Website Enhancements
December 16, 2006
Just a quick note to let you know about some Mr Papa’s World website enhancements that have been added over the past few weeks.
You will notice the obtrusive social bookmarks with its multitude of icons is gone. While social bookmarking is still en vogue, the messy icons are not, so I have added a newer, easier method. In the post header information, you will now see a “Share this Post” link. That link will allow you to socially bookmark it or email the post to a friend. This plugin in comes courtesy of Alex King. I have done very minor tweaking to his fine mod.
I have also completely revamped the way comments are done and added a bit of ajax to them. If you click on the link that displays the number of comments, the comments will now immediately expand in place without reloading a page. From this comment expansion, you can also enter a new comment. This ajax plugin comes from Kashou but has been extensively modified to work with my site how I wanted it to.
I have replaced the post rating system with a popularity system. Not surprisingly, not many people were actually taking the time to vote for posts. I know I dont on sites that have them. I had installed that mostly to play with. The new post popularity system is automatic. It weights each post based on the number of home page views, number of permalink views, number of comments, etc. etc.. The post with the highest score gets 100%. So, each posts popularity will be a percentage of the highest post value. Since the post view counts are cumulative, newer posts will generally have lower scores, but it will even out over time. This plugin also comes from Alex King.
I also changed the theme layout slightly altering where some of the elements where located (ie comments vs similar posts). You can always see what plugins I am running here at Mr Papa’s World my plugin page.
As usual, I expect to continually be modifying and tweaking Mr Papa’s World as time goes by.
Genealogy Update
December 10, 2006
Okay, as promised, I have updated the genealogy pages here at Mr Papa’s World. This was a big update for me, but really not a whole lot of new names in the tree.
The update does include a few new inclusions (Wehage, Ossim, Kott, etc) based on a few minor finds and some info passed on from folks who have visited Mr Papa’s World. There are also some corrections to a few items based on additional info that folks have passed on.
I spent a fair amount of time cleaning up the file. I started to correct a few inconsistencies that existed and ended up spending hours fixing stuff. Now, when I say fixing, I dont mean any real data, just the way its organized or presented. I tend to be a stickler for consistency. I did also find about 40 duplicate individuals which are now cleaned up.
I am also hot on the trail of some additional Klasen family members and hope to add some more soon. I do have a whole list of other research that is looking promising at adding some dates to current names.
Suzanne keeps saying that her Dad Brett Pechuls is working her family, so I am still holding out hope of more info there.
On the home front, the Xmas tree went up today. Here in Arizona, you cant put the tree up to early or it will dry out and drop ALL its needles. The rest of the decorations are going up to. I dont think we will do anything outside this year because of travel plans.
Speaking of travel plans, we will be spending 4 or 5 days in the mountains of Cloudcroft, New Mexico between Christmas and New Years. We will be there with Suzanne’s sister’s family and her parents. We have some cabins in the woods/mountains. It should be a fun trip and Suzanne’s parents are springing for the whole deal. Cant wait…
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