FAQ

Q. How do I add an avatar?

A. WordPress blogs use Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatars) to insert avatars into comments and posts. So how do you do it? Well, first you’ll want to go to http://www.gravatar.com and sign up. Make sure you use an e-mail address that you will sign into here with, because that’s how it knows how to attach your gravatar. Various blogs and other sites throughout the internet use Gravatars as well. So simply by attaching your avatar to an e-mail address, your avatar will automatically be used on any Gravatar supporting site that you login with that e-mail address with. Once you’re signed up on http://www.gravatar.com, be sure to add your avatar pic. It might take a few minutes to completely attach in posts.

Q. Hey Racki, do you look like your avatar pic?

A. Not a damn thing. For an explanation of the avatar, see below. However if you look closely in Steve-O’s avatar, you can actually pick him out. Sorry Steve-O.

Q. Just what does “Putting on the Foil” mean?

A. The site name comes from the epic hockey movie “Slapshot“. If you haven’t seen it yet, then you need to get your butt to the video store. The hockey players taped foil on their hands to give them an advantage in a fight.

Q. Ok, so what do your screen names mean?

A. Well, Steve-O is pretty unoriginal. So you can guess where his name comes from. Trogdor is a character from Homestar Runner, he is a creation of the character Strong Bad. As for Racki, Racki is a character from the much less epic 80′s hockey movie Youngblood. He was the antagonist of the movie – Carl Racki of the goon for the Thunderbay Bombers. Racki’s avatar is an actual picture of the character in the movie. I recommend it as a rental for cheap laughs, but back in the day the movie was awesome (another childhood memory ruined when I caught this one on TV recently).

Q. How do I add links, images, and change text formatting?

A. Putting On The Foil supports some BB Code:

[b] (text goes here) [/b] – tags bold something

[i] (text goes here) [/i] – add italics

[u] (text goes here) [/u] – adds underline

[img="URL goes here"] – adds an image

[url="URL goes here"]Displayed Text[/url] – adds a link

For a bulleted list:

[ul]

[li]Text 1[/li]

[li]Text 2[/li]

[li]Text 3[/li]

[/ul]

[color=red]Red Text[/color]

[color=FF6600] Colored Text[/color]

Q. How do I add emoticons / smilees to my post?

A. Refer to this chart here:

Have a question you want answered? Either send an e-mail to contact@puttingonthefoil.com or use the “contact us” selection from the site menu, under help.

By Racki October 15, 2009

10 Comments to “FAQ”

By Mr.Majestyk, November 14, 2009 @ 10:21 am Mr.Majestyk(Quote)

cheap shot on Patrick Swayze!
By Racki, November 14, 2009 @ 10:30 am Racki(Quote)

lol

Most people won’t get that, but that’s hilarious.
By Mr.Majestyk, November 14, 2009 @ 10:36 am Mr.Majestyk(Quote)

I’m just trying to get my photo up from Gravatar and its not seeming to work. I cleared my cache so hopefully that works now. I’m just an invisible man here.

Ok. Working now.
By victoriaoilerfan, June 20, 2010 @ 3:48 pm victoriaoilerfan(Quote)

Mr.Majestyk: I’m just trying to get my photo up from Gravatar and its not seeming to work. I cleared my cache so hopefully that works now. I’m just an invisible man here.Ok. Working now.

testing my gravatar as well
By victoriaoilerfan, June 20, 2010 @ 3:51 pm victoriaoilerfan(Quote)

victoriaoilerfan: testing my gravatar as well

Now for a dumb question. How do I use emotes on this site? I don’t have a toolbar for bolding as well?
By gr8one, June 20, 2010 @ 4:03 pm gr8one(Quote)

You just gotta “code” the emoticons properly, refer to the following link.

http://anidandesign.com/wordpress/emoticons-and-wordpress/

As far as “bolding” goes, you gotta code that as wel, but not sure what what that code is since I’ve never tried to do it.
By Racki, June 20, 2010 @ 4:20 pm Racki(Quote)

Yah, a bit of a pain in the butt to add that sort of stuff. But you can use some BBCode here now (note: remove spacing in tags):

[ b ] (text goes here) [ /b ] tags bold something
[ i ] (text goes here) [ /i ] add italics
[ u ] (text goes here) [ /u ] adds underline
[ img="URL goes here" ] adds an image
[ url="URL goes here" ] adds a link

For a bulleted list:
[ ul ]
[ li ]Text 1[ /li ]
[ li ]Text 2[ /li ]
[ li ]Text 3[ /li ]
[ /ul ]

[ color=red ]Red Text[ /color ]
[ color=FF6600 ] Colored Text[ /color ]

The help section above has been updated to include all this information now.
By gr8one, June 20, 2010 @ 4:37 pm gr8one(Quote)

lol…I wish I had of realized that it was as simple as using BBCode for some of those things…
By Racki, June 20, 2010 @ 4:45 pm Racki(Quote)

hah, don’t worry, it’s actually brand new (I just installed a plug-in). The only way (as far as I know) for you regular folks to add that stuff before was to comment first, and then edit the comment after (which gives you a whole toolbar of stuff to use). God only knows why WordPress designed it that way.
By victoriaoilerfan, June 21, 2010 @ 10:26 am victoriaoilerfan(Quote)

victoriaoilerfan wrote:

victoriaoilerfan: testing my gravatar as well
Now for a dumb question. How do I use emotes on this site? I don’t have a toolbar for bolding as well?