you seriously want to put out a weekly e-mail edition: feedjournal.com.

As to the “double breaks” issue, I think you might be overthinking this. I have no problem using the visual editor in WP and getting adequate space between paragraphs using the CSS styles and changing the margin in the (p) tag. Or am I missing something?

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Right hand on my heart « beyond the map stars — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:49:21 +0000

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By: Kelly Sutton

Kelly Sutton — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:19:14 +0000

1. You formed the sentence wrong: weekly editions are not a good way to deliver “news.”

2. Not sure exactly what an access domain is. Sounds like a problem having to do with relative paths.

3. Mysterious.

4. There are several things that can do this, the easiest is a script that says “make every \n into \n\n and remove all \t”

5. Is there no way to get photo descriptions out of flickr? If there is, put a CSS wrapper around your images and add a tag.

6. Delegation.

By: JohnofScribbleSheet

JohnofScribbleSheet — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:24:00 +0000

I thought you would have had some SPAM problems. I assume your using Akismet which is keeping the spam at bay.

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By: Sean Blanda

Sean Blanda — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:26:57 +0000

Thanks guys this is all gold.

We should all collaborate more…

And Greg, that is too funny. How come you didnt make it up?

By: Chelsea Otakan

Chelsea Otakan — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:49:47 +0000

@Chelsea, the filtering controls for html in posts are in wp-includes/kses.php by the way, your site is really pretty
I think the best way for both of these might be to code the two javascript functions that are needed. Hmm… I wonder if there’s any ajax libraries you could build off of. I know for one we’ve been searching for something to add in photo captions and credits in wordpress for a while now.

Thanks! I’ll edit that file and try that plugin again

By: albert

albert — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:50:16 +0000

following up on my last comment, hacking this file wp-includes/js/quicktags.js?ver=3958 would probably be relatively easy to add in a new function to do double line breaks/p tags whatever you prefer to format text.

cutlines for images seems a little harder. the most elegant solution would be to modify the function that gets called when you click “send to editor” but an easier hack might be to write a function that formats images after the fact.

By: albert

albert — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:23:09 +0000

Sounds like the “double breaks” problem and the photo cutlines problem mean you just need a couple of additional functions on TinyMCE instead of most of the useless ones that are currently there.

Personally, I don’t like TinyMCE very much. It has issues with browser compatibility, it just doesn’t want to play nice with Safari, and making sure it’s html filtering doesn’t mess things up is a pain. Beyond that, most of it’s functions are just unnecessary for a site when nearly all the formatting is the same for every post, and so the formatting is in the stylesheet where it belongs. I have it disabled for as much as possible on our blogs.

@Chelsea, the filtering controls for html in posts are in wp-includes/kses.php by the way, your site is really pretty

I think the best way for both of these might be to code the two javascript functions that are needed. Hmm… I wonder if there’s any ajax libraries you could build off of. I know for one we’ve been searching for something to add in photo captions and credits in wordpress for a while now.