I decided to get ambitious this morning and I went through and added some cool stuff to the site. First, I’ve got a new contact form you can use to send me a message. I’m not really expecting much to come of it, but hey, it’s there. Thanks to One Woman Show for the plugin.
Next, you’ll notice there’s a section in the sidebar showing recent comments and trackbacks. This one is also kind of useless because no one actually leaves comments, but maybe that will change one day. Thanks to Krischan Jodies for this one.
The last and probably coolest change is that I’m now able to use Lightbox to display (some) photos. To see it in action, try clicking on one of the thumbnails in a post below.
Edit: I almost forgot – a little while back I fixed my flickr integration so you should be able to see all of that again at /photos/. (I lied – some combination of FAlbum and/or flickr is being a pain in the ass.) Eventually I’d like to put a button on my nifty toolbar up there, but since this is a part of my latest theme, I have to figure out how to hack it first. Also, this doesn’t use Lightbox; I’m not sure how complicated that will be.
Edit 2: I also wrote a few posts over the last year that I never posted for whatever reason. Their now sprinkled around in the archive on the appropriate dates, mostly from our honeymoon last February.
Er… I’m confused… What were you trying to do with the photos?
Well it depends on what you’re referring to. If you click on one of the posts below that has pictures (Magic Bullets or ORD) you should see a nice effect where the background is grayed out and the picture is displayed full size. It’s called Lightbox. The other thing I was trying to do was get my flickr account and pictures integrated with the site. I used a WordPress plugin called FAlbum to do it in the past, but I upgraded some things and forgot to reinstall it. I fixed things so they were working again a few weeks ago, but now it’s broken again.
So maybe I’ve been a little hard on FAlbum. After glancing at the flickr forums it sounds like there have been lots of issues with flickr over the past few days. Perhaps FAlbum isn’t to blame after all.
Now that all photo stuff is up and running, are you going to be adding any wedding pics and apartment pics and thanksgiving pics and vegas pics and … to the site? (I just like being difficult)
Well I think the flickr integration is only sort of working at this point, but I am planning to put up some new photos soon. You’re not the first person to ask me about wedding pictures this week.