Readers who view this blog via RSS may noticed that, inspired by the Sea Slug! Team, full feed (with <!–more–> tag workaround) has been enabled and hotlinking protection disabled for Google Reader. In addition, the Simple Spoiler plugin and formatting has been updated.
Next up was trying out tags after reading Owen S’s exhortation. I’m still in the process of deciding how to use this new WP 2.3 feature. At present, I’ve pared down non-anime series categories (retaining blog admin, koma, loot, musings and what) and am using tags to relate posts containing elements that cut across series. So far the most used tags have been oneesama and yuri. ;)
Then I noticed a rather annoying problem: I could only get a maximum of seven posts when viewing by month, category or tag even if said month, category or tag had more than seven posts. Hadn’t noticed this before as I normally use the Manage Posts menu under Site Admin rather than the ELA Archive view but the problem became obvious as I started fooling around with tags.
After riding the merry-go-round of checking the Wordpress Codex and forum, the K2 wiki, my template navigation code, K2 archive settings, Extended Live Archive plugin settings, WP Options Reading settings and so on, I finally discovered that the cause was due to the K2 files being located one sub-directory further down the themes sub-directory (themes > K2_RC1 > k2) than it actually should have been (themes > k2) after switching between the default theme and K2. It’s so good to have “<< Older Page 1 of x” back! And so that’s why the custom banner uploader didn’t work either! Doh. Funnily enough, everything else seemed to worked fine before today’s fix. And to think this not inconsiderable navigational problem has been sitting under my nose for almost three weeks! :(
[BTW since WP 2.3, I can't see Incoming Links either.]
Glad to see you discovered the wonders of that walk-around with the more tag.
I can see incoming links, but now from Google Blogs instead of Technorati … oh well.
k2 is a is such a bitch to work with aint it … =(
Welcome to the club. Glad you could make it, and good work on the full feeds, btw. Every self-respecting blogger should use them. Feel free to drop me a line if you’re looking for any plugins, I could recommend quite a few. ELA’s got a fix to work with WP 2.3, btw. In case you haven’t heard of it.
In defence of K2, it just works so well with a bunch of plugins that I really like e.g. ELA, BLC, gravatars, so I’m really glad that it works with WP 2.3
Incoming links were down because the search engine block option under Privacy was on. That’s been changed and Google Blog search data is slowly starting to come onstream.
It’s not that K2 is bad, it’s just that K2 is hard to customize. K2 has some really really slick integrations with various plugins (especially on the archives page), but because everything is so tied together, when you change one thing, it often breaks 2 others.
I am stil trying to get a handle on how I want to use tags. I’ve split up our reviews by rating, and I have tagged some milestone posts, but the majority of the posts are already neatly described by their category (the series name).
I don’t know about this switch to Google Blog Search for incoming links. So far it is just a rehash of latest posts, which is really really lame.
I love the caption on the picture. Kuroi-sensei, fighto!
As such, K2 is perfect for me because I’m too lazy and ill-informed to do much customization and I can justify my lack of customization by blaming K2. A most happy partnership.
I picked up the practice of captioning some screencaps from SS!T too. ;) But I’m not inclined to learn blogging tips from Kuroi-sensei, especially after her little Gyaaaaaaa!!! moment at the end of Ep 23. Poor Kuroi-sensei, I really don’t understand why she’s single! -_-;;