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Traveller News/Email tracker Plugin Details

Description

This plugin adds a shortcode to allow a user to save messages sent from a system in the Spinward Marches and to display what messages have arrived at the same system. The messages are saved in the user's browser and do not leave it.

The following assumptions are made:

Only covers the Spinward Marches (plus Capital and Zhdant)
X-boats jumps take 7 days, but don't jump further than the next system on the route even if a further system is within Jump-4
If two systems are Jump-3 apart then add together the population stats from their UWPs. If the total is more than 17 it's a day for a message to find a ship making the jump. If the total is more than 13, it's 23 days to find a ship and otherwise these systems only get a ship once a year. (It's worth noting here that we ignore travel code status (assume that the ship is a supply vessel of some sort) and the value of 14 allows Andory and Candory to be connected to Wonstar.
If two systems are Jump-2 apart then again add together the population stats from the their UWPs. Between 15 and 20 it's a day to find a ship. Between 11 and 14 it's 8 days to find a ship and otherwise it's 53 days to find a ship. (if both systemss have an A class starport that overrides the population total and we assume it's a day to find a ship)
If two systems are Jump-1 apart then yet again add toegther the population stats from their UWPs. If the total is more than 10 it's a day to find a ship, if the total is between 5 and 10, it's 8 days to find a ship, and otherwise it's 23 days. However the starports are also checked. If either starport is an X class starport it's 83 days to find a ship and if that's not the case but one of the starports is an A starport it's just a day to find a ship.
Once a ship is found it takes 7 days to make the jump and transfer any messages
Capital is 500 days via X-boats from the Trailing edge of the Spinward Marches. Zhdant is 255 days from Errere

Version: 3.360.0
Author: David Vines
Last Updated: 2026-08-16T08:46:16Z
Requires WordPress Version: 4.0 or higher
Tested up to: 7.0.4
License: Contains materials from Mongoose which are used by following the Mongoose fair use policy. The code elements were written solely by myself.
The Traveller game in all forms is owned by Mongoose Publishing. Copyright 1977 - 2024 Mongoose Publishing. Traveller is a registered trademark of Mongoose Publishing. Mongoose Publishing permits web sites and fanzines for this game, provided it contains this notice, that Mongoose Publishing is notified, and subject to a withdrawal of permission on 90 days notice. The contents of this site are for personal, non-commercial use only. Any use of Mongoose Publishing’s copyrighted material or trademarks anywhere on this web site and its files should not be viewed as a challenge to those copyrights or trademarks. In addition, any program/articles/files on this site cannot be republished or distributed without the consent of the author who contributed it.

In particular note that this page explicitly does not grant consent to republish or distribute this plugin.

Change Log

3.360.0 - 16 August 2026

If the received times are equal sort by sent times

3.357.0 - 09 August 2026

Bug fix - Broken message saving!

3.356.0 - 09 August 2026

Bug fix - ship jumps cause loop when calculating route after the initial starting point for a message

3.355.0 - 09 August 2026

Ensure all possible jumps are recorded (Some systems in the left (spinward) side of the map weren't correctly connected)

3.354.0 - 09 August 2026

Allow a Jump-3 once a year - normally this will be overtaken by Jump-1 or Jump-2 ships but some worlds have only Jump-3 neighbours - this connnects those worlds as well

3.353.0 - 09 August 2026

Add support for player ship jumps that also take messages (and can overtake the normal message transmissions)

3.352.0 - 08 August 2026

Code rework, Add edit button (Can only edit the body of messages, not the subject), rework route finding

3.351.0 - 04 August 2026

Bug Fix

3.350.0 - 04 August 2026

Add Egyrn and Pax Rulin subsectors

3.349.0 - 03 August 2026

Add XBoat skip routes in the Sword Worlds as well. Change time for Zhodani, Darrian and Sword Worlds XBoat routes to a total of 8 days since, technically, they are just trade routes rather than XBoat routes

3.348.0 - 03 August 2026

Adjust styling and add Xboat routes that jump intermediate stops (but still limited to Jump-4 of course)

3.346.0 - 02 August 2026

Fix slug

3.345.0 - 02 August 2026

Initial Version - pre-alpha

The information on this page was retrieved by Plugin Information Version 3.282.0.

WordPress

I've developed a set of wordpress plugins (and a theme) to help with this site. So far there's the following:

Plugins

Themes

caporil theme - the three column theme used on this very website!
caporil child theme - the child theme used for customisations specific to this website
ningxia theme - the precessor to caporil
NingxiaChild theme - the child theme used for customisations specific to this website

This page last updated on August 2, 2026 at 16:04 pm

Plugin Information Plugin Details

Description

This plugin adds the ability to show the description and change log of one of my plugins in a similar way to that provided by the wordpress admin pages. In support of this, the plugin provides three shortcodes:

pluginInformation

This shortcode provides the description and other information about the plugin. Additional information may be added into the right handbox of the generated table by placing the text inside of the shortcode. The additional text will be placed inside a list item (<li> tag)

Example of use
[pluginInformation slug="LatinSquares"]<strong>License:</strong> GPL v2[pluginInformation]

If the attachment attribute is provided on the shortcode, links will be updated to point to the attachment page instead of the direct download page. For example
[pluginInformation slug="LatinSquares" attachment="true"]

If the nolink attribute is provided on the shortcode, the link itself will be suppressed (the text of the link itself will remain) For example
slug="LatinSquares" nolink="true"]

If the homepage attribute is provided on the shortcode, a link to the plugin's homepage will be added to the information panel. For example
[pluginInformation slug="LatinSquares" homepage="true"]

pluginInformationChangeLog

This shortcode provides the change log for the plugin

Example of use
[pluginInformationChangeLog slug="LatinSquares"]

You can ask for only the first few sections of the change log (as introduced by h4 tags in the change log) by specifying 'latest' on the shortcode, for example:
[pluginInformationChangeLog slug="LatinSquares" latest="1"]

Normally the links in the change log will be removed. These can be kept via the attachment attribute. If set the links will be kept and if attach is 'convert' the links will be converted from links to the download to links to the relevant attachment page for that download file.

pluginInformationVersion

Provides the version number of this plugin (not the version of the plugin being queried)

Version: 3.282.0
Author: David Vines
Last Updated: 2025-05-12T16:11:07Z
Requires WordPress Version: 4.0 or higher
Tested up to: 6.8.1
License: Although I claim sole ownership of the copyright for this plugin, I hereby grant permission to use this plugin under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 license.

Change Log

3.282.0 - 12 May 2025

Update the 'Last Updated field to state the actual date if that date is older than yesterday

3.263.0 - 06 October 2024

Provide option to suppress attachment links completely

3.230.0 - 14 January 2023

Fix links in the change log!

3.228.0 - 14 January 2023

Add div's for the plugin information and its sections to allow css styling

3.226.0 - 12 January 2023

Remove unnecessary close paragraph tags when handling html

3.202.0 - 25 May 2022

Support Tested up to

3.201.0 - 25 May 2022

Fix update detection logic!

3.191.0 - 07 April 2022

Fix display of multiple change log entries when removing the attachment links

3.186.0 - 01 April 2022

Add the 'latest' option to the changelog short code. Remove links if 'attach' isn't specified

3.183.0 - 27 March 2022

Fix wording of the generated description (no change to the actual plugin itself)

3.161.0 - 09 September 2021

Fix update detection logic

3.157.0 - 21 July 2021

Common up duplicated code in the plugin update logic

3.149.0 - 04 June 2021

Add Last as a prefix for weekdays. The ISO time is prefilled into last updated text field in case the javascript is unable (or has not yet) run

3.139.0 - 14 May 2021

Support a more generalised development environment. The plugin now looks for the json information file on the hosting site first rather than to a hardcoded site. The standard fallback is still to blog.tremlas.com, my standard website.

3.138.0 - 03 May 2021

Get yesterday to be displayed only if yesterday actually makes sense 🙂

3.137.0 - 01 May 2021

Bug fix to prevent infinite loop!

3.136.0 - 01 May 2021

Have the last updated field filled in by javascript so that the static version doesn't change so much

3.126.0 - 15 April 2021

Provide option for links to be to the attachment page rather than being a direct download

3.108.0 - 29 March 2021

Update URL of the details page

3.106.0 - 24 March 2021

Remove plugin link if it's the same as the current page

3.105.0 - 23 March 2021

Add a download link for the current version
Improve style of the table a little

3.104.0 - 22 March 2021

Initial published version

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Mongoose Traveller V2 Character Creator Plugin Details

Description

This plugin adds a shortcode to add a sandpit for character creation experimentation. This allows for a new character to be created. The characters are saved locally in the browser (only) and can be exported in a format importable into Fantasy Grounds Unity.
[mongooseTravellerV2CharacterCreator /]

The following (minor) rules interpretations, clarifications and modifications have been made by this plugin:

Three of the initial stat rolls are made with a boon (i.e., roll 3D6 and take the best two).
Mishap 2 is always severely injured.
Skill specialisations are chosen at the end of character creation (rather than as you acquire level one in the base skill). This was to avoid overwhelming the player with options. However that does mean where you should be awarded a specialisation in a skill you, initially, get a level in the base skill instead. Also those skills which can be specialised are allowed to go above four until you reach that specialisation step.
In a few places where the official rules allow you to choose a skill in the skill tables these has been replaced by providing an entry for each skill in that table (making it have seven rows and a 1D7 roll).
The 'Any talent' entry in the Psion service skill table has been omitted (making that table have five rows and hence a 1D5 roll).
Connections do not allow the choice of any psionic talent (unless the character is Zhodani).

Version: 3.365.0
Author: David Vines
Last Updated: 2026-08-20T10:33:26Z
Requires WordPress Version: 4.0 or higher
Tested up to: 7.1
License: Contains materials from Mongoose which are used by following the Mongoose fair use policy. The code elements were written solely by myself.
The Traveller game in all forms is owned by Mongoose Publishing. Copyright 1977 - 2026 Mongoose Publishing. Traveller is a registered trademark of Mongoose Publishing. Mongoose Publishing permits web sites and fanzines for this game, provided it contains this notice, that Mongoose Publishing is notified, and subject to a withdrawal of permission on 90 days notice. The contents of this site are for personal, non-commercial use only. Any use of Mongoose Publishing’s copyrighted material or trademarks anywhere on this web site and its files should not be viewed as a challenge to those copyrights or trademarks. In addition, any program/articles/files on this site cannot be republished or distributed without the consent of the author who contributed it.

The images were generated using Microsoft's copilot AI Image generator. As such Microsoft, its affiliated companies and third-party partners are granted permission to use the Prompts, Creations, customisations (including GPTs) and related content in connection with the operation of its businesses (including, without limitation, all Microsoft Services), including, without limitation, the licence rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat the Prompts, Creations and other content that were provided to create the image; and the right to sublicense such rights to any supplier of the Online Services.

In particular note that this page explicitly does not grant consent to republish or distribute this plugin.

Change Log

3.365.0 - 20 August 2026

More Bug fixes:

List 'Ceremonial Kinship' as an awarded benefit
'c1-aslanscientistevent5' not found
Aslan scientist event 9 success is failure (and vice versa)
Aslan scientist event 5 Gun Combat mistyped
Stop multiple benefit awards on one button press

In all probability there are still some bugs. If you encounter any or have any comments please send an email to webmaster(at)blog(dot)tremlas)dot(com), ideally including a screenshot.

3.364.0 - 19 August 2026

Bug Fixes aplenty:

'Ceremonial Kinships' should be 'Ceremonial Kinship' (in my defense it's spelled both ways in the rulebook)
Unrecognised Benefit of 'TER+2'
'c1-drinaxlifeevent6-wasteland56' not found
Aslan Military Officer event 8 trying to use non-existent text for Aslan Military event 8
Unable to proceed after succeeding in helping the conspiracy in Aslan Envoy event 10
'c1-aslanmanagementmishap2-false' not found
Don't award benefits if the character owes benefits (stopping an effectively infinite loop)
Missing text when refusing the deal for agent mishap 2 (which also prevents the character from suffering the severe injury...)
'c1-aslanspaceofficerevent3-engineer' no found
'addAnEnemy' is not a function

3.363.0 - 18 August 2026

Bug fix: Unable to proceed in Aslan Ceremonial if you choose to keep the clan or family secret

3.362.0 - 18 August 2026

Bug fix: getOrInsert method on Map is not supported on some browsers at this time

3.361.0 - 17 August 2026

Bug fixes:

Skill checks should not be penalised if you're unskilled during character creation (this one is due to a misunderstanding I've had since the very beginnings of this character creator)
The minimum for social standing is now zero (if your social standing is zero and you have a severe aging crisis you won't be offered the choice to reduce it further)
Typo in Entertainer promotion skills ('Investigatec' instead of 'Investigate')
Fixed the logic determining the text shown for Aslan Life Event 4 (the code logic is fine, but it didn't get the text displayed correct

3.359.0 - 16 August 2026

Major update: This update adds support for Aslan careers as well as the Drinax life events. The Aslan careers are from the Pirates of Drinax campaign and the Aliens of Charted Space Volume 1 (with some adjustments where these two publications don't quite match up). There are some other minor fixes to the original core rulebook careers which I found while adding the code to support the Aslan and Drinax.

3.358.0 - 11 August 2026

Bug fix: exception if a spacer has no choice over what skills they learn (which happens if you choose Electronics and Profession as background skills)

3.345.0 - 02 August 2026

Minor change to HTML used to display exceptions

3.344.0 - 24 July 2026

Bug fixes:

Allow (internally) PSI to go below zero, so that bonuses on testing get resolved correctly
Handle missing checkVisibility method on some browsers

3.341.0 - 10 June 2026

Change punctuation of specialisations so that FGU can recognise them as applicable to equipment.

Note: For characters that have already been imported into FGU you'll need to manually update the character's skill list to add a space between the base skill and the '(' character and then update the specialisation so that it only uses lower case characters. For example a character with a Gun Combat skill and specialised in slug throwers their skill entry should read 'Gun Combat (slug)' Once the skill has been updated you will also need to get the 'actions' tab to update the actions. To do this click on the attribute box of the action at least once (the skill mod box should then automatically pick up the specialised skill)

3.340.0 - 13 March 2026

Correct the amount of money for a weapon received as a mustering out benefit

3.339.0 - 21 February 2026

Bug fix: Advancement rolls ignore bonuses (and penalties) gained during the current term. Allow a natural 2 roll to advance (assuming the bonuses allow a 2 to advance!)

3.338.0 - 11 February 2026

Bug Fix: Gambler skill called 'Gambling' in merchant event 5 - causing connection skill selection to fail later on (also fixed a couple of other typos). Note that I also changed it so that if you lose the gamble it remembers how many lost mustering out rolls until the end of that career (instead of instantly forgetting it if you didn't already have enough rolls)

3.336.0 - 29 January 2026

Bug Fix: Unable to export Bwap characters to PDF

3.333.0 - 25 December 2025

Bug Fix: Unable to proceed while a prisoner who shirked work

3.332.0 - 15 December 2025

Bug fix: Being forcibly drafted by event 11 in the drifters can cause a TypeError due to an off-by-one error (Also added a button to roll for the drafted career so that (in GM mode) it can be overriden)

3.331.0 - 09 December 2025

Add combat skills to capsule description (if not already listed)

3.330.0 - 08 December 2025

Add name and a description of some characteristics to the capsule description

3.329.0 - 07 December 2025

Provide a preference between Drive and Flyer. Some skill tables have an entry 'Drive or Flyer' - Rather than ask the player when the skill is rolled, we instead ask for a preference in the homeworld section (defaulting to Drive for worlds of TL8 or lower and Flyer for worlds of TL9 and higher). We ask in the homeworld section to avoid asking when granting the skill since it's hard for the code to ask for that choice when granting the skill
Provide a capsule description (suitable for use as a prompt to an AI image generator)
Bug fix: No way to proceed after winning a prison fight

3.328.0 - 27 November 2025

Cope with members of a psionic community who don't gain any psionic talents

3.327.0 - 01 November 2025

Bug fix: Being forced to leave a career lingers to all following career. Also stop forcing drifters to leave their career (you should always be able to become a drifter)

3.326.0 - 29 October 2025

Hide the text saying that you didn't get a psionic talent during training as well as elsewhere

3.325.0 - 11 October 2025

Fix link to the version history in the copyright notice

3.324.0 - 11 October 2025

Refactor: Common up some code between my plugins

3.323.0 - 06 October 2025

Bug Fix: Correct lookup for prisoner event 3

3.322.0 - 02 October 2025

Bug fix: drifter event 9 rejected text missing

3.321.0 - 01 October 2025

Sigh - Bug fix, correct the broken text for prisoner. Also fix skipping the psionic test (life event 12.1)

3.320.0 - 01 October 2025

Prevent exception on bad character load, Improve text for prisoners

3.319.0 - 13 September 2025

Bug fix: citizen mishap 4 missing text

3.314.0 - 10 September 2025

Add retrieve button to homeworld page

3.311.0 - 07 September 2025

Fix regular expression used to validate UWP

3.310.0 - 01 September 2025

Bug fixes:

Exception after choosing connections if you have psionic skills
Exception gaining fourth level of a psionic skill
Dice roll for psionic community hidden
GM Mode always ticked after page reload

3.309.0 - 31 August 2025

(Hopefully) fix generated PDF so that it is readable in Adobe Acrobat

3.308.0 - 30 August 2025

Bug fix: Exception 'no active control' when winning the duel in noble event 3

3.307.0 - 30 August 2025

Bug fix: Exception when processing end of term for characters who have the School of Hard Knocks precareer. Correct spelling of 'Streeetwise'

Show hidden stats in GM Mode

3.306.0 - 29 August 2025

Bug fix: exception on a failed aging roll

3.305.0 - 29 August 2025

Accept UWP copy/pasted from travellermap.com, fix handling of anagathics when aging

3.304.0 - 29 August 2025

Add a stats reroll if in GM mode

3.303.0 - 29 August 2025

Add GM (aka Cheat) Mode, save initial decisions in session storage (so it persists over a page reload)

Add Chronor as the default homeworld for Zhodani characters and Saurus as the default for Saurian characters

3.302.0 - 29 August 2025

Correct enlistment criteria for university and militray academies (too generous by one and two points respectively)

Also fix survival and advancement rolls that are based on END (this characteristic was being ignored)

3.301.0 - 28 August 2025

Reenable and fix the 'no active control' check

3.300.0 - 28 August 2025

Change the 'no active control' check from an exception into a console.log

3.299.0 - 28 August 2025

Add precareer options from Traveller Companion

3.298.0 - 28 August 2025

Bug fix: Sigh - fix awarding of TAS Membership (and fix description of Vargr stat changes)

3.297.0 - 28 August 2025

Bug fixes: Unknown Benefit Award: END +1, exception when generating PDF and character is a member of TAS.

3.296.0 - 28 August 2025

Bug fix: Exception if only one choice of specialisation

3.295.0 - 27 August 2025

Bug fix: scout event 10 failing with no element with id

3.294.0 - 26 August 2025

Bug fix: prevent negative total of benefit rolls, correct prisoner event handling

3.293.0 - 22 August 2025

Add additional races

3.292.0 - 21 August 2025

Fix unable to proceed after choosing the skill for scholar event 8

3.291.0 - 15 August 2025

Fix some promotion bonuses

3.290.0 - 15 August 2025

Bug fix - javascript error when you get promoted with a bonus!

3.289.0 - 15 August 2025

Add benefit roll on promotion even if you don't get any other bonus

3.288.0 - 03 August 2025

Bug fix - javascript error for citizen mishap 4

3.285.0 - 19 May 2025

Bug fix - javascript error when gaining advanced training

3.283.0 - 16 May 2025

Bug fix - javascript error for some agent events

3.282.0 - 12 May 2025

Add ability to choose how many characterestics are rolled with boon

3.279.0 - 25 December 2024

Fix to FGU export xml file (cosmetic fix)

3.278.0 - 18 November 2024

Bug fix - Adjust scout mishap3's contact and enemy counts. Provide enemy text on Scout event 3, Fix Typo's, Stop several events overwriting career event

3.277.0 - 18 November 2024

Fix typo. Add full life event list to the Notes of the FGU export

3.276.0 - 15 November 2024

Lock skills in the FGU file, Wording fixes, Bug fixes (citizen mishap4 and event3)

3.275.0 - 10 November 2024

Typo and small bug fixes. Rework the display of advancement options

3.274.0 - 08 November 2024

Added ability to embed text in the initial page (between the notes and the copyright notice)

3.273.0 - 08 November 2024

PDF Generation added

3.272.0 - 03 November 2024

Add Psionics

3.271.0 - 30 October 2024

Bug fixes

3.270.0 - 28 October 2024

Reword mishaps and events so that mishaps caused by events do not imply you leave the career is almost all cases. Add Anagathics

3.269.0 - 25 October 2024

Allow medical bills for injuries

3.268.0 - 25 October 2024

Add save and view options, add a free format field

3.267.0 - 24 October 2024

Fix multiple specialisations!

3.266.0 - 21 October 2024

Allow for multiple specialisations

3.265.0 - 18 October 2024

Added the remaining careers (apart from Psion) and the draft

3.264.0 - 12 October 2024

Add the army career

3.263.0 - 06 October 2024

Bug fixes

3.262.0 - 06 October 2024

Add more careers

3.261.0 - 27 September 2024

Add mustering out, export of characters, bug fixes

3.259.0 - 23 September 2024

Initial Version - pre-alpha (no mustering out, connections, end of character or export. Only pre-careers and rogues implements so far

The information on this page was retrieved by Plugin Information Version 3.282.0.

Enabling updates for self-hosted WordPress themes and updates

I recently experimented with changing my themes and plugins to support self-hosted updates. For plugins this was relatively straight-forward once I'd found two articles, one by Misha Rudrastyh, which got me to adjust the contents of the zip files down one level (which allows WordPress to understand that the new zip file being uploaded is a replacement/update for a plugin that is already installed) and gave the basics of the self-hosted update process¹, including hosting a file that describes the update along side the zip file that is the actual update. The second article by Paul Biron showed what the current version of WordPress is expecting in the php code for plugins

However those articles don't talk about themes that much. To be fair the process for themes is very similar². However the expection of the WordPress code is different to that for plugins, so, as a record, here's my code:

function ningxia_check_for_update( $slug ) {
 $info = ningxia_get_remote_update_info( $slug );
 if ( false == $info ) {
  return false;
 }
 if ( version_compare( '@@@VERSION@@@', $info['version'], '>' )
   && version_compare( $info['requires'], get_bloginfo( 'version' ), '>' ) ) {
  $update = array(
    'slug'          => $slug,
    'new_version'   => $info['version'],
    'url'           => $info['homepage'],
    'package'       => $info['download_link'],
    'icons'         => array(),
    'banners'       => array(),
    'banners_rtl'   => array(),
    'tested'        => '',
    'requires_php'  => '',
    'compatability' => new StdClass()
  );
  return $update;
 } else {
  return false;
 }
}

function ningxia_pre_set_site_transient_update_themes( $transient ) {
 // Check for update
 $themeslug = 'Ningxia';
 $update = ningxia_check_for_update( $themeslug );
 if ( $update ) {
  $transient->response[$themeslug] = $update;
 }
 return $transient;
}
add_filter( 'pre_set_site_transient_update_themes', 'ningxia_pre_set_site_transient_update_themes' );

My build process modifies the @@@VERSION@@@ string into the current version number for the build being created (for example, 3.80.1) whereas the $info['version'] comes from the json that been retrieved from the self-hosting site.

Last updated: October 9, 2025 at 13:59 pm

Updated 9^th October 2025 to correctly show all of the code!

Footnotes

Though I did have to adjust the logic slightly - when you detect that the filter call is not for the current plugin you need to return the current value of first parameter and not just return false ↩
Though the articles I've read suggest that there could be differences for multi-site setups - as this site is not a multi-site setup, I've yet to test how well this description works for that kind of setup ↩

Legal

Privacy Policy

This website is intended purely as a Personal web site. As such it does not collect any personal information from any body other than myself.

Cookie Policy

This site uses cookies - small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better.

On this site, the only cookies are those used by WordPress itself so that it can determine where you are in the site and if, for example, you've logged on or not. There a good write up of this on the cookielawinfo website (note, however, that wesbite is trying to get you to sign up for their plugin for wordpress that provides a cookie consent banner among other GDPR features).

However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. I suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

Local Browser Storage

Both the Sumo Oyakata and the Domain of the Ancients games provides load and save¹ buttons. The data saved is entirely local to your browser and never leaves it in any form. The Mongoose Traveller 2e Character Creator also provides load and save buttons. Again the data saved is entirely local to your browser. However the character creator also provides the ability to export the character as files that can be downloaded. These files are generated locally in your browser. The Character Sandpit also provides the same ability to export the character while it does nor have the ability to save or load the character data.

Copyright

Unless otherwise noted on the relevant page all the text on this website is my own and is thus copyrighted by myself (David Vines). Again unless otherwise noted on the relevant page you may copy and reuse the text as long as you abide by the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

The copyright in the images used on this website has various different copyright owners varying by the image. If you click on the image you should be taken to the attachment page for the image where details of the copyright owner will be stated and the license used by this website to the image. For images where I'm the sole copyright owner again you may reuse the image in your work as long as you abide by the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Contact

Should you need to contact me, please send an email to webmaster(at)blog(dot)tremlas(dot)com.

Change History

Last updated: December 2, 2024 at 14:54 pm

2^nd December 2024: Updated section on Local Browser Storage to also include details about the character creators.

Footnotes

Sumo provides a save button, Domain of the Ancients doesn't (because it auto saves at the beginning of every turn). ↩

Setting up a ubuntu for my development enviroment

So I'm experimenting with a new development environment - this one is a ubuntu 20.04 running inside of Oracle VM Virtual Box. The initial installation was done following the cookbook from Abhishek Prakash.

Initial VM setup

Download and install VirtualBox
Download the ISO for Ubuntu
Start Virtual Box and create a new VM - I specified 4GB memory, 4 processor and approx 60GB Hard Disc
Start the VM using the ISO image and complete the Ubuntu installation

Development Environment Setup

Install fossil using sudo apt install fossil
Install ant using sudo apt install ant
Install npm using sudo apt install npm
Install php 7.4 using sudo apt install php7.4
Create directory for the website development mkdir website
Clone the website fossil and open it:
- fossil clone http://david:password@virtual.internal:7780/website website.fossil
- cd website
- fossil open ../website.fossil
Install prereq npm packages:
- sudo npm -g install jshint@2.11
- sudo npm -g install qunit@2.10
- sudo npm -g install ajv-cli@4.0
Test the build by
- cd build
- ant rebuild-all

WordPress setup

Install prereqs by sudo apt install apache2 mysql-server libapache2-mod-php php-mysql
Configure and enable apache2 by
- sudo systemctl start apache2
- sudo systemctl enable apache2
- sudo ufw allow in "Apache Full"
Configure mysql and setup a database for wordpress by
- sudo mysql_secure_installation
- sudo mysql -u root -p and enter these commands:
  - CREATE DATABASE wordpress DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
  - CREATE USER wordpress IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY '12345';
  - GRANT ALL ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpress'@'%';
  - quit
Install php extensions used by wordpress using sudo apt install php-curl php-gd php-mbstring php-xml php-xmlrpc php-soap php-intl php-zip
Restart apache2 using sudo systemctl restart apache2
Install curl using sudo apt install curl
Download wordpress using curl -O https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Extract the archive and move under apache:
- tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
- sudo mv wordpress /var/www/html
- sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wordpress
- sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/wordpress
Setup the wordpress config:
- cd /var/www/html/wordpress
- sudo mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
- Edit wp-config.php to setup the credentials for the database

Setup the apache2 config for wordpress:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress.conf

Make the contents to these lines:

<Directory /var/www/html>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>
<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName wordpress
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wordpress
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Check the config via: apache2ctl -t
Enable it with sudo a2ensite wordpress
Disable the default site with sudo a2dissite 000-default
Activate the new apache2 configuration with sudo systemctl restart apache2

Complete the wordpress install by browsing the image's website

phpMyAdmin installation

Install phpmyadmin via sudo apt install phpmyadmin
You may need to enable the apache2 conf via:
- sudo ln -s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf-available/phpmyadmin.conf
- sudo a2enconf phpmyadmin
- sudo systemctl reload apache2

Caporil theme

Description

I had used the ming theme for quite a while, originally on its own, then with a child theme to fix some minor issues I had with the theme. I then ended up with my own version of that theme in order to allow me to get a better copyright notice. This version, caporil, of that theme is a reworking of both it and my own child theme (created to customise that theme for my own website) to take advantage of more modern CSS techniques (and to allow me to understand wordpress themes better). I haven't registered it with wordpress's theme library, so there is a risk of a name clash in the future.

Version: 3.343.0
Author: David Vines
Last Updated: 2026-07-08T08:50:06Z
Requires WordPress Version: 4.0 or higher
Tested up to: 7.0
License: This theme is based on the ming theme used under the terms of the GPL v2 license. This theme may be used under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 license. Note, however, that it is pre-customised for this website and may not be suitable for your own site.

Many thanks to Axiu, the author of the ming theme.

Change Log

3.343.0 - 08 July 2026

Add skip links

3.342.0 - 16 June 2026

nowrap on widgettitles and add a nowrap class

3.337.0 - 04 February 2026

Add white-space:nowrap; to .post-date

3.287.0 - 30 July 2025

Suppress images sizes which are duplicates

3.281.0 - 08 April 2025

Fix references to stylesheet_uri when template_uri should have been used

3.280.0 - 08 April 2025

Add template for ordered page with header, add fixes for simply static

3.279.0 - 25 December 2024

Add 'By Author' to pages as well as posts

3.259.0 - 23 September 2024

Bring possible multicolumn down to 80ch

3.258.0 - 07 September 2024

Make main a container and allow for a possible multiple column inside that container

3.257.0 - 20 August 2024

Add ordered page template (which is a standard page that gains links to prev and next pages at the bottom) by refactoring the chronicle page template

3.256.0 - 23 June 2024

Add file size to attachment metadata pages

3.255.0 - 13 May 2024

Prevent line break in tag clouds between the tag and the count

3.254.0 - 25 September 2023

Remove redunant div from footer

3.253.0 - 28 August 2023

Honor suppress version tag option

3.252.0 - 28 August 2023

Address Theme Check Items

3.251.0 - 28 August 2023

On the media attachment pages the list of camera models and their long versions moved into database and the theme settings updated to allow the addition of new camera models
Removed the logic for special case handling of copyrighy owners
In the attachment tags the string '$years' will now be substituted with the copyright years (either from the copyright-first-year-20xx tag or from the date of the media library addition if there's no copyright-first-year-20xx tag)
Renamed the theme_options database entry - unfortunately that does mean you'll need to reenter any options you've changed from the default

3.250.0 - 31 July 2023

Support copyrights where I'm the author but don't want to release under creative commons

3.249.0 - 29 June 2023

Change search to use the 'search' HTML element

3.248.0 - 05 April 2023

'heading' -> 'header'

3.247.0 - 29 March 2023

Remove link on attachment heading, use 'header' and 'footer' inside of articles too

3.246.0 - 21 March 2023

Improve printing style, Improve appearance of tag pages

3.245.0 - 23 February 2023

Decrease size of the h1 margins

3.244.0 - 23 February 2023

Use semantic HTML5 tags and the browser's small viewport

3.242.0 - 06 February 2023

Tweaks to the style, add a fullscreen template

3.241.0 - 26 January 2023

Remove a redunant clear div

3.238.0 - 22 January 2023

Add space between multiple pieces of image metadata
Add vertical space after post/page info block
Push footer to the back
Improve appearance of pages using chronicle.css
Improve appearance of archive pages

3.237.0 - 21 January 2023

Remove underline from attachment links
Adjust the attachment metadata include
Improve update experience
Remove underlining from the image tag pages

3.236.0 - 21 January 2023

Adjust size of sidebars

3.235.0 - 20 January 2023

Fix the position of the sidebar toggle characters
Increase size of the toggle bar
Fix location of the search box (when enabled)

3.234.0 - 19 January 2023

Distinguish css for the various page templates

3.233.0 - 19 January 2023

Improve chronicle pages. Address unnecessaryfont face loading

3.232.0 - 16 January 2023

Handle narrow windows better

3.231.0 - 14 January 2023

Improve appearance of lists in plugin change logs

3.229.0 - 14 January 2023

Improve appearance of code blocks

3.228.0 - 14 January 2023

Reduce some ofthe vertical spacing. Add support for @media(print)

3.227.0 - 13 January 2023

Improve appearance of tag pages, show number of comments (if non-zero) even when static

3.226.0 - 12 January 2023

Initial Version

The information on this page was retrieved by Plugin Information Version 3.282.0.

Converting to WordPress

I've recently redirected my website to a WordPress driven site. While the page generation is longer (the Feeds page is definitely longer to generate), I'm finding the CMS capability to be much better than hand editing my pages. WordPress has a relatively well thought out design and philosophy, so we'll see how it goes. I, of course, have added redirects for all the old pages.

Even more WordPress plugins I've used (but don't currently)

I've audited again the plugins I've used on this site. I've removed the following, but not because they aren't useful (they are), but because I don't need them right at the moment:

Enhanced Media Library: Originally used to improve the functionally of the Media Library, but since outclassed by the Media Library Assistant plugin.
Custom Post Type UI: Used to prototype the custom taxonomy I use to identify and the photos and images to which I'm the sole copyright owner. Doesn't need to be installed since I copied the taxonomy into my child theme.
Updates API Inspector: Used to get a view on what wordpress does to identify and install updates to plugins and themes. Doesn't need to remain installed once the investigation is completed.