Changelog


A fun and fresh way to display changes I’ve been making on my blog.

Social shares.

Announcement Jun 07, 2017

Some of the social media shares weren’t working so I updated them. I was trying to avoid using scripts, but couldn’t get them to work. I even tried using a different service with no luck.

Pinterest is using their default script with a custom image to match the rest. It works as expected now.

I added Flipboard since I’m building magazines with it. I have to use their script as well. They don’t offer a custom image, which isn’t a big deal since Font Awesome doesn’t have one for Flipboard anyway. As this is an experiment, I may change in the future.


Fixing icon awesomeness.

Announcement May 21, 2017

Well, crud. Finally figured out why some of the Font Awesome icons I wanted to use weren’t showing up. I was loading an older version! With that fixed, I cleaned up a few things—including adding the final icon (topics) to the top menu. While doing so, I also added tooltips and aria labels to a number of icons to make them more accessible.


For members—cleaner profiles and member list.

Announcement May 16, 2017

I cleaned up the public (to members) and private profiles for members. What should have a been a minor change took me a few days to code. I should do a complete overhaul, but I’ve made progress until then.

Welcome and profile have a nicer look now and I removed some old fields. I’m not overly happy with the profile information—too forum oriented for a blog. Plus, some of the data isn’t very modern or is static, so I dropped what didn’t matter.

I also made the member list responsive. It used to be two different routines (standard and search) with different columns. To reduce confusion I combined them together with a common look and feel.

I also made some additional changes to the router routine to work correctly with query strings. But, I need to do some more code changes to fully take advantage of it.


Menu and login changes.

Announcement May 07, 2017

I updated the menu’s with some new icons and router routines—I’m still removing old style queries. I also moved all the login and registration routines into their own pages, removing the bottom status. For users, your profile and notifications will now show at the top instead of at the bottom. Custom menus will still show at the bottom.


Fixed captcha form and back end comments.

Bug Fix May 01, 2017

The Captcha input wasn’t obvious as it didn’t match the other form inputs. I fixed that today with the help of a reader.

In addition, I also fixed a bug I introduced when trying to edit comments. Doing so would break the article, remove tags, and generally just break things. I fixed all of that. Hopefully now things will work a bit better on the backside.