I’ve hit a few snags over the course of the past two weeks and decided to make some enhancements to make myself feel better.

First, the snags:

I was so angry with the performance and hassle of Windows Vista that I decided to switch to Windows 7. After reinstalling all of my old software and getting everything set the way it was in Vista, I proceeded to hack Windows 7 the same way I hacked Vista. Unfortunately, that didn’t work, so I ended up with an OS that crashed every 26 seconds when I tried to empty the recycle bin. As much fun as that was, I figured I should reinstall Windows 7 to fix the damage I had done. When that didn’t work, I blindly reformatted and reinstalled from scratch. As it turns out, I’m an idiot, and I forgot to save a copy of the PocketPress source code. I lost everything. So, now, I’m going to have to start PocketPress from scratch – and this pisses me off a little.

And now, the enhancements:

The comments on Tango Smileys Extended are several pages long now, so I find myself answering the same questions over and over. Since comments are obviously not the best way to offer support, I’ve decided to add a support forum. I’m working on adding some basic topics to the forum, and I’ll add a link later.

I would like to start by apologizing to everyone who requested assistance with TSE during my absence these last 17 days. An unfortunate turn of events took place on March 12th that left me without a computer and internet access until today. A capacitor decided to explode on my motherboard and took my northbridge with it. (Yes, it decided to explode. It was conspiring against me.)

I just finished building my new computer and getting the basics installed, and this post is the first thing I’ve decided to do before continuing with setting up the rest of the computer.

Now, to the problems at hand:

The issue that people are having with the CTI for Tango Smileys Extended is partly my fault in the wording I used to explain how to insert the CTI into the comments.php file. Here is the better explained way to add the CTI to your comments.php file:

1. Open your comments.php file.
2. Find the comment textarea, which should look something like <textarea name="comment" id="comment"></textarea>
3. If you want the CTI smileys above the textarea, type
   <?php tse_cti_anywhere(); ?> before the textarea.
4. If you want the CTI smileys below the textarea, type
   <?php tse_cti_anywhere(); ?> after the textarea.
5. Save your comments.php file.

The extra stuff that I listed in my original instructions was for people who wanted to use the CTI smileys with other plugins, and is not needed to add the CTI smileys to the comments.

Hope this helps!

I’ve decided on the new theme I’m going to use, but it still needs some minor editing to get it where I want it. So, please be patient as things start to look strange, as I’m working on getting it all sorted out.

Thanks!

I’ve had a heavy feeling about the way my theme has turned out, and I’ve finally decided that I do not like it. Well, I don’t like the flow of it. I think I’ll spend the next few days looking for another theme and just modifying it to fit instead of making my own. I know I’ll have a great idea and put a lot of work into it, only to dislike it later, and that’s just not worth the effort to me.

I’m getting ready to apply a new theme, so by the time anyone reads this it will already be done.

Please note that this theme is a work-in-progress, so I expect some things to be broken. You do not need to comment, since I’m probably aware of what’s wrong before you hit the submit button. Thank you anyway!

Also, since the sidebar has changed, I am also rearranging the widgets and adding a few custom ones that I developed while working on this theme. If things look different from one pageload to another, don’t be alarmed.

My appologies to anyone who visited in the past 12 hours. I updated WP-Sticky, but didn’t check to make sure it worked. Unfortunately, it corrupted my post display, so I reverted to the previous version which worked just fine.