Mr. Legs, I have no idea what hand-coding is and most likely don't want to.rubberlegs said:
The geographical location page is A LOT of work that I need to catch up on.
Thanks for letting me know you use it and appreciate the work.
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The geographical location page is A LOT of work that I need to catch up on.
Thanks for letting me know you use it and appreciate the work.
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Hand coding is very simple (just kidding):
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<p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px">Mr. Legs, I have no idea what hand-coding is and most likely don't want to. <img src="https://www.wanderthewest.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.png" class="bbc_emoticon" alt=":)" /></span></span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px"> </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px">The geographical location page is <strong>A LOT</strong> of work that I need to catch up on. <img src="https://www.wanderthewest.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.png" class="bbc_emoticon" alt=":)" /></span></span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px"> </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px">Thanks for letting me know you use it and appreciate the work.</span></span></p>
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HTML?
That's a foreign language to me.rubberlegs said:Hand coding is very simple (just kidding):
<p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px">Mr. Legs, I have no idea what hand-coding is and most likely don't want to. <img src="https://www.wanderthewest.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.png" class="bbc_emoticon" alt="
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<p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px">The geographical location page is <strong>A LOT</strong> of work that I need to catch up on. <img src="https://www.wanderthewest.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.png" class="bbc_emoticon" alt="
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<p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px">Thanks for letting me know you use it and appreciate the work.</span></span></p>
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I have a hard enough time with English.
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Yes.buckland said:
buckland said:
Now do it in Assembly Code…rubberlegs said:
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NO thanks!! 25 years ago I was the first teacher in the district to have a class website...which was tediously put together by writing in HTML 'code' and as a beginner it was so painful.
I did rearrange all of my 3 trip blogs in reverse by post date and I was messing around with the layout section and I saw that one could also post the 'archive' posts (older ones) in verse order as an option. This is usually on the right sidebar. Here is a screenshot of the option:
I did rearrange all of my 3 trip blogs in reverse by post date and I was messing around with the layout section and I saw that one could also post the 'archive' posts (older ones) in verse order as an option. This is usually on the right sidebar. Here is a screenshot of the option:
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Here is a question for my next step. I have taken my three trip blogs (which should not have been created as separate individual blogs and want them to now be listed as a trip on the ONE main blog )I know how to import them to the new "Main Blog" I am creating. But what I need to know is ... each trip blog I bring in needs to be on a new PAGE? Or how done one keep them separated and listed is the side column as such? If I figure this out on my own eventually I promise to add here what I did for those that might have made man mistake.
Rob thanks for this latest bit of info.buckland said:
I think I'll give it a try.
Frank
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Futzing about in the effort to bring the three big trips' bogs into a Main Blog page. I may be hindered in achieving what I am trying to do because I have imported the three blogs into one new one and in so doing may have set it up differently than if I had started out and stayed with one. Hell if I know but I guess I have made progress on some goals. I intend eventually to really screw things up by attempting to migrate what I put together in Blogger into the Word Press blog platform (it is my nature to not be satisfied with a minor success... the whole enchilada or nothing!!). So here is how it has evolved into the new blog made from combining the three.
https://bucklandadventures.blogspot.com
https://bucklandadventures.blogspot.com
About the order in which posts appear on the blog (especially with multi part stories), this is why I started the "Our Stories" page. I direct visitors to this page as a click takes them to Part One and I include a link to the next part at the bottom of each part.
Rob, I once tried to put an extremely long story together (all the air mail beacons sites we've found in Nevada) and ran into an issue with how much data a single post will handle. I never found the answer but posting just stopped happening and turned into a bit of a mess. You may want to research this a bit.
Rob, I once tried to put an extremely long story together (all the air mail beacons sites we've found in Nevada) and ran into an issue with how much data a single post will handle. I never found the answer but posting just stopped happening and turned into a bit of a mess. You may want to research this a bit.
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Thanks Monte, I have been wondering about that as I have seen evidence that a a particular point thing are not loading right (and I have 1Gig fiber optic). I was wondering at what point the Blogger setup determines where to put a page break. Thanks also for the "Our Stories" concept... I went to visit the page and what happens?!... I spent an hour going from one story to another. Amazing amount of traveling. So many hikes! Remarkable. It makes a lot of sense to set it up like this so the blog orders one way but the Stories page allows for, as you said, a click right to the spot. One doesn't have to scroll down hunting. I was hoping the reversing of the post dates would cover that but it is not as good a solution. Definitely your idea makes it work better. I know when the snow flies I'll have more time to sit and try things...when the weather is good I try to be outside!
rubberlegs
back country campers
Those days are decades old... but I've been playing with JavaScript the past year. Amazing what you can do! At 66 years old I've been spending more time with my first torque wrench lately though.Wandering Sagebrush said:
Anyway, hopefully youse guys can figure out how to make WordPress or other blogger tools work for you. WordPress, which I used to use a lot, has numerous options and maybe there's a chat site like Wander the West that can help y'all out. Perhaps there's a way to reverse the sort order of your posts.
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I started a wordpress based blog in 2015 upon purchasing our first 4WC. (link in the signature) I did think about using the blogger platform, but was somewhat reluctant after seeing Google randomly doing away with various "experiments" (I still miss Google reader and Picasa) and was worried that if I didn't have ownership I might risk losing the work I put into it. So I purchased a domain and a hosting plan so I had more control or ownership of the content. I also wanted to learn how to set up a website, editing, etc. Fast forward to today and the "unlimited" storage plan I have had for years is slated to not be unlimited after the turn of the year. Ugh. I wish I had resized all my ginormous photos I've uploaded over the years that I didn't worry about because the hosting plan was unlimited! Now I need to find a new web host that allows for more storage or downsize the size of my website somehow. I've been working on photo compression, but it is still pretty huge, (translate: potentially very costly for hosting fees).
As for the timeline running backwards...I just always figured, that is how blogs worked, all blogs show the most recent post first and you go back from there, better sites have a timeline or a sidebar navigation so you can jump around. I had a timeline until the plugin I was using went out of date - so that is on the list of things to work on over the winter...maybe.
Anyway, interesting discussion here, so I thought I'd chime in. I can offer some wordpress insights for those that are curious, and I'm also interested in following along, as I am still thinking of website migrations and what the best solutions are for my storage problem.
As for the timeline running backwards...I just always figured, that is how blogs worked, all blogs show the most recent post first and you go back from there, better sites have a timeline or a sidebar navigation so you can jump around. I had a timeline until the plugin I was using went out of date - so that is on the list of things to work on over the winter...maybe.
Anyway, interesting discussion here, so I thought I'd chime in. I can offer some wordpress insights for those that are curious, and I'm also interested in following along, as I am still thinking of website migrations and what the best solutions are for my storage problem.
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We recently got a message from Bluehost that their unlimited plan will now be 10GB. Since my use of that site is hosting a bunch of maps, we are close to that limit with many thousands of map tiles, so the organization is coughing up for the 20GB more-expensive plan. Unlimited seemed like it was too good to be true... Anyway are you on Bluehost also?
I enjoyed your latest post on the Seven Devils. We were there a month before you, and enjoyed a nice four-day loop. We climbed He Devil, which is way too many rocks for my aging knees. It may be my last rubble heap climb. By the way, an acquaintance just measured He Devil and She Devil with super accurate technology. His results are She Devil is taller by 3.1 inches! This is important to peak baggers, since it's one of the 57 "ultra prominent" peaks in the lower 48. Dry Diggins was a pretty interesting old lookout site. The lakes are beautiful and we enjoyed your photos. Your map of locations is a great feature.
I enjoyed your latest post on the Seven Devils. We were there a month before you, and enjoyed a nice four-day loop. We climbed He Devil, which is way too many rocks for my aging knees. It may be my last rubble heap climb. By the way, an acquaintance just measured He Devil and She Devil with super accurate technology. His results are She Devil is taller by 3.1 inches! This is important to peak baggers, since it's one of the 57 "ultra prominent" peaks in the lower 48. Dry Diggins was a pretty interesting old lookout site. The lakes are beautiful and we enjoyed your photos. Your map of locations is a great feature.
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Hi rubberlegs, yes I am also on bluehost. I agree, unlimited was likely too good to be true. Unfortunately for me, it meant I assumed I didn't have to worry about file sizes, and it is now costing me in time and potentially a lot of money, as I am near 30 GB (was closer to 40 before downsizing and deleting a lot of files). I will not be sticking with them for sure, but need to figure out the migration process. I guess it's just something else to learn, but nowadays I'm not so keen on wanting to learn more about things that keep me glued to a computer screen.
The payoff is having a sort of digital photo album we can go back and refer to (and share of course), and overall it's still probably cheaper than what I used to spend on film, developing, photo books, etc.
We planned to make it to dry diggins, but the trip didn't unfold exactly as planned. Still a great place to explore though!
The payoff is having a sort of digital photo album we can go back and refer to (and share of course), and overall it's still probably cheaper than what I used to spend on film, developing, photo books, etc.
We planned to make it to dry diggins, but the trip didn't unfold exactly as planned. Still a great place to explore though!
rubberlegs
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I did a WordPress migration a few years ago. There's a way to bundle up your entire database (WordPress is really just a database) into one compressed file, if I recall. I think that was in the control panel feature on the server. Yours will be really big as photos are already compressed. Then if you can download it (I use FTP) to your computer, you should be able to upload it to your next host (also using FTP). Maybe your new host can do this for you as an incentive to switch to their service. Anyway, the process worked ok! Good luck on your mission.
Another idea, that just might work, is to download all your photos, and run a script to shrink file size as a batch job, then upload back with the same filename (replacing the files). Photos can be compressed a lot and look fine on a computer. I typically compress photos to less than 1MB.
I just looked on a WordPress site I run, and found JPG files in a folder like this: /public_html/wp-content/uploads/2023/01 (which ruins my comment that a database holds all content). If it works, it is mostly setting up the process, but would run fairly automatically. If this appeals to you, we can discuss via private message. It'd be worth trying with one photo as a test case, then a month's worth of photos to get the process down. It's type II fun for me to figure this stuff out. It'd be important to back up the photos changed, just in case. We're on a multi-week trip but could connect early next month.
We couldn't stop saying "Dry Diggins" over and over, like miners in the old TV shows. ||: Dry Diggins!! :|| (repeat ad nauseum). Yes, the area is a neato place to explore.
Another idea, that just might work, is to download all your photos, and run a script to shrink file size as a batch job, then upload back with the same filename (replacing the files). Photos can be compressed a lot and look fine on a computer. I typically compress photos to less than 1MB.
I just looked on a WordPress site I run, and found JPG files in a folder like this: /public_html/wp-content/uploads/2023/01 (which ruins my comment that a database holds all content). If it works, it is mostly setting up the process, but would run fairly automatically. If this appeals to you, we can discuss via private message. It'd be worth trying with one photo as a test case, then a month's worth of photos to get the process down. It's type II fun for me to figure this stuff out. It'd be important to back up the photos changed, just in case. We're on a multi-week trip but could connect early next month.
We couldn't stop saying "Dry Diggins" over and over, like miners in the old TV shows. ||: Dry Diggins!! :|| (repeat ad nauseum). Yes, the area is a neato place to explore.
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Hello Rubberlegs. One thought would be that solves many problems is a NAS (a home server). Never again will you worry about space, paying someone for cloud (a NAS is a home based cloud). My Synology NAS is wonderful hosting all my backups (and backups of back ups) all the music, movies (NAS can run PLEX for free) all photos, all data. The size of the NAS is up to you. No Payments after purchase. It also allows you to host your own websites without a care in the world. I have mine on my house network. It automatically backs up all our devices, Stores our security cameras data, is connected to a smart house for lights and heating/cooling etc.
But best of all is nothing is "out there" .... The NAS is encrypted and the networkk and the NAS each have their own firewalls. When we go away I pop one of the detachable hard drives in the truck as a failsafe if our house burnt down while we were away. And speaking of away... you have complete access to everything while you travel..just like a regular cloud service. I have the Synology NAS 220+ (8 Terabyte but you have as much storage as you want). It was their best small unit three years ago.
But best of all is nothing is "out there" .... The NAS is encrypted and the networkk and the NAS each have their own firewalls. When we go away I pop one of the detachable hard drives in the truck as a failsafe if our house burnt down while we were away. And speaking of away... you have complete access to everything while you travel..just like a regular cloud service. I have the Synology NAS 220+ (8 Terabyte but you have as much storage as you want). It was their best small unit three years ago.
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I'm not a climber (but I am a retired math science teacher) and I thoroughly enjoyed the link to the S/He Devil photos. Great instruments and 'hobby'!!
Occidental
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Thanks Rubberlegs and Buckland, for some things to look into. I may end up trying both on my end, downsizing the overall size of my website first by compressing the older images that I uploaded full size, and also into a home server. It's the perfect time of year for a project like this.
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