Ugh … I feel ill … Since I’ve been working on this place all day and losing all track of time, it was 6:30pm before I realized it. Too late to make something for supper and nothing quick to make. So I decided to go to Burger King for supper. I got a Double Whopper with Cheese value meal. Can we say grease!!! The bottom bun was soaked in grease … you could see it.

It did taste pretty good though. Even though I feel really ill now after all that grease. I’d better actually make supper tomorrow nite.

Mood: sick

Well … it looks like I’ve created another plugin today. I’m on a roll …

Anyways, this one is a plugin that will add the weekday next to the date …

• If the post was posted today, it will put “Today”.
• If the post was posted yesterday, it will put “Yesterday”.
• Otherwise it will put the actual weekday (i.e. Tuesday).

I had done this in MT and wanted to use it here too. Took a little more finagling than it did in MT because of the way that WP does the date. But it’s done. If you’d like to do this on your blog too, you can get the plugin here.

And to use this, replace …

<?php the_date(); ?>

with …

<?php weekday_date(); ?>

I’ve only got posts from today in my blog so far, so I can’t test this beyond that. So … if you have any problems or questions, please let me know.

Last Updated on: 23 Jun 04 at 12:56pm
Plugin file: weekday.php
Other needed files: none

Mood: working

Well … looks like I’ve created my first, very own plugin for WordPress. The base install of WP gives you the option to have a comments popup. I was doing that on my MT blog, and wanted to do that here as well. Well, the default comments popup page showed both the trackbacks and the comments. THAT I didn’t want.

Well, in order to get ONLY the comments to show up on the comment popup page, I used the code that Scriptygoddess had for separating the trackbacks and comments on the wp-comments.php page.

That gave me what I wanted for the comments popup page, but how was I going to go about getting the trackback popup page? Well, I modified the code for the comments popup and created a plugin for it. You can download my plugin here. (I don’t think there was one already made. I couldn’t find anything like it.)

Now I needed a wp-trackback-popup.php file. Well, I modified the wp-comments-popup.php file and got this.

In order to get this to work, I put the following in the header …

<?php trackback_popup_script(); ?>

Then, I put the following in the index.php file where I wanted the popup to show up (this was inside of THE LOOP).

<?php trackback_popup_link('Trackbacks (0)', 'Trackbacks (1)', 'Trackbacks(%)'); ?>

It’s working fine for me so far. If you try this out and have any problems, please let me know. And if this post is too confusing, let me know, and I’ll try to explain things better.

If you do end up using this, let me know. I’m curious if anyone else wanted something like this.

Last Updated on: 25 Jun 04 at 1:21pm
Plugin file: trackback_popup.php
Other needed files: wp-trackback-popup.php - put this in the root directory

Mood: accomplished

It’s official. I’ve now converted my personal blog to a WordPress blog. I still have some tweaking to do at this point, but for the most part, it’s all set up how I want it.

If you’ve been a regular reader of WxGal’s World :: Journal then you’ll have noticed a couple things. First … the URL is different. Second … I didn’t import any of the entries from my old blog.

I wanted to make a fresh start. Leave all of the negativity in my old blog (not that there won’t be any here, but … ). I’m going to leave my old one up, but leave it as just an archive. I’m going to close all comments and trackbacking. And since I’m using my MT install as a content management thing for my Dale Jr website, I’m not going to delete the install. So I figured it would be easier to just put it in another subdomain. I’ll put a link in my old one so that people who visit there can make there way here.

Also, this blog will hopefully contain more code and scripts and hacks and stuff … especially for WordPress. It just depends on if there’s anything I want to add and if I can figure it out (or if Jen figures it out before me … )

Crap … it’s almost 1:30pm. I haven’t even eaten yet. I’ve been so absorbed in getting this new blog up and running. And I need to get tabs for my car today too (better do it before I forget). But I definitely wanna get this up and running … fully customized … before the end of the week. I won’t have as much time to work on it starting next week since I start a new job on Monday … I’ll talk more about that here later. Otherwise you can find info on it at my old blog.

Mood: hungry