{"id":721,"date":"2002-09-26T22:48:04","date_gmt":"2002-09-27T06:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/26\/thoughts-on-espressoblog\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T14:08:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T22:08:26","slug":"thoughts-on-espressoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/26\/thoughts-on-espressoblog\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on EspressoBlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15795,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/espressoblog.interalia.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7289,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.movabletype.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260306004502\\\/https:\\\/\\\/movabletype.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 20:10:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 05:52:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 17:25:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 03:37:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 10:45:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 16:49:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 00:00:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 05:19:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 07:08:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 07:33:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 07:33:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned a couple times that I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/espressoblog.interalia.org\/\" title=\"EspressoBlog\">EspressoBlog<\/a> to make posts. In the process, I&#8217;ve come up with a few issues and ideas, and figured a post here (and TrackBack ping to Phil, since it works in EB now!) would work&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Issue:<\/strong> TrackBack gets turned off.<\/em>\n<p>I keep the &#8216;allow pings&#8217; option in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/\" title=\"Movable Type\">Movable Type<\/a> turned on for every post &#8212; it may not get utilized much, but hey, why not? However, posting from EB seems to set the TB flag to &#8216;off&#8217;, requiring me to go back into my post through the usual MT interface and turn it back on.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><em><strong>Issue:<\/strong> the &#8216;HTML Tags &amp; Blog List&#8217; drawer and the &#8216;TrackBack&#8217; drawer cover each other.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This had me confused at first &#8212; I had the &#8216;&#8230;Blog List&#8217; drawer open after logging into my blog, and then opened the &#8216;TrackBack&#8217; drawer. Since they both slide out the right hand side of the window, and the &#8216;TrackBack&#8217; drawer isn&#8217;t as wide as the &#8216;&#8230;Blog List&#8217; drawer, at first I didn&#8217;t think the &#8216;TrackBack&#8217; button had done anything. I clicked it again, and then I noticed the extra shadow effect that was appearing <em>underneath<\/em> the &#8216;&#8230;Blog List&#8217; drawer. Oh! Closed the &#8216;&#8230;Blog List&#8217; drawer, and viola, there was the &#8216;TrackBack&#8217; drawer. Possible solutions: either put the &#8216;TrackBack&#8217; drawer on the left side of the window (as that&#8217;s the side the button is on anyway), or see if there&#8217;s some way for one drawer to toggle the other &#8212; if one is open, then opening the other will close the first.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><em><strong>Issue:<\/strong> &#8216;Post (Don&#8217;t Publish!)&#8217; seems to be broken.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At least, it didn&#8217;t work for this entry! I&#8217;m assuming it&#8217;s supposed to act as a &#8216;save as draft&#8217; option, but after posting this entry and hitting my site, there was the entry, definitely not in draft status. Not a biggie in this instance, but possibly could be in other instances.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><em><strong>Idea:<\/strong> could EB automatically log into a specific blog (or at least a server)?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If I leave EB running this isn&#8217;t an issue, but if I quit and then re-launch it (for instance, due to logging out of my account on my &#8216;puter), then before I can post anything, I need to re-connect to my MT installation, then choose a specific blog. Since most people probably only ever need to connect to one server (and many probably only need to connect to one blog), could there be a &#8216;default server\/default blog&#8217; option(s) setting so that EB would automatically set up the connection upon startup?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s it for now&#8230;more as I think of them. Now, to post this, then hit the web-based log in to turn on TrackBack! ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned a couple times that I&#8217;ve been using EspressoBlog to make posts. In the process, I&#8217;ve come up with a few issues and ideas, and figured a post here (and TrackBack ping to Phil, since it works in EB now!) would work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2040],"tags":[812],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-blog","tag-movabletype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","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=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}