December 16th, 2007New Site is Live
As you can see, the new SASAG website is now live. The old site is still available as well.
I’m still interested in comments and suggestions regarding improvements to the site. The following suggestions were made at the SASAG meeting:
- Make the front page for meeting announcements only, and have separate pages for, e.g., posts about the Web site, book reviews, and so on.
- Obfuscate e-mail addresses automatically
- Implement a system so that posts can be written, then later posted automatically based on the date.
I like all three of these suggestions, but don’t know how to implement any of them in WordPress. I’m fairly sure that it involves writing plugins, however. I did search, but didn’t find plugins that do any of the above. If anyone wants to take a crack at writing these, or knows of existing plugins that fill these roles, please mail me or comment here.
3 Responses to “New Site is Live”
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
December 17th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Lookin’ sweet, John. Good job!
December 17th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
My friend Zach pointed me to his blag when I asked him about the first question. He says replace the “-38″ with a comma-separated list of the categories you want on the front page, and use category links for the rest.
On the second point unaware of a complete Wordpress plugin to do it right, but there’s a bunch of code snippets and a well thought out system at A List Apart.
The third bullet point is actually implemented in Wordpress- if you publish an article with a future timestamp, the system will do exactly what you’re looking for.
Can I also make a plea to add the OpenID plugin to the site? OpenID may have trust issues, but it’s more than adequate for blog comments (and if you get OpenID blog spam, then you’ll have a piece of history on your hands).
January 26th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
I tried to add the OpenID plugin, but it gave me a meaningless error, and I can’t figure out what to look at to troubleshoot this. If you know, please do let me know.
Thanks for the other advice — we’ll see what happens.