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Changes and Upgrades

Dan — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:44:44 +0000

Well, there have been a few changes to the site today.

First, the WordPress engine has been upgraded to the latest version. This upgrade has been a long time coming, but hadn’t been applied yet due to incompatibility with certain plugins. If you’re interested in details of the upgrade, you can view a quick video in the link below. Its mostly back end changes that make my life easier, but hey, who doesn’t want to make my life easier, right?

WordPress 2.9 Features

Next bit of news, the Forums have been retired/removed/not there anymore. Now this shouldn’t be a surprise as I’d explained how I planned to remove them a couple of weeks back. I just want to say that the people at SimplePress have made a wonderful forums plugin, but when it came down too it, however, the forums were simply no longer useful for this site.

But what happened to all the cool stuff we talked about?

I did make a backup before uninstalling the plugin, so everything is still somewhere. Also, I’ve moved the RAWR update posts to the blog, and you can now find them under the DnD Weekly Updates category (there’s also a link on the RAWR page).

Oh, and one more thing: I have another blog hidden somewhere on the web that I’ll be incorporating with Folaji.com. I’ve been thinking about it, and although the subject matter of the other blog is not really related to this site, there’s no real reason why I can’t merge the two together and just create a different category on this site. So, expect some different and interesting content in the coming weeks.

Site reOrg

Dan — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:11:32 +0000

I just want to give a heads up that Folaji.com will be changing throughout the next couple of weeks. Although the site will remain operational, its contents will be shifted to put a greater emphasis on the story-telling and writing aspect of the site (seeing as how the DnD adventuring seems to be on hiatus).

I will also look at ways to minimize site maintenance by removing unused plugins, and one of the pages I am most certain will be removed is the site Forum. Although it was useful for our discussions regarding DnD, its become too much overhead to keep it up and running (and up to date), especially for something we can do using the blog’s comment feature.

So if you have anything stored in the blog that you do not want to lose, I urge you to copy/paste it now, otherwise it will go the way of the Dodo! I’ll also keep you up to date on any further changes.

Updated Forums

Dan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:18:53 +0000

Just a quick note that the forums have been upgraded to the latest available version. Although I feel comfortable the install went well, feel free to browse through them and let me know if you find anything weird showing up.

Welcome to RAWR Update Forums

Dan — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:39:33 +0000

With the launch of RAWR last sunday, I’ve taken it upon myself to create a new RAWR Update Forum for the weekly updates. You’ll find a link to the forum below.

Enjoy!

Website Upgrade

Dan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:02:50 +0000

As mentioned in a post I wrote earlier this month, Folaji.com was due for a few upgrades. I’m pleased to say that the upgrades to both the Blog and Forums were installed today, with no resulting issues (from what I can see).

That being said, if you see something funny or improper on the site, please let me know!

Back in Ottawa!

Dan — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:56:30 +0000

We’ll we’ve been back in Ottawa since last Saturday, but with the trip just behind us and tired like hell, I decided not to have any DnD last week. I do not know if anybody is away on vacation this weekend, so I’ll be placing calls to you guys tomorrow, and if everybody is present and willing, then I don’t see why we can’t have a DnD session.

You’ll also notice that all Vikas Journal Entries have been published, and you can read through all of them by using the links below or by viewing the Vikas Journal Entries Series Page. This series of 7 pages taken from Vikas’ journal details how he became the owner of the Death Valley Inn, how he began working for the Soulhers, and how he and many of the farmers of Cory became undead creatures. Hope you enjoy!

And finally, a few notes about website updates. On the day before the day before we left on vacation (that’s not a typo) WordPress announced the release of WordPress 2.8. I will be looking at upgrading the blog to this new version in the following weeks, though I expect the site will pretty much remain the same (upgrades mostly have to do with the site administration). I may also have to upgrade the forum and run some tests on the different plugins, so expect a little site down-time and possibly some minor visual changes in the not to distant future.

Forums Update & Gravatars

Dan — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:16:50 +0000

First, if you havn’t already, be sure to read my earlier post below about our DnD session tomorrow.

Now, with that out of the way, I’ve updated the forums and changed the look a little. Its possible that some links to the forums will have changed due to the update, so if you find a post that has a link in error, PM me so I can fix it.

Gravatar Logo

Also, with the forums upgrade comes a new avatar system: Gravatars.

A gravatar is a Globally Recognized Avatar that allows you to associate an avatar with your email address. The service is free, and allows you to have one global image for all your forum/blog/social networking site accounts. With the forums upgrade, Folaji.com is now fully compatible with gravatars, so I invite you to create a gravatar account today!

Welcome to WordPress 2.7

Dan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:07:13 +0000

So I spent the last two hours working on the site, upgrading the blog engine to WordPress 2.7. As you can see, there really isn’t much of a change for site visitors, although the administrative back end is pretty sweet!

The next step, which will probably happen within the next couple of weeks, will be to upgrade the forums to Version 4.0.0. Unlike the upgrade of WordPress, you should see a significant change to the Forums Page once the upgrade is installed.

Edit: I changed the site’s theme on Friday, so yes, the site should look different now

Neverwinter Nights VS Neverwinter Nights 2

Dan — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:58:27 +0000

Fyrewind suggested last Sunday that I take a look at Neverwinter Nights, a game where I could create a campaign based on the Soulhers adventure. I’ve since downloaded the demo and am very interested at what this game can allow me to do. The only issue I have is, do I get the first game or its sequel?

The sequel has better graphics and uses the 3.5 rules set, but my understanding is that there are still many people playing the original game. So, which is best? and Why?

I Don’t Need No Education…

Dan — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:57:35 +0000

I don’t need no thought control…

Apologies for the silence on the site, I’ve been on training for most of the past 10 days and now I’m finally done! I’ve written all my tests (and am hoping that I pass them all…) and I’m slowly getting back into the boring cycle of normal everyday life.

I hope to dish out a few pages of content over the next week (Chapter 3 of the X-Syndicate and Chapter 1 of the Soulhers). I also have to update some of the site plugins as well as WordPress, and I want to add Creative Commons Licensing to protect the works being published by users on this site.

I’ll also be adding a new Forum for Website Technical Issues, so if you find an error on the site, feel free to post your comments in that section and I should be able to fix it up.

Cheers!

Update…
Major updates (update of Simple:Press Forum and WordPress) are complete and everything seems to be working properly. There should no longer be any website interruptions.