10 Aug
Another Month, Another Post
Well, hey; it’s time for the obligatory monthly post announcing that I’m not dead! I’m presently on an unpaid vacation of sorts; I should have a bit more time to spend with In Series as a result. I’m thinking about dedicating a full-time week or two to shoring things up, after I’ve finished traveling and unwinding. I’m doing snippets and snatches of work here and there (I’ve spent some time on tests today, as a matter of fact), but nothing serious.
As always, I’ll be around for bugs and troubleshooting; however, my turnaround time might be a little higher than usual.
7 Responses to “Another Month, Another Post”
Posted: Aug 19th, 2007 at 05:21
Count us (me, my wife and our blog) among those who are grateful that you are not dead.
Thanks for your continued work on a valuable plug-in.
Cheers,
Dan
Posted: Aug 26th, 2007 at 06:59
Any chance you can make it easier to kill individual entries in a series (in case the thing gets too bloated - too many items in a series) as well as killing a series altogether? I know you can go to the SQL tables and edit them, but that’s too techie for some people and too slow for the rest.
Posted: Aug 26th, 2007 at 07:22
@ KC
I suppose that’s a fair observation. Renaming a series is more believable operation than deleting an entire series while retaining the individual posts, but that has the exact same “you have to edit every one” issue. That said, we’re getting into a different paradigm for interacting with a series — treating the series as a stand-alone entity that can be edited and manipulated independent of posts. I’ll have to meditate on a design that will allow for renaming and deleting of entire series, without evoking a “why can’t I add/remove individual posts to/from the series with this?” response, while still ensuring that users can find the series-editing UI.
I’ve entered this as bug 25.
Posted: Sep 1st, 2007 at 06:09
I’ve got the In-Series plugin working and I think it’s great. However, the table of contents are appearing in the post snippets on category pages making the category a little repetitive. I use the more tag to control where the snippet ends in case that is a factor.
Posted: Sep 1st, 2007 at 09:34
@Marios
Well, that shouldn’t happen :)
If you could could let me know the versions of WordPress and In Series that you’re using (and, if you know them, for PHP and MySql, too), along with an exact set of steps I can follow to reproduce the problem, that would be great. If you could put all that into the bug tracker for me, that would be even better. A link to a page exhibiting the problem would also be helpful.
I’m curious to know what’s going on, since I’ve never experienced the behavior you describe before, and I can’t immediately think of how it could happen.
Posted: Sep 2nd, 2007 at 16:22
Quandary,
The theme I’m using uses the_content on the archive page. Replacing this with the_excerpt produces the same snippet, but without the table of contents from the in-series plugin. I don’t know whether you consider this a bug or correct behavior. Either way I’m good for now!
Posted: Sep 2nd, 2007 at 16:44
Hey Marios,
It’s a bug insofar as it relates to bug 13; aside from that, though, it is expected behavior (”correct” is arguable ;). Glad you got things sorted! (You may want to double-check that bug 10 isn’t affecting you now, though).