@RM Thanks! I'll turn on the admin right for you then

I'm a bit confused. Yesterday I could login, but today all buttons are gone on the blog site..

@halirutan Try here.

@Szabolcs Was there a way to know this? I feel stupid..

@halirutan Reading WordPress docs or remembering yesterday's URL ... no, I think there isn't, but I'm new to WordPress as well.

@Szabolcs ok.

@halirutan I set up WordPress once locally on a Linux laptop, just to play with it. I didn't spend more than 2 hours with it. I remembered from that time.

@Szabolcs hmmm... I don't think I see any admin tools? Where should I be looking?

@RM Try again (please reload it, or re-login if needed).

Alright, got it. Thanks :)

@RM When I wrote that, you have not yet confirmed your registration, so I couldn't switch roles.

ah I see... yes, I just woke up :)

@RM Currently GraceNote is responsible for the SE blogs, and this is the chatroom if there are problems.

great, thanks

I will have internet access while away, but I don't know how often I'll log in.

People were suggesting to have an introductory blog post at the same time with graduation. Writing and polishing that would be the next step.

room topic changed to Mathematica.SE blog: for contributors and editors of the Mathematica.SE blog (no tags)

@RM I'm curious how fast the new posts will keep coming. Leonid thinks we an easily manage two posts per month, but I suggested to aim low instead, and let people write because they feel like, and not because they have to ... if there are too many posts, we can always publish more frequently.

@Szabolcs we probably can, but we'll get there in a month or two... people who have other blogs (or frequently write answers that are blog posts :P) might find it easier to sit down and have a continuous stream of words for a full post, but for those that don't, it might be hard. It's good that we got it now — gives us a bit of time to work on things and familiarize before the site graduates

@RM I guess graduation is expected in a couple of weeks, the only missing piece being the new design? It might happen before I come back.

@Szabolcs yeah, I think so... usually once the final design is live, that's it

I can't wait!

Probably a silly question, but how do I use MathJax in a blog?

@Heike Same as anywhere.

$$

@Heike a double $ should work, but I didn't figure out the single $ yet

even though the docs say it should work: wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mathjax-latex

When you install the interpreter (link in main chat room), you can use it anywhere after.

@CHM Would you like an account too?

@Szabolcs sure, but I'm definitely in the "easier, faster" category.

@CHM Blog posts should not need any extra bookmarklet to display math properly ... MathJax has been enabled for our blog, but I didn't manage to figure out how to write inline math yet ... are you familiar with the WordPress MathJax plugin?

@Szabolcs Oh, great then. I'm not. I thought the interpreter wasn't working.

@CHM That doesn't do anything. It just shows up as $$...$$ in the preview.

@Heike make sure that you write MarkDown in the "HTML" view (not visual view)! Otherwise it won't work. I'm looking at your post and the brackets seem to be escaped

@Szabolcs That's what I did

@Heike it might be caused by you blocking JS on some sites?

I.E using NoScript?

@Heike I tampered with your post a bit, take a look :-) (in HTML view)

I removed the backslash from [mathjax] and I used a $$ for display math

@Szabolcs @Heike try to add [mathjax] to the post.

@Szabolcs Beaten by a second.

If all else fails, take a look at this plugin

@Szabolcs It's working now. I'm pretty sure I tried that before, but it wasn't working then.

@Heike I'm not sure why your [mathjax] tag was escaped, I think that was the problem. I saw \[mathjax] in the editor.

Is there a shortcut for formatted code like on SO/SE, or do I need to use the <pre><code> tags?

@Heike You can use MarkDown if you wish, no need to use <pre><code>. I'll look into shortcuts, just a moment ....

@Szabolcs I've tried it with and without escaped brackets, but neither worked before.

The QuickLaTeX plugin is at version 3.7.9, it looks more active than MathJax-LaTeX.

@CHM We can't install custom plugins, we need to use what is provided by SE.

@Heike the standard 4 leading spaces works for setting up a code block.

@Szabolcs Markdown is fine for me at the moment.

@Szabolcs Doh.

@CHM but, if we really need one, we can beg for it.

@rcollyer Hehe.

@Szabolcs it seems to get an inline formula you have to use [latex] ... [/latex] instead of $ ... $.

See my draft.

@rcollyer \( and \) work for me as well

@rcollyer have you added [mathjax] somewhere in your document?

Incidentally, I marked it as shared (for the next 10 days), so feel free to look at it.

@CHM yes.

@rcollyer Weird.

@Heike that does not appear to work for me.

@rcollyer Strange, it works in a <h1> header for me, but for normal text I need to use \\( and \\)

@Heike doubling the `\` seems to work.

Does [ ] work?

\[ \]

@CHM \\[ and \\] work for me

@Heike So you have to double slash?

@CHM Yes

Hmm.

I should go. Talk to you all later.

Bye

Bye

anybody out there?