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Jul 24th, 2008 by Catrina
Over the last couple of days we’ve had some questions about how to do things like quotes and smilies in comments. Included below are instructions on both topics. For those of you who want to do some experimenting - feel fee to try things out in the comments below.
Including quotes in your comments
The following is a quote from Mark Twain (1835 - 1910):
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
To replicate the same thing in your comments, you need to add a <blockquote> instruction before the quote and a </blockquote> terminator at the end of the quote. For example:
<blockquote>
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
</blockquote>
Links and URLs
Wordpress will automatically convert a url to a link providing it starts with a recognized protocol (such as http) and ends with either a space or end of line character. If you want to do a full embedded link you need to do the following:
<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/">The Sydney Morning Herald</a>
The above link will appear as The Sydney Morning Herald.
Smilies
Smilies are those cute little faces you sometimes see in comments expressing things like a smile, a frown, laughter, etc. The technology we use to run this blog recognizes a bunch of simile codes. The following list shows the smile and the corresponding text code to use in a comment or a post.
:) or :-)
:D
:wink:
:cool:
:mrgreen:
:neutral:
:twisted:
:arrow:
:shock:
:smile:
:???:
:evil:
:grin:
:idea:
:oops:
:razz:
:roll:
:wink:
:cry:
:eek:
:lol:
:mad:
:sad:
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July 24th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Thanks,Cat….all tres confusing!
July 24th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Hey I’m back.
July 24th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Having a bit of trouble, I’ll try and sort it out.
July 24th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Am going out now,Chris,but if you need further testing ,just leave a note and I’ll check in when I get home.
July 26th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Thank you!
July 26th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Just seeing.
July 27th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Testing
July 29th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
So how do you insert a url?
Just testing……
http://www.smh.com.au/
July 29th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
KatieLou at 8
Wordpress will automatically convert a url to a link providing it starts with a recognized protocol (such as http) and ends with either a space or end of line character (which is what has happened in the above example. If you want to do a full embedded reference you need to do the following:
The above link will appear as The Sydney Morning Herald.
August 6th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
148;
August 6th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
(148
August 6th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
(148)
August 6th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Why does that happen
when i type bracket one four eight then close with the end bracket it becomes a smiley.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Test run
With this
August 8th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Gaffhook at 13
The problem is that Wordpress (in its default configuration) recognizes the character combination 8) as a smiley from someone wearing sunglasses. If you want to be really clever you can work around this by entering the character sequence ) which will generate the ) character - for example I can write a number like 18 in brackets (18) and I’ve solved the problem because what I actually typed was (18) (but I’m guessing that you didn’t want to know that).
For more info about the intriguing possibilities that HTML Character Codes open up to you - take a look at the following page.
http://www.tntluoma.com/sidebars/codes/
August 8th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Thankyou very much for your helpful hints and advice Ms Catrina ♥
August 8th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
and a ♥ to you too!
August 20th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Cat
Can you add these to the list as the arsecons!
We all know those cute little computer symbols called ‘emoticons,’ where:
means a smile and 
is a frown.
Well, how about some ‘ARSE-ICONS?’
Sometimes these are represented by
Here goes:
(_!_) a regular arse
(__!__) a fat arse
(!) a tight arse
(_*_) a sore arse
{_!_} a swishy arse
(_o_) an arse that’s been around
(_x_) kiss my arse
(_X_) leave my arse alone
(_zzz_) a tired arse
(_E=mc2_) a smart arse
(_$_) Money coming out of his arse
(_?_) Dumb arse
You have just been e-mooned!
August 25th, 2008 at 12:25 am
August 27th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Emoticon check……………..
:)……..:mrgreen:
August 27th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
EC - you need to include a space before and after the respective ‘:’ characters (or a beginning of line or end of line)
September 10th, 2008 at 1:09 am
I’m told that name and mail fields aren’t remembered properly by this blog. Testing.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Joe User at 22
Problem has been solved. The issue was with the comment pagination plugin. Version 2.7 and 2.8 have a bug related to session state but version 2.6 seems to be standing up ok.
October 13th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I will just put this in safe keeping so that we may play with it later.
Adam in Canberra
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 at 4:25 pm | Permalink
Dario, yes of course, and that’s why Obama is ahead. But he should be much further ahead given the objective situation. The reason he isn’t is that there is still widespread unease about him. My prediction is that Obama will win, but not by much.
October 13th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Gaffhook at 24
Works for me.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Chris
I have loaded it on my machine.
Will try it later.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
It looks very simple and it is very easy to use. Make sure you have a lot of free space on the drive where you store it. The default is the drive windows is on.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
I ran out of space on my drive. Have changed where it is to be stored. Plenty of space on that drive. It is VERY user friendly I like it a lot already. Just have to wait till it runs again. I will be using it from know on. Unless the quality is crap.
January 5th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Gaffy
It completed the conversion OK. But I can’t get my real player going. I’ll try again tomorrow.
January 6th, 2009 at 7:19 am
Chris B and Gaffy.
Just tried it on my machine using an encrypted commercial dvd that refused to copy using Nero.
Results.
Original DVD size including extras. 5.61Gb.
Ripped AVI size including extras. 602Mb.
The default location for the store on this windows XP box was a newly created folder called my DVD backups in the my documents directory.
The original DVD had 7 tracks, of which the first one was encrypted.
This one would not copy, but by moving on to the second and following tracks it copied and compressed the lot OK.
Not exactly fast, but the quality was fine.
One minor annoyance. After it finished copying each track, it required manual intervention to start the next one. It also defaulted to calling each track the same name. Requiring manual renaming or moving the copied track to a new directory.
Verdict. 7/10 and I’ll use it with thanks.
January 6th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Thanks Paddy.
Catrina, what am I doing wrong with my links? I can’t figure it out.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Paddy & Gaffy. I just tried to run it. The colour was pretty crappy. But I may have a higher resolution monitor than yours. My score 2/10.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
What that means is, if you copy all your DVD’s, then eventually up grade your monitor, they will look pretty crappy.
January 6th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Catrina I have found the problem. I have been using the example provided above, The Sydney Morning Herald Changing the ” ” made it work. I’m not sure why the quotation marks are different.
January 6th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Chris
Well there’s clearly going to be a drop off in quality when you go from 5Gb to 602 Mb.
But the difference in picture quality on my (beautiful) fujitsu 19″ LCD monitor is barely noticeable.
Mind you, I’m sure those “spendthrift types” with their flashy plasma widesceen TVs would no doubt complain.
What media viewer were you using to view the file through?
I use either VLC or media player classic here.
It’s probably just that awful Vista OS you’re using.
BTW
Here’s a great clip on how the Internet developed.
Via Crikey today.
http://vimeo.com/2696386
January 6th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Won’t be long guys i am still learning how to put the DVD in the slot.
January 6th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
36
For Gawd’s sake Gaffy, don’t break the cup holder!!
They’re a bugger to replace.
January 6th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Chris B at 34
With the painful introduction of a couple of special character codes into the example (which make the raw HTML expression practically unreadable) the visual rendering and copy-paste now work as expected.
January 6th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Thanks Catrina.
35 paddy My screen isn’t as good as yours, but the drop in Colour was noticeable. I’ll have to have another go.