{"id":240,"date":"2007-07-11T19:44:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T02:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/2007\/07\/11\/sparks-from-the-smithy-changes\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T19:44:34","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T02:44:34","slug":"sparks-from-the-smithy-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/2007\/07\/11\/sparks-from-the-smithy-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparks from the Smithy Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you take a moment to look at <em>Sparks from the Smithy<\/em>, you may notice that things look a little bit different than they have previously. This is because I&#8217;ve started using <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\">WordPress<\/a> to run the site instead of my hand-made system.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I converted my technical blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/esmithy.net\">esmithy.net<\/a>, over to WordPress a while back, and I&#8217;ve been pretty happy with it, so it was time to convert <em>Sparks<\/em> as well. It took a while to get around to it, so we haven&#8217;t been posting much lately. There are a few nifty features to benefit you as a reader:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can search to find posts<\/li>\n<li>Posts are grouped by year in the sidebar<\/li>\n<li>You get to decide how or if you get notified about new postings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With notifications, there are a few options.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can subscribe to the RSS feed<\/strong>. There is actually a feed for posts as well as for comments that people leave. The links to both are in the sidebar to the right. If you don&#8217;t know what to do with an RSS feed, you can ignore this option, or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RSS_(file_format)\" title=\"Wikipedia article on RSS\">learn about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can register with the site<\/strong>. If you register with the site, you can elect to get an email when a new post is published. You can also choose if you would like the email to be in plain text or to be nicely formatted with HTML. Furthermore, if you&#8217;re registered, you don&#8217;t have to fill in any information when you make a comment &#8212; the site remembers who you are. And if your email address changes, you can update it with your registration yourself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can subscribe with just your email address<\/strong>. This is kind of like registering &#8212; you&#8217;ll get an email message when a new post is published &#8212; but you don&#8217;t have as much control over the mail format, and you still have to say who you are when you leave a comment. You can unsubscribe any time you want, too. To subscribe, just provide your email address below (assuming you&#8217;re not already registered):<\/p>\n<form name=\"s2form\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.216.27\" \/><span style=\"display:none !important\"><label for=\"firstname\">Leave This Blank:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"firstname\" name=\"firstname\" \/><label for=\"lastname\">Leave This Blank Too:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"lastname\" name=\"lastname\" \/><label for=\"uri\">Do Not Change This:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"uri\" name=\"uri\" value=\"http:\/\/\" \/><\/span><p><label for=\"s2email\">Your email:<\/label><br><input type=\"email\" name=\"email\" id=\"s2email\" value=\"Enter email address...\" size=\"20\" onfocus=\"if (this.value === 'Enter email address...') {this.value = '';}\" onblur=\"if (this.value === '') {this.value = 'Enter email address...';}\" \/><\/p><p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>&nbsp;<input type=\"submit\" name=\"unsubscribe\" value=\"Unsubscribe\" \/><\/p><\/form>\r\n\n<p>Finally, if you&#8217;re just <strong>freaking out<\/strong>, leave a comment below or send me an email telling me what kind of notification you want and I&#8217;ll set it up for you. But you need to do one of the things here to keep getting notifications &#8212; we don&#8217;t plan to send out manual emails anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you take a moment to look at Sparks from the Smithy, you may notice that things look a little bit different than they have previously. This is because I&#8217;ve started using WordPress to run the site instead of my hand-made system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}