site updates and stuff…

For the past few hours I’ve been toying around with a few things on the EMA site, and on the WP installation I have running on my home PC. Here’s what I’ve accomplished on both servers/installations:

• Activated Jetpack’s social integration

Edited the open-graph portion in an attempt to better associate a “default” featured image for Facebook

I discovered with HarrisonEMA that it tried to grab the first image available. Horrible.

Hopefully, I’ve fixed this by editing functions.opengraph.php and adding this below the “blavatar” fallback:

else if ($image == '') { $image = '***IMAGEURL***'; }

…with ***IMAGEURL*** being an actual image URL. It seems to be working…

…I also upped the requirement for image size from 50x50px to 150×150.

• Deactivated FeedWordpress

I did this, because I found the plugin below:

• Installed/activated Syndicate Out

…with “Syndicate Out,” I can have the blog automatically push/duplicate the post to alternate WP installations via xmlrpc. Sweet!

This means that I shouldn’t have a delay–or much of one–when it comes to having EMA posts sent to my blog. Additionally, I can have a “back-up” saved on WordPress.com should the EMA site go down. I had been doing something similar on my personal installation–the back-up to wordpress.com thing, that is–via an IFTTT receipe (if RSS then email WordPress); going this route is much simpler…

• Removed “admin” accounts

Thanks to a tweet I read the other day, I read that there’s been an increase of  “admin” accounts being attacked.

Dang. I guess I have some work to do tonight. ow.ly/k7QqS

— Darrell Jordan (@dljordaneku) April 16, 2013

…so, pretty active day–online anyway. Next on the agenda:

• Finish up toying with the “back-up/alternates” for HarrisonEMA.com
  • change style of HarrisonEMA.wordpress.com
  • import previous content from HarrisonEMA.com to HarrisonEMA.wordpress.com
• ???
• ???
• Profit! lol

…oh, and this post will also serve as a test to see if that fix I tried on the featured image works right for my personal blog… the last few that I sent picked up prior images. If it’s still broken, I may just leave it for a while… I’m getting tired of writing “TEST” posts…