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To keep things in apple pie order.
Notorious Sock Knitters | February 13, 2008
I will occasionally be moving posts.
Sometimes posts are made with out titles. Last year this made navigating the blog extremely difficult. So far this year we don’t have the “paging” ability like we used to so it’s not an issue. I am asking Susie from Hop Studios to check into being able to add that feature back into this blog. I liked being able to page through each post with the comments visible without having to go back through the Home page or WordPress. That being said I’ll be moving Lisa’s untitled post to the comments section of “I’m finished”.
I will be checking and reading any post that doesn’t have a title. I’ll do what I can to contact the author so they can edit their post to add a title or I’ll be adding an appropriate title of my own as a stop gap until the author has a chance to think of one themselves. Re:Please (authored by Tina) If there is already an “I’ve got my kit” post and you start another post that says basically the same thing, it will become a comment to the original post. Same for the “I’m finished” category of posts. Posts that have questions will probably not get moved even if they ask the same question someone else asked in an earlier post. They may get a comment that directs them to the prior post and it’s comments.
I’m not doing this at the direction of Tina or anyone at BMFA. I’m doing this to keep the blog a bit more manageable and help others find things more easily. I hope you understand my reasoning and if you, as members of this club and readers of this blog think I should be handling things in a different manner I would appreciate your input. Happy Knitting, Alice
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7 Responses to “To keep things in apple pie order.”
OK how do you get breaks between sections? WordPress keeps running everything together like it doesn’t see the return key stroke. Suggestions? Thanks, Alice P.S. I use a Mac and Safari as my websurfer.
When I have that problem, I press return twice.
Don’t know why it does it though!
Thanks for doing this. Will you also be going through and cleaning up the categories?
Here’s my suggestion or question (or maybe I’m just confused). I am never sure why there are some many categories for comments and which to look in. What is the difference between Knit HELP and Sock Kit Questions. What goes in NSK and Sockateers? Do we need so many categories?
Jenny
Thanks the double return worked. I’ll work with Tina on the categories suggestion. But just so it’s here:
Announcements is where Tina and other BMFA people do their thing.
Camp Crows Feet is for questions and squees about all things camp related.
Designer’s Corner is for our designers to weigh in about themselves and whatever.
Warning Spoilage is pretty obvious. Pictures or descriptive language about kits posted before everyone gets their kits.
Sockateers are a special group of ladies that assist Tina at shows and with mailing out the kits. Be nice to them. Feed them wine or chocolate and maybe they’ll put your kit in a pile that goes to the post office before a different pile. I think it’s really for them to communicate with each other mostly. Last year it was called Hen House.
Notorious Sock Knitters are us and what ever we should choose to want to post about provided it has something to do with knitting, BMFA, or the sock club.
Now we get to the confusing categories. January is for the current kit. Questions, excitement, disappointment(who us?), arrivals, finished. etc etc. Sock Kit Questions are more general kit questions that would maybe relate to all the kits. Then there is Knit Help. This would be technique type questions that again would be useful for any kit or knitter. Of course there is a lot of overlap in these 3 categories. If everyone would double check to be sure the post they’re thinking of submitting hasn’t already been covered in an earlier post we could eliminate 2 of these categories. We could just use Knit Help. I envision something like on Ravelry where while the kit is current there would be lots of different questions/posts related to that kit and then when the next kit came out we would consolidate those into one “January Kit” post that would include the posts followed by their comments.
In the WordPress menu there is “manage” which takes you to the title list of posts. You should page back through those to see if a title seems like the one you’re thinking of. Then go check it out. Maybe your question will be answered. If not write your post and select a category.
The default category for everything we post is NSK. You have to check the box from the list on the right side of the “write” page to over ride that default.
I’ll send this off to Tina and Susie for review and evaluation. It’s up to them to decide these things. Happy Knitting everyone. Alice
To help keep things in “apple pie order” and make reading comments as easy and quick as possible could the comments to each post or announcement please be arranged so that the most recent comment appears at the top of the list to avoid having to have to scroll down to the bottom of the entire list? Some lists seem to be arranged this way, but other comment lists have the most recent one at the end. Thanks!
If you want to read the most recent comments you can go to the Comments section of WordPress. I know they aren’t by post but the most recent shows up at the top. We’re working on making it accessible straight from the home page so you don’t have to travel through the post page to get there. Hope that helps at least a little bit. Alice
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