Wordpress 2.5

I’ve upgraded. Really, I’ve only upgraded so quickly because the screen shots of the new post page show how really sexy it is. It’s those buttons. And the dashboard is so… useful and beautiful!

Except for the fact that it’s stupid because it’s not very fluid. Very fluid? I mean that it’s fluid for resolutions up to 1024 by 768, but anything larger (in width) than that will have the main portions no longer stretch.

I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one complaining about this, check search the blogs with Google with the words “wordpress 2.5 widescreen” if you’d like.

I’ve changed the stylesheet to my liking, however, and made a little plugin for those who don’t want to dig into their stylesheets. It’s only four lines of code, I believe. Just add it to somewhere like: wp-admin > css > global.css

.wrap, .updated, .error { max-width: 5000px !important; }
.updated, .error { max-width: 4970px !important; }
div.dashboard-widget { margin-right: 15px !important; }
#rightnow { margin-right: 2px !important; }

Here’s a quick plugin. Save it as a “.php” file and upload it to your plugins folder. Activate it. wp-fluid.txt

This plugin makes the max-width much larger, so that it’ll support much larger screen resolutions. It also fixes a discrepancy between the padding in the main pages. It was put together after a brief snoop of the current stylesheet.

Otherwise, here’s my pros and cons list

Pros

• It’s beautiful.
• It’s a welcomed design from the old admin panels, which was pretty cluttered in some spots. And this design isn’t one to distract.
• Tag management is completely supported.
• Searching everything is supported, no more plugins.
• Dashboard widgets.
• Automatic plugin upgrade. This is wonderful, no more wasted time on plugins.
• That media gallery is awesomes.
• No more messing with my code in posts.

Cons

• The contrast isn’t impressive. Some thing’s need me to squint a little on my laptop. The light blue’s not doing much favors.
• Obviously, the non-fluidity.
• The font size isn’t very impressive on some parts of the admin pages. Making it bigger with Firefox provokes some sections to semi-break. (See the “Settings, Plugins, Users” menu.)
• Some things that used to be on the sidebar of the post pages are now under the textarea. I don’t like that. Especially the categories.

My Fluting Skills

I’ve been practicing my flute a lot lately. More than I practice my piano. Sad, I know. But I’ve been inspired by the people in the high school band who play so well. They can play sixteenth notes in an allegro tempo easily, even if they don’t know what a tenuto is.

And the high school band also has a chamber music group for the best people in the regular Wind Ensemble. I’d try out if I could actually play any of it. I’ve tried the music.

It’s required that we go to band at lunch to practice at least once a week or so, and the other day, the small practice room was being worked on or something, so me and Mr. First-Chair-and-also-in-the-chamber-music-group shared the room with the other instruments who had come to practice. And most of the people there were in the chamber-music-group, and since we all shared the practice room, we played the chamber music. I could play it slowly. Maybe as fast as some eighth notes on a moderato speed, but the Chamber Winds people played it with a blur of fingers. Ms. Other-First-Chair-flute came in too to play with finger blurs, and a girl I know who is two years above me and is the only person who so far signed up for the audition of the vacant flute place of the Chamber Winds came too and played.

I feel inferior. But I really want to audition for the chamber music group. I’m not good enough. That’s why I’ve been practicing so much.

…Can anyone recommend a book of etudes, or something?

Invasion (part-2)

Remember the 10,000 ants I found in the kitchen?

I had just came home when I noticed 100,000 ants in a two-and-a-half-inch wide line in the crack in the garage. From a few feet away, it looked like some pulsing, dark, oval mass where the crack was. Luckily enough, my dad was there this time, and we killed them ants good with some Raid and hosed their dead bodies out the garage, resulting in water running down the driveway with what seemed to be a large amount of little black dots floating uselessly with the current.

I’m off to ant-proof my house with vinegar or something. Ugh.