Fluxed

New features added to Waveflux

It came to me recently that a dedicated contact page would serve blog readers (and me) much better than a simple mailto link. Contact pages are clear and terribly professional-looking, or so I’m told. Replacing a mail link also provides me with a bit of security; one less place where harvesters can scrape up my email address (even though I’d pretty well munged my address, it’s better to remove it altogether). After trying a couple of options, I decided on the richly-featured cforms II plugin from Oliver Siedel. Works well in testing. Access this page by clicking the Contact link at the top right of each page.

I finally got around to implementing a couple of features that came bundled with The Morning After, the excellent layout theme in use here: legible printing of posts is now available here, as is convenient emailing of same. These features may be accessed via the print and email icons located in the byline of each individual post. Thanks to Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan for the great plugins.

A brief word about accessibility: I chose the cforms contact page plugin in part because it allows for a text-based, question-and-answer challenge to weed out bot spammers, as opposed to an image verification challenge. This allows sight-impaired visitors to use the feature. Lester’s email plugin, quite fine in all other respects, uses image verification, which is obviously a barrier to the sight-impaired. I will ask Lester if it’s all possible to implement a text-based alternative.

I also added the traditional “previous” and “next” (think of them as “adjacent,” as I do) links to the end of each post.

And…I created a second slot under Highlighted on the home page so that the two most recent posts in the Highlighted subcategories - Consumed, Fluxed, Perused, Scribbled, and Viewed - would appear. One slot seemed like not enough; more than two seemed too many. So, ah, two.

Anything else? Some boring security stuff which wouldn’t interest you in the least, I’m sure.

I’ll close this with a brief public service announcement guised as irritating brag and boast: I upgrade WordPress each time a new version is made available. I perform the manual upgrade, which really isn’t hard at all. And I back up this weblog every day. These are habits that all bloggers should adopt, unless they really don’t like their blogs. Just sayin’.

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