i know this is for wordpress stuff… but hey, why not for the site as a whole? i mean i have machinations…

i’ve started learning AJAX to get some nifty features going. I want to make RSS on the front page, perhaps even to add in off site blogs from members.

the other is to link the PHPbb and wordpress logins, wouldn’t it be nice to just have one for each?

the last is top secret.

since, as you see below, i’ve opened up to non-logged in comments, i’ve added in captcha to decrease the chance of spam.

http://recaptcha.net/

this captcha, it so has it, is also used to help translate books from OCR to a real digitized version. so everytime it is used, good things are happening.

that being said, welcome to the first real issue i’ve had with this software. there are two things wrong with this plugin.

1. first, this plugin doesn’t seem to be happy with the MU install in one aspect. it won’t keep the settings. luckily the only settings are the private and public keys, which i simply hard-coded in. first problem fixed.

2. second, this plugin and certain themes don’t like each other. at all. so far this is all i know for sure. something about the changes some themers are making to the comments page makes the recaptcha code just not show up. as an imediate work around one can install the comments php from the default theme into the theme they are using and it will work. i plan to take a look and see if i can mod the plugin, rather than fix each theme as i install it.

per request, i have figured out how to have non-logged in members post. it is under your general options.

so i want RSS for the whole MU install… here is a plug-in that does it

http://www.itdamager.com/plugins/wpmu-sitewide-feed/

ironically this blog is not included on that list… so yeah.

edit: if the blog is not ‘public’ then it will not show up on this feed.

feed link: http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/?wpmu-feed=posts

now i just need at that RSS graphic…

so here is a test, can i put something on my blog…

ps.  i live with that cat

ok, needed to add youtube support and the ability to put amazon book links on. think i found both:

anarchy player:
http://an-archos.com/anarchy-media-player/#download

amazon books:
http://www.sozu.co.uk/software/amm/ (unsupported)

sidebar: http://www.aaronforgue.com/projects/amazon-showcase

so i found a dashboard widget to post onto wordpress… think it will work? let us find out together.

if so, here is link
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/blogs_forums/wordpressdash.html