I'm happy to announce that the blog setup here at LQ has been completely redesigned. The new system is completely integrated into the main site, implements traditional blog functionality such as comments and RSS feeds, allows for customization and much more. Did you know you had a blog at LQ? Visit http://www.linuxquestions.org/blog/ for a list of LQ member blogs. From there, simply click "Your Blog" to start your own blog. All content from the old LQ blog system was moved over, and all old blog URL's will redirect to the new system indefinitely. Thanks again goes to david_ross for his continued help.

--jeremy

The link in the above post gives me a data base error

Yes, me too.

I'm not able to reproduce this and am looking into it now.

--jeremy

There was a bug that impacted a small number of members. The bug has been fixed, if you have any additional issues let us know. Thanks.

--jeremy

Yes, it seems OK now. Thanks.

Jeremy
My original intention was to post the on going experiences of a newbie to perhaps help the individual over the trials I traversed. However I may have made a serious mistake in my thinking. Rather then go back and edit my original entry I posted like 2nd installment thinking it would appear below the first. Well I see to the left the links to get to the other posts, but that defeats my purpose. Should I start over, or what

Allen

http://www.linuxquestions.org/blog/t...gcategoryid=-1

Sorry about being a pest, but I discovered the blog but through my own ineptitude the beginning is at the end see link. Please advise a fix or short that I will start over for I have a number of other entries

Thanks so much

texas.chef94, as with all blogs I've seen the posts are structured so that new posts appear on top (same as the forums). We have no plans to implement any kind of sticky posts or ability to change the sorting.

--jeremy

for a while the bb code was on. Now I look and it's off. I was curious as to why there was a change and if there was a setting I could change myself to get it back on.

bb code is indeed enabled for members. Where exactly are you seeing it disabled?

--jeremy

It gives me an error. I read above that the error was fixed so this may be a different one. Using IE7 under Vista.

Edit: Strange. I tried again after posting this and it didn't give me the error.

when I click on 'post to your blog' from the left column when I am looking at one of my blog posts, I'm sent to a screen with a simple text editor but no formatting options, and again on the left I see a box that says 'Posting Rules' and 'BB code is OFF'. This is an example of one of my blogs where I have tried to use the 'bold' bb codes.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/blog/r...est-post-1371/

strangely, the text editor offered to someone wanting to comment on my blog has more options than my original editor.

radiodee1, you should be able to use bb code now. There was an issue that impacted a very small number of members. You can choose which text editor you use in your options under "Message Editor Interface".

--jeremy

thanks. that's great.