Hi everyone,

Well, it’s been a bit frustrating in the last month or so to have our join form on the fritz. Hopefully those of you who have been applying for new characters haven’t been lost in the shuffle somewhere! If you have sent in a join form and haven’t heard back from myself or another Officer, you should resubmit it or get in touch with one of us.

We’ve been on the hunt for a third party hosting service for online forms, and finally came across a great free one that we are now using for join forms. It’s called “Email Me Form,” and while the forms it generates are pretty simple in appearance, they’re reliable! Even better is that it can send out automatic confirmations so that you know your form was submitted. These new join forms—yes, forms, each section has their own join form again—are all ready to go on the joining page.

Last but not least, each section leader is now responsible for the join forms & new characters in their section. This means that joining inquiries can be sent to Jeremy regarding novices, Bri regarding Gaidin in Training, and Taryn regarding Pattern Societies. Questions about reinstating old characters should still be sent to myself and the relevant section leader (hey, I need something to do, right?!).

So rest assured that the joining process should now be a bit smoother for everyone. Bring on those new recruits! :)

—Joni

Hello WoT RPers!

The Officers have been discussing a few reforms to the writing requirements in the Training Grounds, and to go with that, we’d like to get your opinion on Gaidin in Training rank titles and what you think they should be. We’ve come up with a few different options, and would appreciate it greatly if you could help us out and vote.

Go vote on Gaidin in Training rank titles!

The voting form will stay open until Friday, February 18, at 11:45 pm (PST), so be sure you have had your say before that time. You will need a password to get into the form, which has been emailed to the address you use for the boards.

We look forward to announcing the winning set of rank titles soon!

—Joni

Update: We’re blown away by your responses! Almost everyone has been able to respond, so we’re closing the voting early. If you haven’t completed the form, you now have until Friday, February 11 at 11:45 pm instead.

Everyone please congratulate

Accepted Kaia Ariasca (Jenn)

and

Accepted Medaea sur Yvaine (Taryn)

on their recent raisings to Accepted! *blasts confetti cannons*

–Jeremy

Everyone please offer up some hearty congratulations to our newest Accepted, Accepted Teli Mildune!

Congratulations, Teli and Tanya!

Hi everyone!

Just thought you might like a little bit of warning: I’ve updated WordPress to the 3.0 version, and it’s now a nice sleek light grey version. Everything should still work exactly the same, however!

One nice new feature of WP 3.0 is that you can easily and quickly get a short link to your post. Simply click “Edit” at the bottom of your post, log in, and at the top of the editing page you will see a “Get short link” button just under the title text box. I don’t really know what relevance it might have, but I do have a feeling it’ll save us some time in the long run. So thanks, WordPress!

As always, if you have any questions about our WordPress system, simply email me at joni (at) wheeloftimerp.net. :)

—Joni

Phew!

Thus concludes a bunch of research and a lot of fiddling from yours truly. I’ve found, created, styled, and implemented a new join form for us, because the last one seemed to work roughly 50% of the time. Grr. Hopefully this one will be a lot more reliable.

We’ve utilized some new fandangled technology (man I love the stuff) to bypass the biography request email—from now on, you can (and must) upload your character’s biography straight away, as well as your writer’s bio. It’ll save us a step, which will be quite nice for a change.

Anyway, just thought I’d share the join form joy! :)

—Joni