By now, you’ve almost certainly heard about the change to itemization whereby the +Healing and +Spell Damage stats are being retired for the less specialized Spell Power stat. What, exactly does this mean, though, and what can you expect at the release of Patch 3.0?
I wanted to point out a few new features that I've been working on during the brief periods of downtime I've had at work lately. The 15-minute periods between submitting items for testing and hearing back from our testers are just perfect for aesthetic tweaks like these!
- Replaced my contact page with a much more customizable one called Contact Form 7. Thank you to Jon over at The Bronze Kettle for the recommendation!
- Updated my About Me page. Nothing special, but I did relocate my Armory and Guild Site information to the top of the page so I could remove it from the bottom of my template.
- Re-added Google Clips. This lets me opt to share my favorite posts from other Druid blogs in a section at the bottom of the page called "Nature's Reach." I cleaned out most of the old ones I was featuring and have yet to share anything new, but will do so soon!
- Finally got ItemStats working after having to manually create the itemcache table in my database and using a plugin to configure any post that uses them to not convert double quotes to smartquotes. A big thank you to Jon and Shelbi's article on implementing WoWHead-powered ItemStats on WordPress. And now you can check out what I fished up last night: [item]Weather-Beaten Journal[/item].
- Learned how to automate my extended Blogroll using a plugin that allows me to run PHP on individual pages. It should be much easier for me to add, remove, and update sites now.
- Added a form for submitting a link to the bottom of my extended Blogroll page.
- Added a new icon to add Resto4Life.com to your Technorati Favorites. It's the green speech bubble icon up at the top right, next to the RSS feed icon.
- Recategorized all the Featured Artwork pieces into the Artwork category. Hopefully this will make it easier to select a desktop wallpaper from what's been featured so far.
Also, I realize that I'm behind on responding to comments. I plan on making the rounds at some point today (if possible). Please don't think that I'm ignoring your wonderful contributions to the site!
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very nice job on the site. was reading through your aboutness and saw that you’re a software engineer! thats pretty cool, same field i work in, although i dont do any coding anymore, mostly high level design and project management.
keep up the good work!
@Doomilias: Hey, you too! Looks like you’ve made yourself at home pretty quickly; the new site looks great. Valenna from PDS is also a software developer (we work together). I’ve been trying hard to convince him to make the switch to WordPress (mostly so we can swap plug-in discoveries).