At this point, have have most of the functionality of this new site in place. Last night I added the chat, and this morning, completed the code to pull our image feed from Instagram. The following are the things I’m still working on:

1. Typefaces (fonts): I’m having trouble setting the font colors in some of the plugins and on some of the buttons. Specfically, in the chat plugin on every page (sidebar, right), for one example, we get white text on a white background. In other words, it’s invisible. Also, on a lot of the other forms, to post to forums or groups, for instance. That’s terrific if you can type perfectly by feel, but not so good for we mere mortals. I’ve grepped through all the css files from the WP root down to the bottom of the plugin/widget stacks, changed hundreds of occurrences of white fonts on white backgrounds, and no effect, the things remain the same. I’m kinda exhausted atm, but I as soon as I can, I’ll make another pass through the code and find the dang things, I know I’ve just overlooked something is all. This is my top priority, because it must be fixed before we can really ‘use’ the site as intended.

2. Upon log out, the system sometimes throws the mobile profile up, instead of the full size one for laptops, say. You’ll recognize what I mean if after logging out you get a text only screen with all the home page links in a drop down called “menu.” Everything is blue and white, and there’s no sign of any graphics. To be fair, so far I’ve only had it happen on this one computer I use to do the development, and only after I’ve logged into, then out of, the keyholder/admin account. But it’ll continue to alternate between the proper view and the mobile view even after I log in with a different, ordinary account. I wanted to record this anomaly here, just in case someone else experiences it, please add a comment to this post to let me know the circumstances: your device and browser types, what page you were on, or what you were doing when it happened, anything else that might help me recreate or understand the bug.

As far as bugs, I’m not eager to set up a full bug track system yet, that’s a lot of work in itself just to maintain such. But I do encourage anyone with bug reports, help requests, feature improvement suggestions, etc., to post them to the forum: Site Announcements and Help. Keeping with the idea that this is mostly “your” site, our beloved clients and friends, feel free to use that forum link to help each other out as we all learn together how to make best use of this thing we call the Iron Anchor Tattoos Community!

As far as directly reporting bugs and such to me, you can find me on here as @Steve or @IronAnchor, or on Twitter as @St3v3Piper.