At the end of last week, I had raised my first support call with Codeat the makers of the Glossary plugin. The tooltip which I had chosen was providing a double line under the word “More” which appears if there is more text than just the excerpt. After a while they provided me some Additional CSS code that fixed the issue although it removes the underline for any glossary term before you hover over the term when the single thicker line and tooltip appear. I can live with this, certainly for the period when I should be focusing on creating the glossary terms. In the future I may look at one of the alternative styles for the tooltip.

I created some additional glossary terms, at the time of writing I have eight, six of them all include the term location as part of a compound term of multiple words, for example operating location, location hierarchy, etc. When I looked, something was not quite right, but I wasn’t certain what.

The second reference to “location types” was highlighted but only for “location” and it was the Location glossary term and tooltip that was shown. In the setting for ‘Additional key terms for this definition’ I tried ‘Location Types, location types’ but this did not correct the fault.

I had noticed a setting for ‘Match case-sensitive terms’ I wasn’t certain what this meant and thought it worth trying to find out. This did correct the issue with ‘location types’ but now ‘Location Systems’ had the ‘Location’ highlighted and had the tooltip for the ‘Location’ glossary term. I couldn’t see what was causing this or how to overcome it, so I thought if I have problems with other compound terms, I’ll raise another support call.

What I noticed was the term ‘SITE’ was no longer being highlighted and ‘Site’ was highlighted, and ‘Site’ was a perfect match with the glossary term. So, I concluded that ‘Match case-sensitive terms’ would only be a match if the case was a perfect match. If this is not set, then the same term in full capitals or all lower case would also be a match. The glossary terms, being the title of a custom post are naturally capitalised.

Next up I added the Glossary so that terms in the Glossary pages themselves would also be highlighted. The terms are custom posts with the type of Glossary Term (glossary) and there was a toggle to set this. This worked great. I thought it overkill to also add this to the Glossary Index page which already had each term highlighted.

Later in the week I created another set of terms to see whether I could find fault when there is a greater number of terms. The only thing I noticed was that often I had to go back and make the ‘Type of Link’ an Internal URL as nearly always I had more text than the excerpt. I’ll have to find a way of making this the default. The other issue is that I needed to add other Key Terms in the comma separated list for the field ‘Additional key terms for this definition’. This is mainly the plural of the glossary term, but it could be that each word needs to be capitalised or sometimes one word is all in capitals, for example SALVAGE location. I’m thinking that the chances are there will be some terms in my posts which are not highlighted simply because I didn’t capture all the combinations that I needed to enter in this field.

I had grand ambitions for the weekend adding more glossary terms, linking terms in the custom posts or to other posts on my website, adding images and generally starting to turn each term into a wiki page. Then, I noticed that Time Machine was no longer backing up to my Apple Time Capsule, it had given up the ghost at the beginning of October.

After several hours I concluded that I was never going to fix the Time Capsule and I did an emergency backup of my document folder to an external hard drive. Apple no longer make Time Capsules, so do I backup to cloud storage or have a local backup solution. You can’t use Time Machine to backup to Apple’s iCloud, but other cloud providers could be used, then I found out that if something went wrong with your hard disk you had to pay for a hard drive with your data to be delivered to your address, that sounded like a lot of downtime apart from the additional expense. Cloud backup was also more expensive than I thought it would be.

I started investigating NAS drives (Network-Attached Storage) and this resulted with the familiar reach into my wallet for the credit card. I’ll need to wait until next week to receive this. I opted for a Western Digital 8TB My Cloud EX2 Ultra which has two 4TB drives, and I aim to mirror one drive to the other so that if one breaks, I should be able to rebuild and fix easily. I am beginning to think that I need a more resilient system to support my website and videos, and when I have finally converted my old office into a studio, I do intend to get another Mac which is dedicated to creating videos, so I’m thinking some central storage of files should be a goal.

I eventually made no further progress on the glossary over the weekend. But prior to backing up I did tick off another item from last week’s objectives and I now have the latest versions of PowerDirector 365 and Camtasia, the two video editing software that I will start to use.

I did complete the lab exercises for the 14 Asset Management subjects where I had a video and a podcast episode. The next step is to create a title for the “How To” videos as some of the lab exercises may be split (or even merged). I did make a start on this for the first two subject areas, it would take about a day to produce the titles for the other 12. The title is always starting with “How to…” for example “How to use the Address System to inherit Service Addresses on Locations and Assets”. As I am writing the title, I am conscious of capitalizing the word which are glossary terms, in this case four terms “Address System”, “Service Address”, “Locations” and “Assets”. These are terms which certainly are SEO keywords.

For just these two subject areas there are 16 How To videos, there might be 90-100 just for Asset Management. The videos won’t be long in duration, Bite Size, perhaps less than 5 minutes. But I’ll have to find a slick way of creating these videos, a maximum of 4 hours including any preparation, recording, and publishing time. I’m thinking that is a tough target (too tough). If I can’t get the effort for each video to a manageable size, I am wondering whether I should even attempt to start. I might, of course, pick out a few How To videos whenever the need arises, and perfecting the technique would be worthwhile, but I have no chance of achieving this in addition to my current videos, and I shouldn’t stop that train which still has more than a year to run.

I didn’t complete the next YouTube video; it is proving difficult to explain and the duration is increasing every day I work on it. However, I did make progress and it should be recorded next week.

I did complete the fifth quiz and I concluded that I would have the quiz questions in both the Sensei lessons as well as in a general post. However, I don’t want to present the questions and answers in the way I have done previously which has taken a post for the questions and a post for the questions and answers which I typically published a couple of days later. I’m thinking that I should take advantage of the Flashcard block that comes with Sensei, the question one side and the answer on the other. Next week, I’ll be experimenting with this.

There is still no news on fixing the font for my website, it seems to be a general problem that is waiting for the next release of WordPress.com. That has made me wonder whether I should be looking to use the Sensei theme called Course. I don’t think I’ll move to it yet but I should at least investigate it when I can find the time.

What objectives for next week then, week 55?

• Record the next YouTube video.
• Experiment with using the Flashcard block
• Complete the set of “How To..” video titles for the remaining 12 Asset Management subjects.
• Continue to add terms to the Glossary (target 20-25).
• Create the sixth quiz.
• Test the recording of the Lavalier microphone