Roaming Gamer

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I’m currently upgrading Wordpress(++) and fixing all the little nits that inevitably come up. Right now I’m struggling with some odd devformatter and geshi issues.

It turns out the problem I’ve been experiencing was a bad plugin “Developer Formatter“.  It wasn’t playing well with 2.8+ which may be my fault, but for now I’m happy to just turn it off. Of course, now I have to go fix any posts that used it, grumble…grumble…

For those who have had the misfortune to have been coming to my site and following my progress over the last few days, I must apologize.  It has been and continues to be a mess.  You might say I’m still stuck in my ways.  I remain committed to changing to a blog-based approach, but must admit to being stuck in the ’static-pages’ mentality.

The good news is:

• Although I’m no expert yet, I do understand the fundamentals and more of WordPress.
• I am just beginning to grasp the value of ‘Categories’ and ‘Tags’. 
• I am over the “try a new theme” urge and ready to buckle down and start doing the hard work of making a theme of my own, well mostly (see Artisteer below).
• I’ve settled on a set of plugins that I like and find useful.
• I have content to release, I just need to figure out the best way to release it so it doesn’t jump all over the place.  Some of the upcoming content includes:
  • Torque Script Tool Kit - A collection of utility scripts I’ve written and improved over the years.  I know you’ll find this useful if you use any of the Torque engines.
  • A Boatload of Resources for TGB – I’ve got a ton of resources for TGB, include some add-on tools (for the level editor), behaviors, and content packs.
  • Old notes from GDC 2009.  Believe it or not, I still have a bunch of unreleased notes from this year’s GDC.
  • First installment in the “Roaming Gamer: Make a Game” Series - OK, this isn’t entirely done, but its very close and I’m really excited about it.

As I mentioned above, I’m getting ready to buckle down and make a theme of my own.  As part of this process I’ll be using the template design tool Artisteer.  This is a handy visual tool that allows you to generate and then tweak a large number of settings and options.  Once you (or I in this case) finish with the tweaking, its time to start hacking the CSS and PHP to get those last few changes/enhancement in and then viola, custom theme complete!  Certainly, the tool doesn’t do every possible one might want, but I’m very impressed with what it does provide.  I’m sure the investment will be well worth the time it saves me.
Well, that’s all for now!

Cheers,

edo

For anyone visiting over the next few days, I must apologize for the constant theme changes that are occurring.

I’m playing around with the themes feature of WordPress and looking for the best theme for my needs.

Note: I’ve noticed a bit of slowness sometimes while opening pages.  If you notice slowness, feel free to post a response to this post.

Thanks Everyone,

edo