1. Nick Ramsay Said,

   The Nipponster homepage looks to be working fine now.

   I think I know where you’re going with “interview chat”. One of the strengths of Prologue is its project-based tags so people can choose particular projects/topics/interviews to follow. I hope it works for you. On the JapanSoc blog, there’s a tendency to treat the “topic” as “tags”, which kind of defeats the purpose.

   For example, let’s say the topic is “promo video”. Everybody interested in that topic should do this:

   Topic: promo video

   Unfortunately, this is more common:

   Topic: video, youtube, promo, funny, clip

   If done correctly, you can subscribe to a “promo video” RSS feed, but if people use tags instead, what do you subscribe to?

   I must try and address this at some point…

   Anyway, I’m looking forward to seeing “interview chat” go live.

2. The Chemist Said,

   You’re right about the interview chat. One of the main topics I want to have is a suggested interview topic, so that people can mention interviews they think would be interesting.
   There are probably many other possibilities too. I have more brainstorming to do.

   About the “topics” vs “tags” problem: I was thinking… if you changed the admin panel to say “topics” instead of “tags” that would maybe clear things up.
   It took some file searching but I found the file you need to edit.
   wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php

   Inside of that file search for “tags” and you’ll find a bit of code that says < ?php _e('Tags');?>
   So then you can just change that ‘tags’ to anything you like (like topics) and maybe put an explanation next to it.

3. Nick Ramsay Said,

   You had me scratching my head there for a second. I changed the words on the submit form that registered users see on the index page, but you’re talking about changing the wording within Admin itself. Thanks for tracking down the file (i do appreciate the time it took!), but technically, with Prologue anyway, users shouldn’t need to go into Admin because they can just post their thoughts directly from the front page.

   I might still implement your suggestion (perhaps after the upcoming WP2.7 upgrade), but the topic vs tags issue is probably more relevant to your Prologue site since discussion will revolve around particular sites/interviews.

   How’s it progressing?

4. The Chemist Said,

   but technically, with Prologue anyway, users shouldn’t need to go into Admin because they can just post their thoughts directly from the front page.

   Right. But when a user logs in it takes them to the dashboard…
   So I was thinking that maybe some of the people that are submitting wrong topics (tags instead of topics) might be submitting them from the dashboard. But I might be wrong about that.

5. Nick Ramsay Said,

   But when a user logs in it takes them to the dashboard

   … unless their browser keeps them permanently logged in.

   But, no, I’m just making excuses like the lazy blogger I am!

6. The Chemist Said,

   “You lazy blogger, you” -says the pot to the kettle.

   Their browser can keep them logged in, but better to cover both cases, right?

Add A Comment