Temporary theme is temporary

re: Dear Lazy Tumblr

livejamie:

thatguyben:

[Because this worked so well the last time, I figured I’d try again.]

Suppose I wanted to enable disqus comments on only some of my posts (or, if you like, only some of my post types, eg text only) and then only some of the time.

Here is what I imagine the behaviour to be:

• write a new text post
• tag is with “commentsenabled”
• comments are enabled

Text posts that don’t have comments enabled are ordinary text posts without comments.

I’ve had a brief look at the tagsasclasses functionality and, awesome as it is, it seems that it only really supports differential styling, not differential functionality. Of course, I could be totally wrong on that.

Is this even possible?

Differentially yours,

Ben

The way that your tumblr theme works is that you have a main posts block, that contains the formatting for all your posts, it goes like this:

{ block:Posts }
{ block:Video }
blah blah video code
{ /block:Video }
{ block:Quote }
blah blah quote code
{ /block:Quote }
and all the other blocks, video, text, etc
{ /block:Posts }

By default disqus wants you to throw in their code at the end, before the {/block:Posts} so every single post type gets the default treatment of the disqus comments and comment box. But if you wanted to enable it for certain types of posts you would throw in the code that disqus gives you not before the {/block:Posts} but before the blocks you wanted to enable commenting for.

This also comes in handy when you want to customize the comment link for certain blocks. (i.e. right justifying the comment link for quotes, etc)

If you don’t include the code on a certain type of post, Disqus won’t append anything to it. But you have to do it before the {/block} tag for each category you want it enabled on.

I hope that makes sense. If you, or anybody else needs clarification drop me an email or IM, I’d be happy to help. :)

I think what thatguyben meant was that he wanted the option to have both a regular post (for example) that had comments and a regular post that wouldn’t have comments, all operated with the omission/inclusion of a tag.

This is totally a shot in the dark, but maybe you could try Cameron’s TagsAsClasses method with a stylesheet that had Disqus’s comments in a <div> within all posts’ {block} code, but set to invisible, and then use the TagsAsClasses to enable a new styling with the Disqus comments <div> set to visible.

To clarify, say you put in a new <div> containing the Disqus comments within the Regular Posts {block} and give it the id “disqus”, the CSS would be:

#content div.regular disqus {
     /* style for Regular Post with Disqus comments set to invisible */
display: none;
 }

But then when you add the TagsAsClasses of your choice, say adding the tag "commentsenabled" the <div> would be set to visible via:

body #content div.commentsenabled disqus {
    /* style for Regular Post with Disqus comments set to visible */
display: block;
}

I might be wrong since I haven’t implemented Disqus before and haven’t tried out TagsAsClasses either, but it seems feasible. Give it a shot and e-mail me if you need any more clarification.

oh and sorry for breaking everyone’s Dashboard.

Techcrunch: "Posterous Beats Tumblr In Simplicity"

“New Y Combinator startup Posterous launches today with what might be the simplest blogging platform to date. Yes, it’s even easier to use than Tumblr, which has a cult-following of users who like to post lots of pictures and short messages.

Here’s how you create a blog on Posterous - email something to post@posterous.com. You’re done (…) The subject line of the email is the post title, the text area is the content. You can also email photos, videos and sounds files, which will be displayed in a custom Flash player on the site.”

Not too shabby. (via Techcrunch)

re:I've Had Enough

jlarchive:

But going forward, Jakob Lodwick, the person, is withdrawing from the public web. You will see the results of my efforts through Normative and other companies. I just cannot deal with these animals any longer.

Say what you will about his ego, but so far he’s left 2 companies he’s vehemently supported. That doesn’t paint him as a very trustworthy business man.