Just found out that this K2 Blog/commenting functionality has a RSS feed option. My pseudo dumb blog can now be a RSS. They grow up so fast. (sheds a tear) Seriously though I have been trying to get RSS feeds to show on the website. The free versions are really finicky and most feeds come out as errors. I would love to show Palladium news and Dresden news but I get errors with the ones I am using now (Simple RSS). The Wizards of the Coast RSS shows up nicely as do the pictures in it but not much else. Apparently, an extra space in the link can ruin the extensions day. I had RSS Factory once, which read everything but wouldn't process images. I had to roll back an installation to an earlier backup and when I tried to re-install it I got an error. The restoration left stuff in the table it didn't like;) I lost some nice extensions due to this error. OSMap, EasyFrontEndSEO, JCH Optimization. All of these get an error now when I install and choke without fully installing. I suppose the moral of the story is to uninstall the extra extensions and THEN restore. I had to restore the Joobla installation due to HD Videoshare acting up. It didn't work and my browser suddenly said my page wasn't secure even after I removed it. Ugh. Yendif Video is less feature rich but is easy to configure and doesn't freak out my security settings.
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Two weeks ago I installed Joomla and my productivity has been destroyed! Mostly because I have been having fun fiddling with it to create a website. The last web site I had was maybe 15 years ago and was just an html page I threw together in Word. Now content managers rules and static web pages drool! Honestly, I only have about a dozen pages so static would have been fine, but Joomla is fun and getting together a nice looking page with only free extensions has been a hoot. Frustrating sometimes but generally fun. I sorta had the idea of honing my skills so that I could make a functional business page for my wife, who is a videographer. However, she doesn't like personal information about us to be on the web and won't show any video clips from the events and weddings because they belong to her and the clients. All good and reasonable but there's not much you can put on your webpage to advertise after that decision has been made. Still, I had fun. Now I need to get back to work on my books!
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Even though WordPress is my official Blog I am trying to implement a simple comment system and notice system specific to this site. I am presently using the basic K2 implementation. This is tricky because the documentation assumes you know more about how to set it up than I really do. It forces Captcha on you. I had to figure out where the settings were and how to link it to Google. Fun stuff. Next, I need to figure out how to get K2 to register users.
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