Apr 02, 2005

New asisaid Features

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 7:00 AM

I've added some new stuff tonight. Now, you can use any of the smilies supported by WordPress on my blog (I shamelessly borrowed the graphics and related material out of WordPress so that SAFARI could do this :twisted: ). I borrowed JavaScript code from Alex King's wp_grins so that you can simply click the smilies of your choice below the comment box.

You'll also notice a new “others said here” section on the side (to be distinguished from the old “others said” section that is now known as “others said elsewhere”). The two links there will take you to a “forum view” that shows the blog posts that have the most comments and the most recently commented blog posts. The latter differs from typical “recent comments” sections on blogs in that it does not list every new comment individually, but instead shows the posts that have been commented on, rather like the way phpBB shows topics that have new replies. This insures that one busy post won't hide activity on less busy posts; this is not usually a problem, but keep in mind I'm designing SAFARI to work on bigger things than asisaid. The inspiration of using a forum view for this comes from Kevin's blog from long ago that was based on phpBB — I always liked that concept.

Give the new features a whirl and let me know what you think. :mrgreen:

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6 comments posted so far.

Re: New asisaid Features

Too many options :shock: I mean what’s a person to do :?: :?: I don’t know whether to be happy :smile: , angry :mad: or confused :???: No matter what, I don’t think the little icons are working.

:razz:

Posted by Mark - Apr 02, 2005 | 2:57 PM- Location: MA

Re: New asisaid Features

Upgrade! :razz:

Very nice and quite luxurious.

You know it too me forever to figure out the difference between this smilie -> :twisted: and this smilie -> :evil:

So can you add smilies to wp-grins?

Posted by Christopher - Apr 02, 2005 | 6:02 PM- Location: MO

Re: New asisaid Features

Mark: Options are good. Of course too many options may mean no one ever finishes their comments… :roll:

Christopher: Thanks! :grin: I didn’t get the difference between :twisted: and :evil: for awhile either…

Concerning adding smilies, I can do so relatively easily, and in fact, I think I may improve it a bit so I can just import the big phpBB smilies pack (or maybe not, that may be overkill). Thus far, the little bar of smilies below is not dynamically generated here (although it will be), but in the case of wp-grins, it is dynamically generated, so I think it may be easy to add smilies to WordPress. I can give you some :idea: ’s on how to do it if you’d like.

Posted by Timothy R. Butler - Apr 02, 2005 | 6:14 PM- Location: MO

Re: New asisaid Features

Yes please. :mrgreen:

Posted by Christopher - Apr 02, 2005 | 6:29 PM- Location: MO

Smilie Haiku

:twisted: :arrow: :evil: :idea: :sad:

:grin: :oops: :razz: :shock: :mrgreen: :lol: :wink:

:neutral: :???: :smile: :!: :cool:

Posted by kevin - Apr 02, 2005 | 8:44 PM- Location: Milwaukie, OR

Re: New asisaid Features

Christopher: In “wp-includes/vars.php,” you will find a list a bit of the way down the file of smiles in single quotes followed by an arrow like thing (=>) followed by the smily file name in single quotes. If you mimic this style, you can add more smilies and then just place the image files in “wp-images/smilies/”

Kevin: That’s very nice… a unique haiku! :-)

Posted by Timothy R. Butler - Apr 03, 2005 | 6:42 AM- Location: MO