Just one tiny fix today
I am trying to make my weekends actual weekends, so the only thing I did on Publ today was to refactor the way that properties with optional arguments work. Previously I was using a hack that only worked for string-type things (such as links), but now I’m using a better hack that works for every sort of object you might throw at it.
I am trying to make my weekends actual weekends, so the only thing I did on Publ today was to refactor the way that properties with optional arguments work. Previously I was using a hack that only worked for string-type things (such as links), but now I’m using a better hack that works for every sort of object you might throw at it.
So the upshot is that now entry.previous and entry.next take arguments
directly; for example:
{% set prev_on_site = entry.previous(category='',recurse=True) %}
makes the prev_on_site variable refer to the previous entry anywhere on
the site across all categories. There is no longer any need for separate next and next_in properties, as a result, so this simplifies the API a lot, which
makes me happy.
Anyway, here is my current priority list:
- View pagination
- Image renditions
- Start migrating beesbuzz.biz to Publ
These also happen to be in increasing order of complexity. How convenient.
For my migration plan I think I’ll start with just the photography section since that touches all of the key points on image renditions, and then next I’ll move on to the comics since that is where paginations and entry types become important.
The blog I will probably save for much, much later, if ever, because holy cow there’s a lot of content there I don’t care about, and a huge amount of fiddly things to worry about. (Plus, I never got around to migrating the comments over to Disqus, and I have a bunch of stuff there that I’d rather still be behind a friends-only ACL. I’ll probably just omit those entries for now, if it’s all the same.)
Anyway. This project is coming along much more quickly than I expected it to! And I’ve learned a lot about Python while doing it. Neat.
I’ve also learned a bunch about Dreamhost and Passenger as well, although I’d really like to understand why I have to restart my app instance to make rendered templates re-render… There seems to be some sort of obnoxious caching behavior, or something. This I will definitely need to address.