What’s New?
The WordPress upgrade for the site I had to do last week lead to me making some changes and additions around Morphians. Here’s the word on some of them;
- New Theme – As I guess is pretty obvious, I changed the WordPress theme I’d been using for the site so there’s a new layout, background, drop-down menu, page header, etc. I’m pretty happy with the look and the new theme makes it possible to include some new stuff.
- Splash Warning Page – I’ve always hated having to have the “Adult Materials” warning show up as a constant part of the home page. Now I’m trying out this splash page thingy where the first time someone visits the site they get directed to a separate page with warning. If visitors have cookies enabled on their comps, they won’t see that page on their next visits. Let me know if it’s giving anyone problems.
- Tag Cloud – Morphians now has like 150 or so pages with a set of pics on them. I figure there may be times when someone would like to be able to find pages where there’s “fucking” going on, or where the setting is “outdoors,” or where the pics have “dark-skinned” boys. So there’s now a Tag Cloud in the right sidebar to help you find such stuff. I’m in the process of going back through pages to add tags for them. For anyone who isn’t up on tag clouds: WP lets me “tag” each gallery type page with words like those to describe the subject matter of the pics on that page. It then keeps track of the number of times any tag shows up. The thing with blue words floating around in the right sidebar is a display of the 20 or so tags that show up most often, with the relative size of the label representing the frequency of a particular tag. If you hold your cursor over any tag it will slow down and turn white – at which point you can click on it and be taken to a place with all the pages where that tag shows up. If you’re looking for a subject that doesn’t show up in the floating thing, like maybe pics where a “leash” shows up, you can click on the “Archive” link at the top of each page to be taken to a place where all of the tags appear.
- Better Gallery Operation – I think I’ve been able to improve the way the sets of pics on each page work. Now, when you click on any pic, it’ll bring up a separate page with just that pic. I hope this makes it easier to grab pics and download them. There’s also still the “Show as slideshow” option on each page, which will launch a slideshow thingy that you can expand to full screen if you so desire.
- Audio for Galleries – Sometimes I feel like the slideshow for a pics gallery would go well with some music. So, on some pages anyway, I’ll be including a link that will play a song that I’ve picked out for the pics on that page. The music doesn’t launch automatically, so you don’t have to be bothered by it if you don’t want.
There’s probably some things I’ve forgotten to mention, and there will be some other new things coming along in the future. So, hope you enjoy the New (and Improved?) Morphians.
And, those of you who have been interested enough to read through all this, are hereby rewarded with an angel:
