As a test of video embedding, a time lapse animation of 24 hours in the chicken box:

Looks like (after switching to a better flvplayer plugin) it works. Hooray!

If I’ve done this right, clicking on any of those images should get you a shadowbox slide show. (Looks like it worked. Now I just have to get the admin interface to flickr photo insertion cleaned up a bit. I’ve modified WP-Flickr to work with Shadowbox JS and Mbedr.)

Also, those are the chickens at five days old.

I just got a notice that the domain registration is coming due on houseofcranks, which means it’s been almost a year and we haven’t done anything with it. With all the happenings here at the House of Cranks this year, it may be time to remedy that. So I wiped and reinstalled WordPress. I’m still working out what plugins/themes I want, but here’s a running summary as I go along:

Plugins

• Star Ratings – lets us add ratings, like this:
  Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
• Gravatars2 – gives us user avatars in the comments
• Wordpress Flickr Manager – easy integration with Flickr
  Although I’m not sure how it’s going to work when both Cam and I have Flickr accounts. Maybe we’ll have to make a group pool for cranks stuff.

To do:

• Cross-posting. It’d be nice to either syndicate posts from sculpin and elsewhere or cross-post entries from here to there. There doesn’t appear to be a wp to wp crossposter yet, though. Weird.
• Mobile/accessible theme
  Installed Wordpress Mobile Edition, still have to check accessibility.
• Comment subscription via email. People actually seem to use it at elsewhere, so… *shrug*
• del.icio.us/twitter sidebar?
• Paged comments? I don’t know if that’ll be possible with k2, or if it’s even going to be a problem.

Functionality

To do:

• Wiki for garden notes?
• Cookbook?
• Amazon affiliate thing for crank-powered items?
• What else?