New domain! Though you probably have noticed this if you are reading this message… but the site is now proudly available at www.tradereadingorder.com!
If you haven’t noticed, the name is pretty general and hints at non-dc usages in the pipeline.
I’m going to continue tweaking the theme, functions, and plugins and I’m hoping in the next few days I will be basically done with architecture and can focus on content. Everything important to organize your books along the basic reading order is already in, but I need to add a lot more content before the other reading orders will start to work. Plus content makes everything look full, pretty, and satisfying. That means next week I’ll be focused on covers, tags, and info!
Did a bunch of work in the backend to make my life easier (my wp admin search now works on the meta data (all my custom stuff) instead of just wimpily on the title and stuff… so I can batch edit posts quicker.) Then to test that out I tagged all the vertigo universe books currently in site (I have more, all the universe relevant ones, anyway, all ready to be uploaded. I’ll do that after I’ve got it so they don’t display in the main DC timeline… only a few of them belong there. After they break off, they sort of have their own playground, though there are sometimes cameos both ways. I included important mainstream dc imprint releases in that vertigo page.
Likewise, organized the couple wildstorm books.
Added custom taxonomies for “Creator” (example: Jack Kirby) and “Series” (Example: “Greatest Stories Ever Told“). Tags are now used for Characters (Example: “Superman” or “Deadman“) and Categories for Lists (Example: “Post-Crisis“).
Although books have been categorized into the Split Crisis Reading Order and Chronological lists, the custom formatting that will allow those reading orders to work is not implemented yet, so for now they will still show in the recommended reading order.
Decided to eat a bowl of cereal.
I’ve set the background to be fixed and let the content scroll over it. I want it to also resize to the vertical height of the browser window, while still repeating horizontally, but I haven’t been able to get that to work yet. I’ll try again later. Right now, I’m gonna focus on some custom taxonomies stuff for a little bit.
All information is now correctly displayed on the book’s individual page. The only title that currently has all information entered, as of this update, is Superman Chronicles Volume One. Feel free to take a look at that one to see how each title will be displayed and what kind of information you can hope to find.
