Sunday, August 5, 2007

Test part 1

This is a test. This is only a test: if this had been reality, you'd have been in real trouble.


And what am I testing? I am very impressed with Past Imperfect's stories of travels, in which she creates a sequence of posts describing a trip, and the posts march down the page in the obviously correct, yet chronologically reverse, order.
Naturally I asked if there was some neat trick she used to do this!


Yours, ab initio,
N.
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2 comments:

Bernie said...

Hey!!

Thanks for stopping by...

Now, what is the trick you used?? Was it a simple one?? Please tell...

August 5, 2007 at 9:11 PM
BreadBox said...

Read the posts further down the blog: she didn't use a neat trick: I faked using a neat trick: I'll try rewriting it here, because I clearly messed it up down below!

First, figure out how many posts you'll need: overestimate rather than under, because you can't fix it later if you create too few! (Well, you can, but it's a royal pain!)

Now, suppose you decide you need 3 posts in total and your titles are going to be
Title A
Title 2
Title (iii)

First start to create Title(iii), and save it as a draft (don't publish it yet): get the title correct right from the start if you can:
Now start to create Title 2, save it as a draft (again, don't publish it yet): again, get the title right:
Now start composing Title A as you would a normal posting. Once you are done with it, publish it as you would a normal post.
The drafts will remain hidden for now. Now work on Title 2, and once you've finished writing it, publish it: you'll now see the first two parts.
Now work on Title (iii), and when done, publish it.

The entire series you've written will appear in the order
Title A
Title 2
Title (iii)
even though you've written (most of) them in that same order!

The advantage of this is that you only need to create the titles in order ahead of time to make things work: you don't need to actually compose the entire series of posts in reverse!

If you end up needing fewer parts than you created titles for, just delete the remaining parts and they'll be gone!

N.

August 5, 2007 at 9:22 PM

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