I just installed a new wordpress plugin for footnotes1. It uses a simple markup2 around the footnote text, and will degrade somewhat gracefully (by having the footnote text inline) if the plugin stops working.
Nice and simple. Now to consider styling (or not) the footnote markers…. Nah. Too much effort on a nice Saturday.
I’ve reset the post.php to its intended form (well, kinda — I only commented out the stuff I added in, just in case).
Let’s see how long it takes. Uh. Faster, but not working…
(oops, forgot to uncomment the php call that feeds the iframe)
There! All better. Though I wish I’d had some warning about this.
I commented out the admin stuff that generates the live preview, and replaced it with the old-style preview. Hopefully it’ll be a little faster to generate the draft. (edit: it is)
Also, I’ve turned off my one plugin (Auto Close Comments) to see if *that* makes any difference.
I’ve tried looking around the WP support forum, but it’s really broken. I can’t ever seem to find anything I’m looking for. But I caught a glimpse of something that might be useful — apparently there should be a cache folder somewhere in my WP directory, which I don’t seem to have.
I’ve posted in the forum — here’s hoping that someone will be able to help me figure it out.
Never mind. I do have a cache directory, and loading it up is what’s taking so freakin’ long. I just keep pushing all the archive buttons and eventually it’ll all be almost-fast 
Maybe I’ll try the live preview thingy again… it is kinda cool. And I wonder if somebody has made a nicer CSS for the admin pages…
I’ve updated the Rock Pile to the latest Wordpress.
Not quite sure I like the gooeyness of the Write Post page. It seems, well, galumphy, like I ought to be using a fat pencil.
Lemme know if you experience any problems. You shouldn’t — most of the changes are behind the scenes…
*some time later*
Is it me, or is the live preview thingy fucking slow? I pushed “Save and Continue Editing” about 2 and a half minutes ago, and it still hasn’t completed loading. How do I turn that off?
*More later*
Every &**($#^ page is fucking slow. What’s up with that? And searching the support forums is less than useless, because even if I find some thread that might be useful, the links are broken!
*and still later*
I’ve edited the post.php to use the old code, instead of the iframe crap function.
Who’s got the comment?
I’ve put in a plugin to auto-close comments after a few weeks, as I have been getting spamments on really really old posts.
I’m not quite sure how it works, though, ’cause after I activated it, the comments were still open on the older posts. Perhaps I need to actually post something?
[edit: yup -- it fires when I publish or edit a post]
