#squidgeworld tips and tricks

[kitkatt0430]

Alrighty, so who here likes the Floaty Review Box on Ao3?

Probably a whole lot of you. I personally use this version here which does the floaty review box, additional buttons for first/last chapter for a fic, and kudos sortable bookmarks. Admittedly I don't really utilize that third option, but the first/last buttons are of great usefulness to me so that plus the floaty review box make it one of my favorite scripts to use with Ao3.

However, I also want that functionality on SquidgeWorld. Which, since SquidgeWorld is an Ao3 clone where the user interface is concerned... It's actually pretty simple to make the script work for SquidgeWorld too.

If you use Tampermonkey to handle your custom scripts too, then it should be pretty easy to open the script in the editor. Open the Tampermonkey's dashboard, click the script in question, and voila. Edit page. At the top there should be a tab labeled "Settings". Go there.

Scroll down to a section called "Includes/Excludes" - this should already have the built in includes/excludes for the script listed there. Specifically for the script I linked above, you should see entries for "Original Matches" and "Original Excludes". They should all mention archiveofourown - you want to copy all these over to a notepad and replace archiveofourown with squidgeworld and then add them to their respective "User Matches" and "User Excludes" sections.

Once those are added and you've saved the changes, go check out a SquidgeWorld fanwork - such as Silence in the Night (part of a Buffy the Vampire fic series I have available on both Ao3 and Squidgeworld) - and you should see the floaty review box button, the last chapter button, and the first chapter button.

Pretty cool huh? And you should be able to do this for the majority of scripts used for Ao3. So long as Ao3 isn't directly referenced in the script code itself beyond the include/exclude/matches at the top of the script, there's no reason not to give it a try.