Category Archives: Meta

Video test

Chickens, Meta

As a test of video embedding, a time lapse animation of 24 hours in the chicken box:

[flashvideo filename=”http://www.houseofcranks.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/20080525.flv” /]

Looks like (after switching to a better flvplayer plugin) it works. Hooray!

Site to-do list

Meta, ,

I just got a notice that the domain registration is coming due on houseofcranks, which means it’s been almost a year and we haven’t done anything with it. With all the happenings here at the House of Cranks this year, it may be time to remedy that. So I wiped and reinstalled WordPress. I’m still working out what plugins/themes I want, but here’s a running summary as I go along:

Plugins

  • Star Ratings – lets us add ratings, like this:
    [rating:3.5]
  • Gravatars2 – gives us user avatars in the comments
  • WordPress Flickr Manager – easy integration with Flickr
    Although I’m not sure how it’s going to work when both Cam and I have Flickr accounts. Maybe we’ll have to make a group pool for cranks stuff.

To do:

  • Cross-posting. It’d be nice to either syndicate posts from sculpin and elsewhere or cross-post entries from here to there. There doesn’t appear to be a wp to wp crossposter yet, though. Weird.
  • Mobile/accessible theme
    Installed WordPress Mobile Edition, still have to check accessibility.
  • Comment subscription via email. People actually seem to use it at elsewhere, so… *shrug*
  • del.icio.us/twitter sidebar?
  • Paged comments? I don’t know if that’ll be possible with k2, or if it’s even going to be a problem.

Functionality

To do:

  • Wiki for garden notes?
  • Cookbook?
  • Amazon affiliate thing for crank-powered items?
  • What else?