After finishing up The Hotel Bookstooge Project, it was evident that I needed another blogging project to keep me busy in the background. But something that wouldn’t disturb everyone quite so much. Bormgans gave a good suggestion that should help anyone searching the site, ie, an Author Index.
While I never use an index if a site has one (I always use the search bar), I’ve heard that other people DO use them, to good effect too. So instead of alienating these good folk of the internet and impeding their unquenchable thirst for all things Bookstooge, I have decided to begin work on an Author Index.
I’ve created a new page and posted the link to it at the top of my home page along with all of my other Important Things. It will slowly fill in over the upcoming year/s. If you are that kind of person, I hope this helps you out a lot. If you are not that kind of person, it will be going on completely in the background so you won’t be bothered or notice a thing. You’re welcome 😉
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I’m considering an Arthur index in which I list films and how closely related they are to the Dudley Moore franchise🙂
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That should keep you busy for at least a whole week, right? 😉
Personally, I’d have gone with the King Arthur motiff so you have more variable to play around with.
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The King Arthur index relates to the Kiera Knightley film. FacT!
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WHICH Kiera Knightley film. She had at least 3 movies she was in….
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The film was entitled ‘King Arthur’, Clive Owen was in it too 🙂
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Oh, I thought maybe Dix was referencing Pride and Prejudice somehow…
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This is the Arthur he meant.
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I wondered about that too. But I couldn’t ever remember Miss Knightley snuggling up to that particular Arthur…..
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I index my history posts but don’t think anyone ever bothers visiting there. I think it’s a good idea to have an author index though.
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I don’t know how much this will get used either. But it will give me something to do and keep me out of trouble 😀
So that all by itself is reason enough, hahahahaha.
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I got one too
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And I’ve never used it even once.
Do you find that anyone does? Or is it more for your own thing?
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I see people make use of it now and then. But I also do it for myself too have a nice overview.
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That is good to know. I hope once I start making some headway that I’ll make use of mine as well.
I guess it’s one of those “If you build it, they will come” kind of things.
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Or…if they don’t come at least you’ll use it. I use mine to re-read posts sometimes when they tie in with new ones. And just to reminisce 😁
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That’s quite the endeavor! Have fun!
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Thanks C&M. It’s relatively easy as I’ve tagged most of my posts with the authors already. So it is just going through and making sure I actually did it for every single one. I can handle that kind of tedium, kind of thrive on it if I manage it correctly 😀
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What’s this? A post with words that requires reading? I don’t know what to do!….
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Hahahahaa! Smart ass 😀
My self-imposed limit on writing is coming to an end, so no more ratings only posts….
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Good to hear 🙂
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Love the construction theme photo in the post.
Wishing you an enjoyable time indexing your site!
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Thanks!
How’s your blogging life going? Haven’t seen you around for awhile.
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It’s going awesome!
Bangkok are reopening for tourist again so more places to explore. I still post only impressive ones though.
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Here’s to what sounds like a monumental endeavor! I tried to keep such a list (authors and titles) while I posted, but soon tired of it (guess I’m lazy….) and left any search to the blog’s engine. 😉
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It helps that I started adding the author as a tag soon after I came to WordPress and then the previous project I simply carried on w that.
So this is more of just checking every review and if necessary adding that author. Tedious but very little typing 🙂
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That is some fine dedicated listings man. I wish I knew how to do it too. I am not a Tag creator kind of person, but I amjealous at how easy you make it look.
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Thankfully, it is easy if you ever want to start 🙂
Especially now that you have a pc.
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You can expect a small email coming in soon asking help….
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You got it….
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Great that you decided to continue building and not demolish!
Any idea how many authors will be in there?
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I’ve got over 4000 books, so a couple hundred perhaps? I’ve never really thought about it.
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You might need multiple index pages. I’ve noticed that my index page with all its links is getting sluggish. But it might be the html anchor that I put in.
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I won’t be doing the html anchor but I’ll have to keep an eye out once it starts filling up.
Thanks for heads up, never would have thought of that
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Been working on this and I’m cross checking everything against Calibre (my Holy Grail of database information) and I just found a handy feature where Calibre shows me how many authors I have. According to it, I have 944. That might be off a couple as I might have some duplicates where letters are substituted for names (CS Lewis and Clive Staples Lewis for example) but that gives a pretty good idea…
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That’s a whole lot of work ahead of you. You’ll need indexing per first letter for sure.
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Or html anchors at the very least.
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Jeroen uses html anchors so I’ve seen how they work and for whatever reason, I don’t like them. I’ll probably end up having to do 26 pages and then use the index to link to each page by letter.
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Once I get it all done I’ll have to look into the feasibility of doing that. I was thinking I had 200-300 but with 900+-, that will definitely get unwieldy quick.
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I’d put in the basic architecture for 26+1 pages first, but maybe it doesn’t matter, although I think it would be terrible to work in one file with 900+ chapers and 4000+ entries.
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On second thought, for that same reason one post/page with html anchors is a terrible idea.
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Indeed.
I am making sure that every author opens up in a new tab though….
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And an A-Z list is now created. SO glad you mentioned this now because if I’d had to copy/paste everything after I’d done all the work, well, that would have been back breaking (or finger breaking really).
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You’re welcome! Glad to have helped a bit!
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I’m just using tags, so once I check that all the posts have that particular author’s tag, then I just have to link it in the Index page. Whether I do that in one page (like I’m currently doing) or on 1 of 26 pages, it ends up being the same. Once the Index becomes unwieldy and scroll’y, then I’ll probably stop and do the 26 page thing though 🙂
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Sounds like another big endeavor. Good luck! But I know you can do it, you are much better at me at plugging away at a long term project 🙂
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Thanks Mogsy.
I think I just like having something to do that’s easy and puts no pressure on me to get done.
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I like the author index idea!
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Thanks. I hope it can help people in the long run.
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Excellent idea. I always wanted to get one up and running too. Do you think a book review index with all the titles would be something relevant too? Or maybe even put the titles into the Author index? 😮
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In a way, that is what I’m doing. Every author will link to their respective book/s read and recorded by me. At over 900 authors I’ve already realized I can’t list all the author links on one page, which is what I was originally hoping to do. So trying to do 4100+ links to titles, well, I am not sure how I would do that without it bloating up into utter uselessness.
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