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I’ve started adding Wikipedia-style tables of content to the articles on the site (songs, albums, people etc). It’ll take a while to add them to all the features (there are hundreds), but it should make it a little easier to jump to sections of interest, and for search engines to index the content.

Here’s an example from Double Fantasy :

@sir walter raleigh said
I’m not sure if this is unique to me, but i’ve gotten locked out pretty much every day, so we will see if it persists. I may ask for a whitelist if nobody else is experiencing it this much.  

Hi. What happens when you get locked out? Is it mid-session, or when you try to log in? Give me as much info as you can and I’ll look into it.

As RN said, it’ll have nothing to do with the new measures, which were only introduced yesterday.

Is it a problem on mobile, or other devices? I know @meanmistermustard has struggled to log in on mobile, and I’m looking into it.

If you could let me know what happens (error messages or anything else) when you try to log in, it would help me isolate the issue.

I’ve made a couple of minor changes to the non-forum part of the site, which I’ve been meaning to do for a while. php code included for reference.

People sometimes ask for publication dates for my articles, normally for citations in papers etc. I’ve added a couple of lines of code to display this, just below the page title:

<?php echo “<strong>Published</strong>: ” . the_date( ”, ”, ”, false); echo ” | <strong>Last updated:</strong> “. the_modified_date( ”, ”, ”, false); ?>

For the historical blog posts I couldn’t use the same code, because I amended the publication date so it looked as though they were published in the 1960s etc. So those don’t show a publication date, but do have the last-updated:

<?php echo “Last updated: “. the_modified_date( ”, ”, ”, false); ?>

Potential search terms: add last modified date updated wordpress publication date php code template php

It’s been quite illuminating, working through them all. Obviously the 80s wasn’t a great time on the whole for Paul, but there are some diamonds in the rough.

I particularly like ‘Be What You See (Link)’ on Tug Of War , which is McCartney trying to do Pink Floyd. It’s slightly McCartney II , and I wish he’d make more experimental records like that.

I’m going to carry on till the McCartney songs list is fully populated, then I might dig a little deeper into collaborations, b-sides etc. If you have suggestions please add them as comments on that page.

After that I’m planning to do George’s songs, which should take a lot less time. I doubt I’ll do Ringo’s at all, apart from maybe the greatest hits and singles.

And when all that’s done, I have plans to properly update the history section with all the stuff that happened from 1970 onwards, though that’s a huge job. I also need to keep my Bowie site ticking over, because that’s half-finished too.