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As discussed last night, I ran all the public pages through the auto post summary generator (it just takes the first seven words of each post that doesn't already have a post summary, strips out any HTML tags, and inserts them, followed by '...', as the new post summary.) You can use this on your page if you want by invoking the URL:
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/system/post_summary_fix.php?ppath=/some_path
where '/some_path' is an actual path to a page that you own (like /treehouse, or /arboretum, or /schwarz.)
This will not overwrite any existing post summaries. You will see a printed list of all the new summaries it has inserted when you run that script.
There was a problem very recently (thanks/sorry Dave, Linda) where if you needed to log in you were met with error messages and no way to proceed. This wasn't really a bug, but just a case of a script file becoming corrupted. Should be working now.
Dave had a suggestion to make the bottom menu bar less complicated. This turned out to be easier than I thought it would. You should no longer see options that are not valid for you on a given page (you don't see [post] if you can't post; don't see [editpage] if you can't edit that page, etc...) This is just the sort of issueI have a hard time identifying: What? It's not all perfectly clear?
Fixed a big problem with pending posts. Fixed a small problem with the email to weblog bridge. There still might be an issue there if a lot of people tried to use it at once. Not sure though. Hard to test. Probably we won't use it here very much, so I might have to wait to find out how it does under load.
In making the new email posting capability (see last post) I created some of those never clearing 'new posts' for everybody. So I cleared everybodies unread posts for this page. Possibly you missed some actual real posts. You might want to lookback if you are coming here from [1 new post].
Seems like this new email to web connection is a little rough around the edges. I'll keep working on it. Thrilled to have gotten this far though.
Now if only I had a blackberry.
You can now post to any page you have permission to post to by sending an email to autopost@digitalmediatree.comThe subject line must be the path of the page, so for instance, I made thesubject of this email: /systemnewsNote the preceding slash, but no trailing slash.The body of the message must start with three stars, then your password(case sensitive) then three more starts. For instance:
***fdFEA42w3w9***
Then skip a line if you want (not necessary) and write your post. Yourpassword, of course, won't show up on your page.IMPORTANT: Don't send HTML encoded email. You can use HTML (like <br> or <i> or whatever) like you usually do when posting from the web, but don'tuse this email posting feature yet if you aren't sure that your emailprogram sends plaintext email.
If you can read this, it worked!
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OK, you can now delete pictures (one at a time) from the bottom of the upload page. You can only delete your own photos.
Well, instead of doing the real work on the picture upload system I built a random picture grabber instead. Where /getpic/502 gets you picture number 502, /randpic/502/503 gets you (randomly) either picture 502 or 503. There is no limit to how many picture numbers you can use. So /randpic/502/544/545/811/191/1032/777 gets you one of those 7 pictures. Each time the page is reloaded it picks another random image from that list. It doesn't check for repeats, so possibly it will fetch the same picture two (or more) times in a row.
Also, it doesn't matter what else is in the URL as long as /randpic/xxx/xxx/xxx is at the end (so digitalmedaitree.com/randpic/1/2/3 is the same as digitalmediatree.com/jim/weblog/randpic/1/2/3)