I’ve converted yet another fanlisting to WordPress. This time it’s Ace of Hearts, the Sailor V (Minako Aino/Sailor Venus) x Kaitou Ace (Saijou Ace) fanlisting. I’m still working on migrating members of the old fanlisting over –for whatever reason, it’s not as easy as it has been with other fanlistings, such as Mechanical Innocence or Blue Eyes and Apricots.

I’m also doing a few more aesthetic changes for the site, so if you spot any glitches in your browser, please let me know! Any error codes, screenshots of anything that looks weird, or other problems are all things I want to know about.

If you received an email letting you know to login or create a password for the fanlisting for your account, here’s what to do once you’re on the AOH website: Go to Account > Login and click “Forgot Your Password.” The system will walk you through resetting it. Your username is not the same as your email address, but you can use either to retrieve your password. Enter either your username OR your email, answer the antispam question, and you’ll get a secret key to allow you to reset your password– it’s that easy!

Please check out the newly-revamped fanlisting and let me know what you think!

Azurelist is a fanlisting collective of seven fanlistings; I am slowly migrating them to WordPress, as the script that I used for years, Enthusiast, has gone a very long time without so much as a hint of an update. Furthermore, supporting scripts like CodeSort are no longer compatible with currently-supported PHP engines, and render managing a fanlisting that much more difficult.

Initially, I wanted to try and manually integrate WordPress and Enthusiast, but it’s incredibly difficult to do so without introducing security risks. Instead, I discovered a “membership” solution that mimics much of what Enthusiast and other fanlisting scripts do, in the form of a WordPress plugin.

Now, for the first time, I am happy to announce that Mechanical Innocence, the AnimeFanlistings.com-approved fanlisting for the powerful, playful tanks known as Tachokoma from the hit anime series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, is now powered by WordPress!

All members from the old fanlisting have been moved over. If you want to know how to login and manage your profile, simply go to My Profile > Login and click “Forgot Your Password” and the system will walk you through resetting it. Your username is not the same as your email address, but you can use either to retrieve your password. Enter either your username OR your email, answer the antispam question, and you’ll get a secret key to allow you to reset your password– it’s that easy!

Please check out the newly-revamped fanlisting and let me know what you think!

It’s true: I’m not terribly good with posting updates here as often as I should. I hope that’s something I can change in 2017, especially since I’ll be wrapping up my grad school program in Library and Information Science.

2016 Updates:

• New fanfiction status page (also in the Fanfiction menu for quick access anytime)
• Joined Patreon — if you like this site, its content (including writing), please consider supporting me there!
• Continuing the migration of fanlistings from Enthusiast to WordPress (using UserPro)

We’re now on WordPress 4.7, and I’ve gotten rid of a lot of themes and plugins that were otherwise slowing the network down.

Hopefully 2017 Updates:

For the coming year, I hope to complete a few projects as well as embark upon a few others:

• Complete the migration of all fanlistings on Azurelist to WordPress powered by UserPro
• Continue to update Along the Way, the CleopatraWolf Azureshipping comic inspired by a fanfiction written by Flashchimp
• Migrate WikiFic to a new platform – Currently powered by MediaWiki, but it’s a pain to update. Ideally, there would be some sort of WordPress-powered Wiki plugin, but I’ve yet to find a good option for this. Suggestions are welcomed!
• Get Epiphany (my personal fanfiction archive) up and running, powered by eFiction 5
  • Update the Seto Kaiba x Anzu Mazaki archive Dragonfayth to the latest eFiction software

Sorry for the radio silence, folks. I have been updating things on the back end, but content-wise, there’s not a lot new here…yet.

Plans are in the works to convert all of the Enthusiast-powered fanlistings to WordPress sites using a plugin called UserPro, and hopefully I will also be able to convert WikiFic into a new, also WordPress-powered encyclopedia–not just for Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfiction readers and writers, but also fans in general, who find the other Yu-Gi-Oh! wikis out there lacking in unique, original, and detailed content.

Truthfully the MediaWiki platform is bloated and difficult to work with: it requires a special method of updating, not all extensions have version numbers, and sometimes even when extensions are updated, the version number isn’t properly changed in the extension itself!

The most recent update brings stability and security to the platform, but it has left me unfortunately unable to confirm new user accounts or even post new pages without a fatal error that I have had little luck understanding.

If you have suggestions for better wiki-like software, especially those that work with WordPress, your comments are greatly appreciated!