minute changes
These lazy days between christmas and new-year’s eve are ideal to do finally those things one would like to postpone indefinitely. Here is a list of the tiny changes made to this blog : At last, an upgrade from Wordpress version 2.0 to 2.0.5. Something I always defer because of the warnings to back up databases and all changed files and preferences (and as I have these sporadic periods of changing the PHP-code to my taste, I tend to forget the changes I’ve made). Still, things went smoothly as far as I can detect, the only problem I encountered was following the instructions to the letter, such as
Special Exception: the wp-content/cache folder should be deleted.when what they really mean is that one should only delete the contents of the cache-directory. So, I had a 5-second scare starting up the homepage and being greated with an error message saying something to the effect that WP couldn’t write to this directory. Apart from security reasons, this upgrade was necessary to install some WordPress Plugins. Top of my wish-list being RS- Discuss.
RS Discuss is a brand new, tiny, lightweight wordpress forum plugin that is entirely self-contained and integrates tightly and seamlessly into your existing WordPress website. Despite its size, it’s got everything that makes a forum a useful tool:So, if you like to make your own contribution to this site (apart from commenting), the forums (note to old schoolmates : i know it should really be fora…) are open to all from the top menu : forum. At present I’ve only set up a forum dedicated to discussions on noncommutative algebra/geometry but if you like other discussions, you will find a way to let me know. Below each post you will now find a collection of colourful logos. They enable someone who registered to one of the may social-bookmarking sites to add the post to their bookmarks. Here, I used the Sociable plugin. Last year I had a brief period experimenting with CiteULike (see this post ) and I intend to explore some of these bookmarking systems further over the coming months. I’ve moved My Online Publication Page over to this blog using the bib2html plugin. It is now avalable from the top menu : biblio. Every publication has its own BibTeX-popup link as well as a link to the full PDF-file of the preprint version of the paper or book (which may differ slightly from the published version). This page will soon replace the older MOPP-page. I’ve moved the Archives of this blog to the top menu : archive using the Smart Archives Plugin which gives a much better way to read though the past of NeverEndingBooks. Actually getting this plugin to work did cost me some time and (security)-worries, but these are solved, I hope. I you cannot get it to work under WP-2.0.5, contact me and I’ll hopefully still remember what I did. The default Calendar is replaced by an iCal-subscribable calendar using the Event Calendar Plugin. So far, I haven’t added upcoming events yet, but it seemed like a good thing to have when our masterclass-noncommutative geometry starts next semester. Note to Self : Event Calendar is incompatible with the Sociable-plugin, so deactivate it when you want to add a new event. And then there are some totally useless plugins which I just couldnt resist to install. Such as the mystatus plugin which offers an easy way to let you know what keeps me bizzy these days (you will find it in the left-hand sidebar) or the GeoPress plugin which enables me to add google-maps to whatever post I like. For instance, as you may have guessed, I wrote this post from our home and as google-maps of Antwerp have improved drasticly, you can zoom in to my environment to any level of detail you feel appropriate…
Full integration with WordPress’ own user system
Multiple forum setup
RSS feeds for forums, topics and user activity to keep track
Search capabilities
Sidebar widget integration
Totally customisable, including different setups for different themes
Fully featured mdoerator controls including pinning and locking topics
Clean uninstall if you don’t like it
INSERT_MAP Added : this map seems to work with Firefox, Flock and Camino under MacOSX but not with Safari. If you happen to know why, please let me know.