CrossMe Answers

And boy was it a lot of work! I had a feeling it would be much but it sure took some time and effort to make sure that things were organized, labeled, and displaying properly. It’s good to know how about how much time it took to do one set; this way, I’ll be able to manage my time more effectively and possibly plan out updates when/if I need to.

I don’t think uploading in smaller batches is a good idea – even while doing the task in one focused sitting it was a bit tricky to keep track of everything that I needed to. Who would have thought uploading screenshots would be such an undertaking?

File management on my laptop is fine but WordPress is proving fairly clunky. I may look into solutions for the Media Library as there is no way to organize it.

I created a simple contact form on the Contact Page and I think it works. The tests worked, at least.

I need to re-style the menus a bit since they seem to be getting cramped already.

Another section of screenshots taken, uploaded, tagged, and added to the site.

The next section, ASHIGARU, has 352 puzzles in it. I’ve completed 323 of those 352 so I suppose I should get started in taking screenshots of the completed puzzles and get around to solving the newer puzzles.

I actually haven’t done any CrossMe puzzles in quite some time. I used to do them on the plane when flying internationally but COVID-19 has seriously reduced (down to zero) my frequency of flying.

On the back end of things, I updated this to run on PHP 7.4 rather than 7.3. HUGE difference (not really but I like to stay up to date.)

I suppose I should get some SEO stuff going for this as well.

This project is looking like one big data entry project.

Welcome to the official www.crossmeanswers.com! Hopefully this commitment to a domain name will have me working on this more.

I forgot how tricky things can get when migrating a WordPress site from a dev environment to an active domain. I think all of the permalinks got updated properly and the 500 Internal Server errors are resolved.

After quite a while I finally decided to work on this again.

The manual approach seemed laborious so I decided to try a few gallery plugins and see what can work best for this site.

Envira was not really so good, even though research deemed it one of the best free options. Modula is the winner for tonight. After some tweaking and custom CSS declarations, I was able to get a simple gallery to work and look how I almost wanted it.

I took screenshots of the next SOHEI set but I did not upload them yet. After a day or two of perhaps a little more tweaking with Modula then maybe I will embark that is the arduous task of getting everything on here.

I should look into an SEO plugin as well as buy a domain for this site; I don’t want to have to redo all the permalinks – that would be a nightmare.

I’ve been putting this off for so many years now and since COVID-19 has caused a global shutdown, I figured this would be a good time to finally start a project that I began once before, about 7 years ago, and has always been in the back of my mind.

I love the game CrossMe and I would love to help others who have not yet figured out certain tips and tricks for the more difficult puzzles.

This site is still in the early planning stages, and I’m yet to upload a single screenshot. I don’t know what to expect from this project nor do I know if I will even continue it in the long-term. Hopefully I’ll get enough work done on this to justify buying a domain name and perhaps setting up a little bit of advertising to cover those costs.

-M