The Crawling ChaosOfficial Website

The planned update has been successful. If only everything were this easy :-)

I’ve added a much better search function to the site(s) which appears right at the bottom (so just hit “End” on the keyboard and a user will go straight there). I’ve set it to search virtually ALL data fields in the database. The previous built-in search just searched posts so didn’t provide decent research facilities. It’s the work of Dan Cameron mainly and is available here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-everything I had to turn off the Jerome bit as it just popped SQL garbage up all over the screen. Once that was done it works fine. Let’s see what happens when WP is updated…

All I have to do now is get a better theme worked out using more columns for all the widgets and plugins I’ve got! More to follow as well.

I’ve added a couple of widget things to see what they feel like. One pops up a little page preview and the other is a chat facility. Currently I’m just talking amongst myself, are you? No I’m not.

But you know… It may be of value somehow. I’m of the opinion that everything is a benefit. If there’re any problems they’re easy enough to take off and if the chat gets abused or my bandwidth suffers then I can easily allow it for registerees only. Speaking of which, the numbers are going up. I like this way of doing things; people have to make a genuine positive effort to get involved. Not like myspace (my pet hate – hey! that’s a good name) which is just a bit like click here to vote – like der..

However, I think I need a different wordpress theme, a nice 3-4 column job. I’ll still do it in green and gold because I like it, but I’ve too much stuff to get out and the layout is a bit restricting whilst not providing all the functionality I require. I know there are ways to get the major posts centrally while allowing a non-interactive front page, so I’ll look into it.