Thanks John,
Unfortunately we are limited on what we can do right now on WordPress and this specific site format. I have talked with my hosts at Go Daddy about other options so that we can have all of the things you’re suggesting. I am going to try some new interim plug-ins and widgets to see if we can get some additional capability.
Long term, I plan to completely overhaul the website and change to a new format both for the site and forums in a few months. My priority right now is the mod and the new colonies/locations for the next major release of GOF ERAS that I hope will be done by summer-time. Once that is out, then I will focus on rebuilding the site.
I have a burning desire to get that done so I can start getting ERAS MOD3 (1775-1825) done. MOD3 will initially be limited release only to friends, family and contributors.
I also wanted to comment that a lot of people have been writing me to complain that the mod is too large to download at their area of the world. I tried a torrent this last time and couldn’t get it to seed properly. So the next release of the mod with the MEGA PATCH (patch2) will be out by the end of this month and it will be in four separate parts that are 2 to 3 GBs each. You will have to put them all together yourself once you have them.
For people with no bandwidth or FAP issues the large whole DL will still be available but I’m working on downsizing it based on comments from the community on items resolution.
MK