Daily Archives: Tuesday, 29th April 2008
Weight Report – 29 April 2008
Ooooh! Today’s weight is back down from yesterday’s unexpected bloat to something a little closer to acceptability. Still heavier than I want to be, but at least it’s a fluctuation in the right direction.
I didn’t walk to work, but I did have a walk around after work before going to the Sage Gateshead to see Billy Bragg. I’ll do a report on the show later – probably tomorrow.
WordPress 2.5 – An Oddness
I’ll do a more general post later about my WordPress 2.5 likes and dislikes, but this one had me wondering for a while. This picture shows part of the sidebar on the write page[1]. It shows information about when the post currently being edited was last saved, either automagically, or manually. Except it doesn’t. Every other part of the interface takes notice of the “time offset” setting – this is where you set your own time zone so that things are displayed in your own time rather than the time on the server[2] or just standard UTC[3]. All very good.
But for some reason this one slipped past testing[4] – rather than displaying the correct user-set time (which would be correct) or UTC (which would make at least some kind of sense), it’s showing the local time on the server. I didn’t recall reading about this, so I did a bit of searching. I found one post on the WordPress Support Forum reporting it, but there were no replies. Soooo, it looks like a bug. And where do you check for WordPress bugs? Trac, that’s where.
So I did a search of Trac, and found that this had been logged under this ticket, so it should be fixed in the next release. It’s only a minor irritation, and once you know what it’s doing, it’s not all that confusing. It does have a slight side-effect, but I’ll talk about that in the context of the feature it affects in that more general post that will follow later in the week.
[1] Which is still not my favourite part of the new interface…
[2] My server is in California. I’m not, so this would be a little confusing
[3] That woulnd’t be so bad – for about half the year, it’s correct, and it’s only one hour out now
[4] It certainly passed mine, as I was testing on my own computer, which is in the same time zone I am, oddly enough
Wavatars Revisited
It was only about a week ago that I added those funky Wavatar thingies to Losing it[1]. At the time, I mentioned that as I was still using WordPress 2.3.3, I had to use a separate plugin to make the little beasties appear. Well, now that I’ve upgraded, I have waved a fond goodbye to the plugin, and added the magic bit of code to my comments loop code.
I took the opportunity to fiddle with the CSS a bit, and now Gravatars and Wavatars will appear without an extra border around them, which makes them fit the comments box a bit better. One interesting thing – for reasons best known to the Automattic guys, the Gravatar implementation of Wavatars uses a different calculation than that used by the plugin, so everyone gets a different identity now. If you have commented before and don’t have a Gravatar, take a look at the post you commented on[1] to see your lovely new face.
[1] Or just add a comment here if you like. And remember that each email address gets a different Wavatar
