Tips
SqueeZing the most juice out of your atheistZone
Expect (over time) some tips to get split or merged with other posts or topics to make them easier for everyone to find and read. All donations appreciated!
* Newbie Notes 1) For any group, CLICK THE “Forum” BUTTON (below) to see topics!!! 2) Use the Favorite button in your favorite topics so I can place the most useful and popular submissions near the top of the list.
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic
Your Personal Scratch Zones in the forum Tips 1 year ago
JUST A TEST OF A LINK AND AN EMBED
Link to a song on Soundcloud:
An embed to a song on Soundcloud:
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic
Your Personal Scratch Zones in the forum Tips 1 year, 6 months ago
I write like an idiot, often. As a moderator I can edit my posts for hours, and I do that way too often. I don’t leave behind a trail of explanations of these edits, as they are often so numerous and the corrections I make are largely just typos and necessary clarifications to thoughts written too quickly. I often think that since I feel strongly…[Read more]
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Tips 2 years, 5 months ago
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic
Your Personal Scratch Zones in the forum Tips 2 years, 6 months ago
LONDON
DUBLIN
MAINE
SAN FRANCISCO
UKRAINE
SPAIN
Clock HTML source, if you know how to edit a web page:
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Your Personal Scratch Zones in the forum Tips 2 years, 6 months ago
Advanced Tip How to add quote blocks from posts that are on a different page. This is a continuation of the post directly above, so make sure you understand how that works, first.
blah blah blah [work in progress… this may take me some time to write].
Quick summary: Click the post #ID number and create a new tab for it; Highlight the desired…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic
Your Personal Scratch Zones in the forum Tips 2 years, 6 months ago
I now use this topic area for temporarily editing posts until they’re acceptable to be published. In fact THIS post that you’re reading is a work in progress.The following tip will be too much trouble for some… maybe I’m the only poster here who needs to use it consistently… like practically every time I write any post! Here’s my new… -
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Your Personal Scratch Zones in the forum Tips 2 years, 6 months ago
Feel free to start a new post below, to experiment with what works or doesn’t work in terms of editing features, and so on. You may leave your posts here, or delete them, or if you want to delete a post but can’t, leave another post below asking me to delete it.
I’ll leave up an example of my own scratch zone, including “PopeBeanie” in its title.…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic
test only in the forum Tips 4 years, 3 months ago
To wit:
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic
FAQ in the forum Tips 4 years, 3 months ago
The potentially confusing thing about Groups
TLDR: The first thing to notice when you click a link that takes you to a group page is: Are you now on the group’s Home page, or the group’s Forum page? Home is for updates, Forum is for posts in topics.
I’ll illustrate each page.
1) The Group’s Home page only shows updates, which you can add to. …[Read more]
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Tips 4 years, 3 months ago
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic
"Bug or feature?", and other Minor/Arcane Issues in the forum Tips 4 years, 11 months ago
edited in one more paragraph to the tip. whoops! 🙂
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic
"Bug or feature?", and other Minor/Arcane Issues in the forum Tips 4 years, 11 months ago
The “time out” seems to start the countdown from when you login rather than from when you last posted something. It does not seem to matter if you are actively posting each day, once a week or even if you are active at the time the countdown ends.
The countdown should be resetting itself each time activity is detected – i.e. after a post is…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer joined the group
Tips 4 years, 11 months ago
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Tips 5 years, 5 months ago
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PopeBeanie posted an update in the group
Tips 5 years, 5 months ago
Renamed and updated topic “Adding Photos, Videos, and Other File Links to a Post” to included short hint for how to add links to personal cloud files, e.g. PDFs. (See https://atheistzone.com/groups/tips/forum/topic/adding-photos-and-videos-to-a-post/#post-2345 )
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PopeBeanie posted an update in the group
Tips 5 years, 7 months ago
I’ve updated the Searching AtheistZone and ThinkAtheist topic in the Tips Forum.
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic
test only in the forum Tips 5 years, 9 months ago
Simple graphic test
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic
"Bug or feature?", and other Minor/Arcane Issues in the forum Tips 5 years, 10 months ago
BUG (imo):
While logged in, I wrote a post, and after clicking on the Submit button, instead of posting it, the page I was on just refreshed and what I had written was just… gone, with no clue as to why!
By rare coincidence and with no warning, my WordPress/AZ login had expired while I was writing, and didn’t handle it with sufficient grace,…[Read more]
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