tiny_mce_gzip.php.patch

the upgrade also means that my WYSIWYG editor is back to the standard font and padding. i dunno how i feel about that.

UPDATE: to apply the patch, i highly recommend using tortoise SVN. because i like GUI's and not having to remember the command line syntax.

download the patch, and right click on it, like so:

tortoise will ask you where to apply it, choose the directory where you've downloaded wordpress 2.1.1. it should then tell you that it's found a similar file in wp-includes/js/tinymce. it'll bring up a split panel window showing the patch and the current version of the file. double click the file in the little window that shows up, close it, hit save, and then upload the changed file to your blog.

Hacks

• the ob_gzhandler() hack that fixes my bug, (the same hack as last time didn't fix it).
• the Jesus hack now takes place in wp-admin/index-extra.php.
• the UTW hack. not that i'm dealing with a torrent of moderated comments, but broken is as broken does.
• added a bunch of .linkcat ul styles. since my linkcats didn't used to have ul's.

Plugins

• i deleted all the plugins i'm not using. during the whole disable/re-enable process, i tend to forget which ones i've decided are crap. i blame this on installer, which makes it far too easy to install widgets for 3 days, decide they're worthless, and then move on. it took a while, but it saves time, or something.
• updated alex king's plugins, which now all have their own hooks, so i had to hack them back out of my theme.
• updated S2C. it was always such a pain, guessing what email people had used to subscribe. i like easy stalking.
• deleted linkslist. hence the sudden existence of ul's. i'm not going to take down the plugin, since people seem to find it useful(for the same reasons i built it), and the 2.0.x branch isn't going away. i'm also not going to update it, because wp_list_bookmarks() does a decent enough job.

#spam-list li {
max-height: 6.5em;
overflow: hidden;
margin-bottom: .5em;
}

#spam-list li * {
display: inline;
}

added to the end of the file. (i actually appended it to tiger.css, which works the same.) this is what it looks like:

if that's not enough context for you, or if it's more than you need, you can adjust max-height to your liking. if you're using IE6 or below to review your spam, you'll want to specify height instead of max-height.

else {
echo $before_title.'No related posts'.$after_title.$before_post.$after_post;
}

in the middle of the file, right before it says // End Related Posts. now all my single post pages validate, not just the ones with related posts.

the next one is purely an annoyance. WPvideo is a great plugin. it's damn near impossible to post youtube videos elsewise. that's why i post them here so often. i finally installed WPvideo because i needed to post some videos in my portfolio.

Now, I understand wanting a link back. I love having linkbacks in my theme. but that's in the footer. it's not hard to add information to footers. spam karma does it. all it takes is a little add_action('wp_footer', 'wpvideo_footer');

that's a damn sight different than sticking a link to your plugin in my #CONTENT, EVERY TIME i insert a video. so i deleted all credit for it. It's my video, not yours. don't go plastering your name on it. so i found:

$htmlcode .= '<div class="wpv_self"><a href="http://www.skarcha.com/wp-plugins/wpvideo/">WPvideo ' . WPV_VERSION . '</a></div>';

and emptied the variable, so the line reads:

$htmlcode .= '';

Also i've found that WP-SWFObject plus the Flash Video Player is a fantastic combination.

While I could do something like hiding .pagelist ul ul ul in CSS, and then making .pagelist ul li.current_page_item visible, the nexted lists under .current_page_item always looked kind of stupid, since there's no way to style them individually. So I looked to squible. because I remembered karrde dealing with a submenu that showed other children of the current page's parent. so now my menu looks like this:

<div class="floatmenu">
<h2 id="page-title"">Mapping</h2>
<ul class="pagelist">
<?php wp_list_pages('exclude=164,202&sort_column=menu_order&depth=2&title_li='); ?>
</ul>
<h2 id="page-title"">Contents</h2>
<ul class="pagelist"><li><ul>
<?php /* karrde is a GOD. this comes from squible */
$kids = get_pages('child_of='. $post->ID);
if (count($kids) > 0) {
wp_list_pages('depth=1&sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&child_of='. $post->ID);
} else {
if ($post->post_parent != 0) {
wp_list_pages('depth=1&sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&child_of='. $post->post_parent);
}
}
?>
</ul></li></ul>
</div><!-- floatmenu -->


Now we get two menus, one of which shows projects and graphics, and their subpages (sortdepth=2 hides the subpages of the projects). The second menu shows only the children the current page, or the children of current page's parent. Works great for pages inside a project (example), or project pages (example). But when you're looking at Projects or Graphics, you get the same sub pages listed twice. Fixing that also fixed the styling issues with having a nested list in .current_page_item:

.pagelist .current_page_item li {
display: none;
}

HA! I love it. This won't work for every CMS use of wordpress. It works for me because i have relatively few 1st and 2nd level pages, and a whooooole lot of 3rd level pages.

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