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• Validating Replacement WordPress RSS 2.0 File for iTunes 4.9 This file has been rolled into the full WP-iPodcatter plugin for easier maintenance and more flexiblity. Apple’s iTunes 4.9 looks for special tags in podcast feeds [pdf] to populate their directory and categorize the podcast. Despite my mixed feelings on them adding new tags that seem to duplicate old tags, they’ve done it. Edd Dumbill has
• WordPress-to-WordPress Import Tip: Delete Spam Comments First I’m doing some blog consolidation (”finally”, I can hear you say). I’ve been trying out WordPress’ new import feature. It hung, stalled, or timed out every time, either on initial import or on Step 2 when I assign the post author. After peaking into the WXRSS file, I noticed all my comments were in there (yeah!)
• The Power of Vendor/Gems Right now, I’m heavily reliant on an unsupported (if not completely abandoned) ruby gem library. Historically, I’ve just gem install bizarro-gem and moved on. A couple of issues have changed my perspective: My host, textdrive, doesn’t allow installing bizarro gems on their shared servers and I’ve had difficulty freezing them, so I worked around the
• WP-iPodCatter Now v1.0 I’ve cleaned up a few things based on the feedback from the 0.9a version, and tweaked a couple more things. Decided “0.9″ wasn’t as round a version as I’d like and v1.0 felt better. The Biggest Changes: - Comment-cast is now a checkbox option (there were some problems with it being supported on earlier versions of PHP) -
• Sorry About The Conversation Happening Without Me On a happy note, this post means the migration to WordPress 2.0 is complete. On an apologetic note, I’d like to apologize to everyone who has left a comment that completely got lost in the overly aggressive spam filter. Scott McGerik, Dave, and anyone asking questions about the plugins - sorry for not responding. I wasn’t