{"id":5542,"date":"2024-01-26T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=5542"},"modified":"2024-01-29T02:42:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T02:42:00","slug":"maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"* We&#8217;re Up!  But lots of maintenance going on&#8230; *"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Not everything works right around here. Still, pretty happy with the blooming thing running at all with the neglect that this site has seen. So, a temporary maintenance post stuck to the top for a while.<\/p>\r\n<p>What works:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>User posts<\/li>\r\n<li>User comments<\/li>\r\n<li>Chat<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Not working (or not working right)<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Join (new account creation) &#8212; I have this suppressed.\u00a0 Mail for a workaround.<\/li>\r\n<li>Rotating Tweets (over on the sidebar Twitter thing) &#8212; working on that.<\/li>\r\n<li>Forums.\u00a0 After struggling to get these things self-regulating (I wanted to hand control of individual forums to the forum admins), the primary use case evaporated.\u00a0 I got rid of the forums.\u00a0 There are still some stumps poking up that I&#8217;m afraid to get rid of until the user perms and roles are solid (forums capability was very intrusive into that process, and now what&#8217;s left is a mix, sigh).<\/li>\r\n<li>USER PERMISSION LEVELS &#8212; so far no problems, but there&#8217;s wreckage leftover from forums.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just hard to validate things, to account completely for things that should not be left to chance. \u00a0 I&#8217;m being careful with this.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>To-Do &#8220;soon&#8221;:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Tighten up user permissions, identities, roles; without bumping anybody or severing their permissions.\u00a0 This is tough.\u00a0 Will take time, but is a priority.<\/li>\r\n<li>Send a &#8220;heartbeat&#8221; email (a one-off) to users just to indicate the blog is somewhat active again.<\/li>\r\n<li>Fix the Twitter problem &#8212; The old plug-in has been abalndoned by its creators, as Twitter has changed the way their API can be accessed.\u00a0 There are some low-satisfaction &#8220;solutions&#8221; available, but I&#8217;m looking for better.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li><em>In-progress<\/em> &#8212; chewing 18K bogus users down to nothing.\u00a0 Why not simply delete all new?\u00a0 Because there may be valid users in there.\u00a0 And I just don;t want to turn anybody away for having tried to come in the right way.\u00a0 This is a lot of work.<\/li>\r\n<li>Create a &#8220;child theme,&#8221; which is a sustainable way to maintain customizations.\u00a0 Right now, this site is presenting an out-of-the-box color scheme and layout.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not bad.\u00a0 But it isn&#8217;t &#8212; you know &#8212; <em>Boss<\/em>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Let me know if you spot something that doesn&#8217;t work, or if you need help.<\/p>\r\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"5542\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"5542\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not everything works right around here. Still, pretty happy with the blooming thing running at all with the neglect that this site has seen. So, a temporary maintenance post stuck to the top for a while.<\/p>\n<p>What works:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>User posts<\/li>\n<li>User comments<\/li>\n<li>Chat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not working (or not working right)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Join (new account creation) &#8212; I have this suppressed.\u00a0 Mail for a workaround.<\/li>\n<li>Rotating Tweets (over on the sidebar Twitter thing) &#8212; working on that.<\/li>\n<li>Forums.\u00a0 After struggling to get these things self-regulating (I wanted to hand control of individual forums to the forum admins), the primary use case evaporated.\u00a0 I got rid of the forums.\u00a0 There are still some stumps poking up that I&#8217;m afraid to get rid of until the user perms and roles &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/maintenance\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><br \/>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5542"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5557,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542\/revisions\/5557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}