elorg.net

Between school work and random house chores like weeding the garden (not to mention the day job) I’ve been getting an offline development instance of my website setup. I have the VM guest finally configured and ready, the database imported, and the files copied over. Now to just tweak the settings a little so that it will run locally and not think that it’s running on the live web server!

I don’t know how much longer I can take these “default” templates. hahaha

My site will most likely remain pretty ugly for a while. I’m focusing on getting everything actually working the way that I want it to first. Then I’ll come back and focus on customizing the layout and elorg-ifying it.

I’ve setup a login form on the home page. I kind of hacked it together, but it works. At least it contains the links to your WordPress & Vanilla profiles, as well as the forum for now. I’ll work on cleaning it up and setting some conditions when I have time.

I really need to setup my site to display excerpts of my posts instead of the entire thing…

If you’ve googled “WordPress Vanilla integration” then I’m sure you’ve come across the instructions on the Lussumo website. Thanks to them for taking some time to write that up! Unfortunately, that is no longer sufficient because it documents integrating WordPress 2.0.4 and Vanilla 1.0.1. At the time of writing this entry, WordPress is at 2.5.1 and Vanilla is at 1.1.4. In addition, every tutorial or bit of info that I’ve found has made the assumption that everything is starting out fresh and new. That makes it almost easy as cake! However, that doesn’t entirely work for me since I already had both WordPress and Vanilla installed, with users and content – functioning independently.
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