As some of you may or may not know, Steve has decided to take some personal time away from the blog. I’m not sure when he’ll be back or if he’ll be back at all. During that time, I’ve taken over the Patriots and Celtics coverage here and will continue to do my best at keeping you up-to-date. If anyone is interested in helping out with the blog, especially the Pats and Celtics (the C’s especially if you have Comcast SportsNet NE), send me an email through the contact page.
You may have noticed a few changes here as well. I’d been wanting to do this for about 6 months now or so but a while back I had looked at plugin called asides. The plugin is used for short blurbs or blog posts. I tested it out today a few times so if you’re scrolling down the site and see something like this:
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They will be located between the blog posts and can also be found in the recent posts section on the right sidebar. Because of the plugin, I increased the number of posts on the front page to 20, it had been at 15. So far I haven’t noticed a difference in load times but if I do, I’ll decrease it back to 15.
For those who want to look back at what’s been written in the past, you can use the calendar for the archives of a particular day. Just click on the day and it will bring you to the day’s blog posts. Same thing goes in the archives as well. The archives are done by month for the current year. For example, if you clicked on the July archive page and wanted to see what was written on July 14th, you can then click on the 14th on the calendar and it will give you all of the days posts.
I don’t have a category drop-down menu anymore because honestly it would take a long time to scroll through the 365 categories I have. But if you’re interested in seeing what else has been written about a particular category listed on a post, just click on it and it will give you all the posts. To test it out, you could click on the General tag at the bottom of this post and it will bring you to all of the general posts since the site’s inception in November 2005.
I know that some people come to the site for just the UConn news or the Patriots or the Red Sox news. I’ve always had the separate category feeds for each of them but had just made a casual mention of them in a blog post. So if you subscribe to the site through a feed reader and are interested in just one of those feeds instead of everything from the site, I’ve taken the liberty of adding each those three feeds to the meta section as well.
And of course, if you want to email the post you are reading or post it on one of the social network sites, you can use the share this button.
Lastly, I am awaiting the upgrade release of the Cutline Split Theme to take advantage of the new WordPress 2.7 commenting features. Once it’s released, I’ll make the necessary tweaks to the style sheet so it’ll look like nothing has changed visibly.
Thank you for making SOX & Dawgs a part of your day.
PS – Don’t forget to enter the 3rd annual SOX & Dawgs College Football Pick’em Contest.
