For now, I’m happy to say the site update is feature complete, baring re-adding in the older PDF pages etc, which is going to take time and have to do manually, but I can do a few bits of that per day (so I don’t mentally burn out etc)
Switching to the catalogue system has made it a LOT easier, with searchable tags, catagories, product hilights and so on, all of which get auto populated as I add in new gens, pdfs and the like.
It also has the foundation ready for if i go down the self selling route – which legally speaking is a fiddly and complicated matter, but this now makes things easier and i (hopefully) don’t have to rebuild everything from scratch again if that occurs.
New & Tweaked features
- Search bar that actually works
- Searchable filter Tag system that checks all “products” (products indludes gens, tools, etc) , along with a type-in-what-tag-you-looking-for field
- Filters when searching
- Random/Rotating hilights for both tools and pdf in seprate footer widgets
- Random/Rotating hilighlights for other sites I’m connected to like twitch, Bluesky and support sites like Patreon etc.
- Comments/Star Ratings system in place for both tools and PDF (with links to where to get for things being sold), and a “filter by rating” system attached to it
- New Front page Layout
- CENTERED LOGO (been trying to sort that for years, seems like it was an old theme issue)
- Collaspeable catagories (with sub categories when appropriate)
- Behind the scenes – Able to bulk upload posts and pages , then I can release as and when needed
- Behind the scenes – As mentioned above, the search, menus, tags, hilights etc now auto populate , but only If i add them in as I upload, if i forget, they won’t…no Gen-AI/LLM used here ! This is what was taking the longest, getting the foundations with this sorted
- Easier to now switch to new themes/designs without having to rebulding eveything each time.
- Some CSS and code tweaks to help with minor annoyaces I was having
There is, as the title suggests, more to come, but needed to get the framework in place before any of this could be done.
I’ve learnt my lesson finally and these are PLANNED , with no definate timeline sadly, as IRL things have a habbit of going “not today pal!” and yes some ideas may be postposted or even dropped if they prove to be too fiddly or just incomtaible with how things are working (hopefully not)
- RSS feed pages (such as TTRPG news, DTRPG cataloge with marked affliate links etc), these can be tempremental
- Bulk Upload Template – There *MAY* be some weird posts comeing from this, espially if i mess this up, but once done, will help a LOT
- This will be for samples, hilights, lists etc, things outside of the other more regular posts, like PDF releases
- Non Ennead Games Resources section, along with another “hilight” widget?
- artists
- tools/software
- map assets
- websites/subbreddits
- other stuff
- More stuff what I’ve forgooten about or not thought of yet!
