{"id":3495,"date":"2005-09-14T19:48:17","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T02:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/14\/transitioned\/"},"modified":"2019-12-18T15:04:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T23:04:09","slug":"transitioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/14\/transitioned\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>There are a <em>few<\/em> benefits to being unemployed for a little bit. One of those is having more available hours in the day to spend tinkering around with some of my neverending PROJECTs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just (mostly) finished converting all of my pages over to the new template styles provided by Movable Type 3.2. There&#8217;s a few tweaks that I didn&#8217;t bring over (multiple stylesheets, the live comment preview, gravatar support, and incorporating TrackBack pings and comments into a single list), and I&#8217;m still running over in my head which, if any, will be re-incorporated down the line.<\/p>\n<p>For now, though, I&#8217;m declaring things done. Feel free to poke around, and as always, suggestions are always appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a brief overview of the changes I&#8217;ve made to MT&#8217;s default templates&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Main Index:\n<ul>\n<li>Various tweaks to the <code>&lt;head&gt;<\/code> data, including extra metadata and adding my customized RSS feeds.<\/li>\n<li>Completely re-vamped the sidebar.<\/li>\n<li>Pulled the sidebar into a module so a single file could be incorporated into multiple pages.<\/li>\n<li>Moved the horizontal rule below the post metadata.<\/li>\n<li>Added Google ads between the first and second posts on the page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Master Archive Index:\n<ul>\n<li>Switched to a two-column layout and added the sidebar module.<\/li>\n<li>Replaced the single, long list of every single post with three sections: a hard-coded &#8220;greatest hits&#8221; list, auto-generated links to monthly archives, and auto-generated links to category archives with the most recent ten entries for each category.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Monthly and Category Archives:\n<ul>\n<li>Switched to a two-column layout and added the sidebar module.<\/li>\n<li>Added individual entry links to the post titles.<\/li>\n<li>Condensed each entry from a full-post display to an excerpt display.<\/li>\n<li>Changed entry sort order to ascending (older entries at the top).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Individual Archive Pages:\n<ul>\n<li>Switched to a two-column layout and added a second sidebar module that displays related entries instead of my del.icio.us feed.<\/li>\n<li>Added Google ads between the entry and the TrackBack\/comment listings.<\/li>\n<li>Moved the horizontal rule below the post metadata.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Added a second Individual Archive Page:\n<ul>\n<li>Displays a text-only version of each post.<\/li>\n<li>Updated this template to include TrackBack pings and comments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Added four pages not part of the default MT install, all based on the main index template:\n<ul>\n<li>About: Basic &#8216;about the author&#8217; information.<\/li>\n<li>Comments: Lists the last twenty comments submitted to the site.<\/li>\n<li>Netflix: Lists my Netflix queue.<\/li>\n<li>Feeds: Lists all my syndication feeds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a _few_ benefits to being unemployed for a little bit. One of those is having more available hours in the day to spend tinkering around with some of my neverending PROJECTs. I&#8217;ve just (mostly) finished converting all of my pages over to the new template styles provided by Movable Type 3.2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[812,25],"class_list":["post-3495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-movabletype","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}