http://www.otscripts.com Industrial strength techniques for working with online software Wed, 30 May 2007 12:11:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the best editorial practices I know is to have a checklist for yourself. I enjoy writing Reality TV articles, and so have created this list of suggestions for making your article as usable as possible. I assume you already know how to write! These guidelines are to help ... http://www.otscripts.com/2006/04/15/syndication-style-guide/ I changed TNG so that I can write out text that's intended to introduce the person or family. I use event type 'Introduction', and type the text into that event's notes. I edited the style sheet to add class .introduction. I edited getperson.php to catch and display the event. I edited personlib.php to ... http://www.otscripts.com/2006/04/12/add-introductory-text-to-individual/ TNG chokes on a family where the parents are unknown and unknown, RID of 0 and 0. mkdesc.pl reports the problem, so clean it up and re-import the gedcom file into TNG. http://www.otscripts.com/2006/04/10/family-record-with-no-spouses/ It's pretty easy to add a new function. I added desc_toc.php, and linked it in index.php and topmenu.html. To be done properly, I should have added the menu text to English/text.php. In this case I'm simply including an html page which will be generated by an outside perl script. I miss ... http://www.otscripts.com/2006/04/10/add-new-function/ In TNG, you can browse the 'photos' subfolder on the server, to pick up the photo and thumbnail of interest. A symbolic link to the coppermine/albums folder works nicely. When the time comes, a symlink to the albums/genealogy/headstones folder should work for headstones. The result is that the original import into ... http://www.otscripts.com/2006/04/09/symbolic-link-to-coppermine-area/ See the writeup on the output buffer function here: Buffering output in the wordpress wiki. In my case, I have pages which are basically "table of contents pages" for the subpages. So, I'm enhancing the general page template to collect the list of subpages (if any). And then, if there ARE any ... http://www.otscripts.com/2006/04/09/using-the-buffer-output-function-in-wordpress/ The file ads.php needs to have the variable burninr changed to revvedup so that the top sidebar ads display. I've notified the author. http://www.otscripts.com/2006/04/08/edits-to-revvedup-theme-code/ This technote shows you how to add another RSS (syndication) feed to your WordPress site. We begin by reorganizing your categories to take advantage of the new feed. We then set up the new feed in such a way that this feed’s material can be moved to an entirely new ... http://www.otscripts.com/2006/03/29/add-another-syndication-feed-to-your-site-part-b/ I tend to write technotes which have nothing to do with the main purpose of the site. There are times that, for someone watching my main syndication feed, these technical notes push the main content out of view! Thanks to FeedBurner.com, I can create a quick interim solution, and be ... http://www.otscripts.com/2006/03/28/add-another-syndication-feed-to-your-site-part-a/ For most sites, a single syndication (RSS) feed makes the most sense. WordPress makes syndication literally a snap, and Feedburner adds tremendous value. In fact, Feedburner makes it even easier! Of course you already know this, or you wouldn’t be reading this article. For some sites, it makes more sense to ... http://www.otscripts.com/2006/03/28/multiple-feedburnercom-syndication-feeds-in-wordpress-part-a/