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By | Tuesday, June 29, 2010 | 2:37 am | 0 Comments | Blog > Database Updates

I’ve placed these books in the DCU reading order. They’re out-of-continuity titles accessible to readers of any age.

All Ages: Tiny Titans Vol. 1: Welcome To The Treehouse

All Ages: Tiny Titans Vol. 2: Adventures in Awesomeness

All Ages: Tiny Titans Vol. 3: Sidekickin’ It

All Ages: Tiny Titans Vol. 4: The First Rule of Pet Club

All Ages: Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade

All Ages: Super Friends: For Justice!

All Ages: Super Friends Vol. 2: Calling All Super Friends

All Ages: Super Friends Vol. 3: Head Of The Class

That’s it for now. I’ve got to do a bunch of placing in the offline database before getting to the next batch of Unplaced Books.

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By | Tuesday, June 29, 2010 | 2:12 am | 0 Comments | Blog > Database Updates

Why didn’t anyone tell me the reading order pagination wasn’t working? :-/

Well, it was kind of working – just seemed to cut out around page 27. I didn’t get it, until I realized that for the pagination it was only counting “posts” and not custom post types. Once I moved the call for the pagination to right below the query, it seemed to fix the problem. Except the header still doesn’t show on those extra few pages.

Very weird!

In any case, all the important information shows up so I’m not going to worry too much about that. Moving the query and pagenavi code is probably a temp fix though, since I’d prefer to have the pagenavi loading in the header so I don’t have to hard code it into each page.

I’m gonna hit up the wordpress forums and see if anyone knows what to do about the rest. Very frustrating weirdness.

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By | Tuesday, June 29, 2010 | 1:44 am | 0 Comments | Blog > Database Updates

It’s amazing how far I’ve come with this DC reading order. I started it out a few years ago as just a way to organize my Batman comics and now I’m adding in Teen Titans Go. Only 160 books left on the unplaced list (before this update) and a lot of those are upcoming releases or hardcover deluxe/absolute versions of titles currently placed on other lists! So close to “complete” – or at least “up to date!”

Here are the books from this update, mainly a bunch of DC Animated Universe titles:

Super Friends!: Your Favorite Television Super-Team is Back! – These collected issues are actually in continuity at the time it came out.

Super Friends!: Truth, Justice and Peace! – This book is also in the main DC continuity.

DC Animated: The Batman Adventures – This and the others here are either in the DC Animated Universe or their own self contained continuity

DC Animated: Batman: The Dark Knight Adventures

DC Animated: The Batman Adventures: Dangerous Dames and Demons

DC Animated: The Batman Adventures: Mad Love and Other Stories

DC Animated: Superman Adventures: Adventures of the Man Of Steel

DC Animated: Batman And Superman Adventures: World’s Finest

DC Animated: The Batman Adventures: The Lost Years

DC Animated: Batman: Gotham Adventures

DC Animated: Batman Beyond

DC Animated: Superman Adventures Vol. 1: Up, Up and Away (Digest)

DC Animated: Superman Adventures Vol. 2:  The Never-Ending Battle (Digest)

DC Animated: Superman Adventures Vol. 3: Last Son Of Krypton (Digest)

DC Animated: Superman Adventures Vol. 4: Man Of Steel (Digest)

DC Animated: Justice League Adventures

DC Animated: Justice League Adventures Vol. 1: The Magnificent Seven (Digest)

DC Animated: Justice League Adventures Vol. 2: Friends and Foes (Digest)

DC Animated: The Batman Adventures Vol. 1: Rogues’ Gallery (Digest)

DC Animated: The Batman Adventures Vol. 2: Shadows and Masks (Digest)

DC Animated: The Batman Strikes Vol. 1: Crime Time (Digest)

DC Animated: The Batman Strikes Vol. 2: In Darkest Knight (Digest)

DC Animated: The Batman Strikes Vol. 3: Duty Calls

DC Animated: Teen Titans Go! Vol. 1: Truth, Justice, Pizza! (Digest)

DC Animated: Teen Titans Go! Vol. 2: Heroes On Patrol (Digest)

DC Animated: Teen Titans Go! Vol. 3: Bring It On! (Digest)

DC Animated: Teen Titans Go! Vol. 4: Ready for Action! (Digest)

DC Animated: Teen Titans: Jam Packed Action!

DC Animated: Teen Titans Go! Vol. 5: On The Move (Digest)

DC Animated: Teen Titans Go! Vol. 6: Titans Together (Digest)

DC Animated: Justice League Unlimited Vol. 1: United They Stand (Digest)

DC Animated: Justice League Unlimited Vol. 2: World’s Greatest Heroes (Digest)

DC Animated: Justice League Unlimited Vol. 3: Champions of Justice (Digest)

DC Animated: Justice League Unlimited Vol. 4: The Ties That Bind

DC Animated: Justice League Unlimited Vol. 5: Heroes

DC Animated: Batman: The Brave and The Bold

DC Animated: Billy Batson and The Magic of Shazam!

DC Animated: Batman: The Brave and The Bold Vol. 2: The Fearsome Fangs Strike Again

And that’s that for DC Animated!

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By | Monday, June 28, 2010 | 10:40 am | 0 Comments | Blog > Database Updates

Hooboy! Everything is finally fixed, after a few hour push there. Those last few pages of posts were the worst, my eyes are pretty much shutting on their own on this point.

So I’m gonna go take a nap, but let me know if you see any blank pages or weird double displaying pages (loading once, and then right again on top of each other). These should all be fixed, but it’s possible that some thing like that would come up if a book or post is accidentally in the blog AND comics category or if it’s not in either category.

Pretty sure they’re all set, though. I also made sure each blog post is only in one sub-category, like “Updates” or “Essays.”

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By | Monday, June 28, 2010 | 8:49 am | 0 Comments | Blog > Database Updates

In order to add in more custom layouts (instead of just two) I had to switch the comic book collected edition layout to display for items in the category “Comics” – meaning that any book which are not yet categorized into that major category instead of just their sub categories are not displaying – in fact, the whole page for those books is not displaying!

I’m going as fast as I can through all of them, but I can only do 20 at a time, and the poor shared server has a tendency to crash/run out of memory when doing that.. so it takes a bit to get through. I’ve got everything but DC done so far, and about 1600 books to go.

Stay tuned for update!

(random note – I was getting myself through this tedium by telling myself that I was biding the time while an ebay auction counted down, and then while writing this little update post I missed it, after waiting 4 hours. I was outbid, but could have bid myself up 50 cents more and gotten in. rargh! Frustrating night/morning.)

Update: 900 fixed so far (9:30 am)

FIXED 10:29 AM

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