The Wege pointed me to an excellent article by Joshua Schachter on the issues w/ URL shortening services. It’s consistent my concerns and my Insecurity of Short URLs post. As I alluded to that post, I see 3 opportunities for URL shorteners, all of them revolve around increasing trust (branding, security, backup). Let’s take that …
Category Archives: WordPress
BeepRepaired.com Music Blog Uses WP-iCal
I just got word from Josh Engelhardt over at Seattle-based Beep Repaired that he’s using the WP-iCal plugin to maintain a subscribe-able version of the Beep Repaired’s bands’ shows and events. Subscribe to the Beep Repaired Show Calendar
QSPress.rb – Quicksilver to WordPress in Ruby
Remember the Quicksilver to WordPress Applescript I wrote a while back? Well, I’ve ported it to Ruby. The QSPress.rb works the same as the Applescript version, with a couple of tweaks – you can now set categories, flag if a post should be a draft, and upload files – all from Quicksilver. The full instructions …
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iPhoto to WordPress Ruby Script
I maintain a WordPress blog that’s primarily an extension of iPhoto, and the various iPhoto plugins (Photon by Daikini, Photon by Orby, WordPress Export) I’ve tried over the years seem to have stopped being maintained, stopped working, or both. Which is fine, they never worked exactly the way I wanted them too anyway. So, I …
WP-iCal Updated by Andrew Koransky
Big thanks to Andrew Koransky for updating the WP-iCal plugin to; support WordPress 2.5.1 and greater, make it more compatible with WordPress’ admin view, and a few other excellent tweaks. It’s been running, smooth as can be, at MNteractive.com for a while now. More info and download at Andrew’s site Thanks Andrew.
WordPress 2.7 xmlrpc.php Monkey Patches
I’ve been fighting with WordPress 2.7’s xmlrpc.php file for a few days now, and I’ve made 2 modifications that may be useful to you. If you’re writing new posts via metaWeblog.newPost and the angle brackets from your HTML formatting are being stripped out (as described in this official WordPress bug report) and you’d rather not …
Wanted: WPMU + S3
Installed Open Web Analytics for WordPre…
Installed Open Web Analytics for WordPress this afternoon. Just a few hours into it, it’s giving me data I haven’t seen since Urchin
WP-GotLucky: Google Search Query Plugin Updated
Finally updated the WP-GotLucky download to the one I’ve been using, and David Seah fixed up for me. This version has RSS feeds by default (the previous one only did email) and automatically puts the most recent search queries in your Admin Dashboard.
QSPress now supports categories. But, I’…
QSPress now supports categories. But, I’m on a funky hotel internet right now, so I won’t be able to upload the new version until I get home tomorrow. We can celebrate then. Yeah!!! It’s up: QSPress 10 May 2007