Over the last two weeks Ive ported all old neverendingbooks-post from the last 4 years to a nearly readable format. Some tiny problems remain : a few TeX-heavy old posts are still in $…$ format rather than LaTeXrender-compatible (but Ill fix this soon), a few links may turn out to be dead (still have to check out those), TheLibrary-project links do not exist at the moment (have to decide whether to revive the project or to start a similar idea afresh), some other techie-things such as FoaF-stuff will be updated/expanded soon, et. etc. (and still have to port some 20 odd posts).
Anyway, the good news being that we went from about 40 posts since last july to over 310 posts, all open to the internal Search engine. Having all this stuff online is only useful if one can browse through it easily, so I wanted to install a proper up-to-date archive-plugin…
The current theme Redoable has build-in support for the Extended Live Archives v0.10beta-r18 plugin which would be ideal if I could get it installed… Im not the total newbie in installing WordPress-plugins and Ive read all the documentation and the support-forum and chmodded whathever I felt like chmodding, but still no success… If you know how to kick it into caching the necessary files, please drop a comment!
The next alternative Ive tried was the AWSOM Archive Version 1.2.3 plugin which gave me a pull-down menu just under the title-bar but not much seems to happen when using bloody Safari (Flock was OK though). Maybe Ill give it another go…
UPDATE (jan. 9th) : The AWSOM Archive seems to be working fine with the Redoable theme when custom installed in the footer. So, there is now a pulldown-menu at the bottom of the page.
**UPDATE (jan. 12th) : Ive installed the new version 1.3 of AWSOM Archive and it works from the default position **
At a loss I opted in the end for the simplest (though not the most aesthetic) plugin : Justin Blanton’s Smart Archives. This provides a year-month scheme at the top followed by a reverse ordered list of all months and titles of posts and is available as the arXiv neverendingbooks link available also from the sidebar (up, second link). I hope it will help you not to get too lost on this site…
Suggestions for a working-from-the-box WordPress Archive plugin, anyone???
archive, arxiv, blogging, foaf, latex, latexrender, plugin, simples, wordpress
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Written on Tue, 08 January 2008 at 8:22 pm
Tags: archive, arxiv, blogging, foaf, latex, latexrender, plugin, simples, wordpress
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January 9th, 2008 at 3:27 am
Hi, This is Harknell, the developer of the AWSOM Archive plugin. I’m curious to know what didn’t work for you when using Safari and the plugin. I’ve tested the plugin with all of the major browsers and it works normally. What version of Safari are you using? I would guess from your statement that when you selected a post from the drop down list it didn’t actually take you to the page.
Can you do a test and try going to my AWSOM.org website with Safari and see if the archive on my site works for you. If it does then there might be a conflict happening with something else installed in Wordpress. If it doesn’t work there then I’ll have to dig deeper and see what’s going on.
January 9th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Thanks for the comment! Your site works fine for me under Safari, so it probably is a conflict with another plugin. Ill try to fix it. Ive re-activated the AWSOM archive plugin, so if you know what might be wrong, please tell.
UPDATE : even with all plugins deactivated (except AWSOM archive) it does not work…
UPDATE 2 : Got it working when custom installed in the footer of the theme!
January 9th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
I would suspect then that there’s something in your theme that’s conflicting. (and it does look like your theme has a ton of javascript it loads up)–If you want to confirm this switch to the default theme temporarily and see if it work then. But anyway, it’s good that you got it working using the theme code.
Oh, BTW, I’m releasing version 1.3.0 tomorrow so you might want to upgrade to that version.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Thanks! Ive just installed version 1.3 and it works fine! However, one remaining issue (or is that how it is supposed to act?) : when i use the drop down and go to a single post, there is some junk text beneath the drop-down menu and it is now located at the very top of the page (ie. before the header). Any suggestions?
UPDATE : fixed it, just custom installed in index and single post.