A few blog changes
We’ve decided to change to a simpler theme designed to use all the lastest features in WordPress. We hope it meets with your approval.
If you have any problems with it, please leave feedback here.
Women, feminism, and geek culture
We’ve decided to change to a simpler theme designed to use all the lastest features in WordPress. We hope it meets with your approval.
If you have any problems with it, please leave feedback here.
Catherine:
August 1st, 2012 at 8:50 am
I’m seeing “Comment Policy” in the main nav on two lines. Maybe add whitespace: nowrap; to #access li?
NP:
August 1st, 2012 at 10:03 am
The “Leave a Reply” box is so unnecessarily huge that I right now, I can’t even see the comment above mine. Is there any way to push the boxes closer together?
tigtog:
August 1st, 2012 at 2:45 pm
I’ve add to the stylesheet, thanks. What browser was that happening in?
tigtog:
August 1st, 2012 at 2:50 pm
I’ll look into what tweaks can be made to the theme defaults without breaking anything.
AMM:
August 2nd, 2012 at 1:29 pm
I just found out that the change in the “look” of the site was intentional. Fine with me, I’ll just need to find my way around in it.
One issue: the “Featured Post” has some sort of white object, right under the words “Featured Post”, which covers up the left hand side of the post. In my browser (Firefox 2.0.0.1 for Linux), the title I can see is “k Feminism”. The left side of the text is also covered.
I can read the text by doing “view page source,” like I have to do to read the mouse-overs in xkcd (obl. geekiness), but it _is_ a bit of a pain….
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tekanji:
August 3rd, 2012 at 1:29 am
Is there any way you could implement a mobile version of this site? I swear the old incarnation had one, but this one doesn’t seem to (or at least I was unable to find a way to switch to it). I ask because the layout is semi-broken on my iPhone (which is the main way I read the blog).
tigtog:
August 3rd, 2012 at 1:31 am
AMM, I’ll look into what’s going on there. Any chance of sending a screenshot to me (username at gmail)?
tigtog:
August 3rd, 2012 at 1:32 am
I thought we had a mobile version plugin too. I’ll go see where it’s got to.
tekanji:
August 3rd, 2012 at 5:19 pm
Thanks. This theme tries to be mobile friendly, but it just makes everything hard to read :(
H.Regalis:
August 8th, 2012 at 8:47 am
Same. The content looks fine but the menu bar and header are getting jumbled together; it looks like this: http://screencast.com/t/r0P2r4bi
tigtog:
August 8th, 2012 at 1:19 pm
Hi, thanks for commenting to nudge me from my current brain-fog. I will get a mobile theme sorted out within 24 hours.
Russell Coker:
August 9th, 2012 at 8:34 pm
Would it be possible to provide an option to change the way the comments are displayed? The current setup works well if you have a reasonable size display and the comments aren’t threaded too deep. But on a phone once the comments get a few levels deep it goes to one word per line which is really hard to read.
tigtog:
August 9th, 2012 at 10:05 pm
The mobile theme has just been enabled – I hope it handles the comments in a more friendly fashion.
tekanji:
August 10th, 2012 at 8:53 pm
I don’t know if I’ the only one having this problem, but the mobile theme only displays an empty post called “front” and not any of the actual posts.
AMM:
August 12th, 2012 at 6:34 am
1. The main page does not have a “previous” link (or if it does, I couldn’t find it.) The archive pages do, but on my browser, it overprints something else — it looks like a bad “captcha”.
2. The “archives” menu doesn’t do anything unless you have JavaScript enabled. (I usually run with JavaScript off because so many websites are unusably slow with JavaScript on.)
3. Entering a reply with JavaScript on is annoyingly slow – there is a very perceptable delay between keypress and screen response (as much as a second sometimes.) Granted, it’s better than some websites, where it may be 5-10 seconds, but I still find a “preview” button much easier to use than real-time formatting.
pfctdayelise:
August 14th, 2012 at 11:57 pm
The current style doesn’t encourage exploring the archives. The only way to get to tags or categories is through existing posts. An archive that you can only access via the month is of limited use IMO.
Oh wait, I just found there is a tag cloud on the 404 page! And the search results. That’s rather random.
There seems to be only 7 items per page when you do search which means a lot of paging, given how “generous” the search is (matches part-words, eg “mode” matches “model”)
Some old posts seem to have mangled punctuation, like smart quotes gone wrong. e.g. It could have always been like this, or it could be my browser or something, I dunno.
Mary:
August 15th, 2012 at 12:09 am
The mangled character encodings seem to be an artefact of a database dump and reload from some time back, we’re trying to get some roundtuits to fix it.
Mary:
August 15th, 2012 at 12:16 am
There’s an open comment box at the bottom of every post, including posts with closed comments.
tigtog:
August 15th, 2012 at 12:48 am
My apologies for not responding earlier – apparently WP decided to stop sending me notifications of replies sometime last week.
I’ll look into it.
tigtog:
August 15th, 2012 at 12:54 am
AMM,
1. That’s because we’re using the Twenty Eleven showcase page as the front page. Maybe we need to rethink that.
2. Having JavaScript off is also why you’re having problems with the drop-down menu overwriting the top of the post area. If we don’t use the JavaScript to nest those items, they take up way too much screen space as a list. I’m not sure there’s a good way around that.
3. I’ll look into non-JavaScript preview button options.
tigtog:
August 15th, 2012 at 1:03 am
I’ve rejigged so that the tag cloud is on the front page, and there’s now 10 items per page.
tigtog:
August 15th, 2012 at 1:06 am
That seems a rather bizarre omission on the part of the base theme coders. I will seek explanations.
pfctdayelise:
August 15th, 2012 at 7:17 am
yay, thanks!