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WordPress 3.0 and Roster plugin

Gonzo — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:58:15 +0000

WordPress 3.0 has been released and I am loving the new admin theme. I’m sure there are many new and exciting changes that I am yet unaware of, but the most significant for me is that wp-lifestream, -the- plugin this theme was build around, is broken. Slowly but steadily the creator is releasing fixes, but whatever my problem might be; it hasn’t been fixed yet.

In other news; I’m creating my first wordpress plugin. It started as a plugin I could use for my Team Fortress 2 clan Gathering of Tweakers 3. But I decided to simplify it a bit and make it more general; a roster page for anything involving a team. Be it a roster page for your Guild Wars guild or for your Team Fortress 2 clan. Plans for the future involve support for multiple teams, grabbing avatars from steam and quite possibly other sites, wow armoury support, aion site support. Though I’m not sure about the later two, this one is meant to be quite generic and implementing something like that in an all-round plugin might be a bit too much, especially since there are probably plugins out there that already do that.

Anyway all those things are beyond what I can do with php at the moment, as this is my first php creation ever.

Presenting: HMFTA v 3.0

Gonzo — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:07:31 +0000

This is probably the first time that I did this little to tweak a theme, but I just can’t think of anything that I do not like in this one. Of course I will change something as time passes, but I don’t think it will be anything major. I really do like this theme as it is. Now the hard part: Actually using the blog.

Changing hosts

Gonzo — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:09:56 +0000

As my old host has put up some limitations with outside connections I’m switching hosts. This new host also comes with a range of new stuff: cheaper, higher datalimit, more diskspace and other means of getting in touch with customer support then a ticket system. Which also means that I’m moving my portfolio there too sometime in the future (got to be done sometime October).

The problem is the who.is transfer though. It’s taking longer then I wish it would, this is because joker.com sends a confirmation mail which I actually have to cancel instead of confirm. If I haven’t cancelled by the 20th of April they will carry on. I did, however, already backup my site (with the exception of the database), so I can’t really work on my theme. Well I could, but that would mean either another backup or checking which files I’ve changed. Hell, even this post could be a problem since I’m also testing the post image function that comes with this theme. You see; a post is just another database entry, but the image is part of the hosting. However it’s just one file, I’m sure I can find that.

omigawd, what’s happening to the site?

Gonzo — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:55:04 +0000

As nobody will notice, this site is undergoing changes. I am going to re-do the site as a blog and with that comes a new theme, the deletion of some of my portfolio stuff (as that has been moved to http://wbaars.nl) and new fancy plugins. So, don’t complain that the site nobody visits suddenly looks off, because doing a new theme is a tedious process for me and I just can’t be bothered to create a test wordpress install and not do it on the live version. Yes, it’s not the proper way to work. Then again, this site has 1 visit a month and it is not my portfolio (where I do have a somewhat professional approach to working with the site).

HMFTA is dead, long live HMFTA

Gonzo — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:58:35 +0000

I have some good news and some bad news.

The bad: Howmuchfortheape.com went down. Why? Simple, the idea behind the site was that I and some friends of mine had a place to dump our writing, when we did any. The problem with this is that those friends and myself also have lives, jobs and even blogs to maintain. We just didn’t get to writing anything that would be good for the site. We have tried to think of subjects, but even that wasn’t much good. I myself tried to find a new angle to write about second life, but that program just scared the living daylight out of me.

The good: Howmuchfortheape.com went live today. But wait, didn’t you just say it went down? I did. I’m turning it into a personal portfolio site for myself. Or at least, something like it. Basically a personal homepage. It will hold a blog where I will still write stuff. My stories from the old site will also be featured somewhere on the this site and I am going to host my game screenshots on it, since I’m already hosting them on this web-space and the plug-in I’m using now is so much easier then the one I currently have.

That was all, I would like to thank everybody that made this site possible, mainly Mike who inspired me to make it in the first place.

It was a fun dream while it lasted. Farewell apeshit, I will miss you.