As my first somewhat official task, I set out to create a vpatch for mp-wp to add the footnotes¹ and shareable text-selection² features seen on most republican blogs. After some false starts I realized I would first need to set up a proper local dev environment for working with vtools. Luckily I had some time available during the holidays for completing this particular prerequisite, after which I was able to create a working vpatch for mp-wp.

Without further ado, the vpatch, signature, and my key:

http://billymg.com/downloads/mp-wp/mp-wp_add-footnotes-and-textselectionjs.vpatch
http://billymg.com/downloads/mp-wp/mp-wp_add-footnotes-and-textselectionjs.vpatch.billymg.sig
http://billymg.com/downloads/billymg.asc

Pressing

In order to press this patch you will need a keccak-powered v.pl. Diana Coman was kind and patient enough to help me with this and pointed me to her post on the subject. If you are starting out with V for the first time I highly recommend grabbing the starter pack from that post. It works out of the box and will save you a lot of headaches.

Pressing a fresh copy of mp-wp from this vpatch gets you everything included in the genesis vpatch plus:

wp-content/plugins/footnotes.php
wp-content/themes/default/selection-magic.php

As well as a small modification to wp-content/themes/default/single.php and wp-content/themes/default/page.php to wrap post and page content in a unique ID that the selection-magic javascript can reference.

Setup of the footnotes feature followed the directions from hanbot. After setting up mp-wp you'll just need to 'activate' the footnotes plugin in the Plugins section of your wordpress admin panel.

Next task

My next official task, from hanbot this time, is to put together a vpatch to fix a small image reference bug in the genesis vpatch. I've started working on this locally and after sufficient testing will write up another blog post with the new patch.

1. This footnote was generated automatically by enclosing the footnote text in (( ... )) after the word 'footnotes' above. [↩]
2. Go ahead and try this link. [↩]

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