Wheelistically @ Claire.NU

Back to this blog­ging lark after being snowed under with work for another pro­ject. I had the bright idea of con­vert­ing the main site to Word­Press2.0 on the basis that the CMS I was pre­vi­ously using (Min­iS­ite) was no longer being supported/developed in any way. (I would include the link, but it seems a little redund­ant see­ings as even the web­site for it has upped its roots and now all that remains is a notify mes­sage and a link to the ex-developers cur­rent site). To be hon­est the pro­ject had out-grown Min­iS­ite in any case, and it was becom­ing cum­ber­some to man­age, or so I thought.

No stranger to Word­Press, I thought the con­ver­sion would actu­ally save on labour, boy was I wrong! That new “Visual Rich” WYSIWYG editor in v.2.0 is the pits…Anyone know how you turn that bas­tard thing off?!?! With v.1.5.x you can pretty much mix raw cod­ing in with the very basic/simple/uninterfering WYSIWYG editor and it all goes swim­mingly. The “VR” WYSIWYG editor in v.2.0 is so invas­ive! It’s great for newbies/ex-Bloggers etc who require spoon-fed format­ting, but you can’t just cut and paste raw (X)HTML in there without it remov­ing and rearran­ging bits and pieces to suit itself. I know there’s a little HTML but­ton you can click and paste bits and bobs into there, but if you then need to then edit/re-edit that same page, it seems you’re stuck with the “VR” WYSIWYG fea­tures, ars­ing about the enter and back­space keys to try and “trick” the editor into gen­er­at­ing a <p> block and not a <div> block or vice-versa.

Maybe its because that prior to Word­Press, I never worked this way, I’ve always been faith­ful to good ol’ Note­Pad. Or maybe, just maybe, I’m being a bit of a numpty and have missed some­thing pain­fully obvi­ous and have been caus­ing myself no end of grief for undue reason.

EDIT:
Ok, I am OFFICIALLY a numpty. Although I’d set the options to NOT use the “Visual Rich” Editor by default, the check box for it still remained clicked in my own indi­vidual pro­file. I just real­ised this and have un-checked it now…Well, atleast now I know. And atleast I can now upgrade all my other Word­Press–based sites with fear of that damn “VR” editor…If only I’d have known before con­vert­ing 70+ pages …Bugger…Oh well, gotta laugh really.

Any­way, its all con­ver­ted now, so I can’t com­plain too much. I’m also quite pleased that after a lot of fid­dling and tweak­ing, I man­aged to get the Word­Press, Cop­per­mine and PHPBB tem­plates to look near-identical so now that all areas of the site look pretty seam­less (I’d always found PHPBB tem­plates to be a bit of a sod and always had to com­prom­ise, up to now).

Else­where, I’ve been toy­ing with the Night Mode on my phone cam­era whilst bored. I can’t wait to get a decent Digital SLR and take some decent “night” pics whilst out in a car. I love the move­ment in the street lights. Excuse the poor quality/resolution of the mobile pics below, but you get the idea, nonetheless.