That’s funny. I don’t feel a day over 38.99726.
Thirty-nine
January 30th, 2006Ping-O-Matic Fun
January 13th, 2006The problem with running a service like Ping-O-Matic is that sometimes you have to send emails like this:
To: [...deleted...] Subject: Re: pingomatic > Hi! > > I have tried to ping pingomatic for about 2 days now > but it will not work for me. My site is > http://www.[...xxxxxx...].com/ > > Do you have any idea of why I can not ping your site > anymore? Because we don't want pings from porn sites? > Have a nice day! Thanks, you too! :) -- Dougal Campbell https://dougal.gunters.org/
return(true);
January 10th, 2006
function do_stuff() {
if (in_array($date, $holidays) && $vacation == true) {
travel('away');
visit_family();
$gifts->exchange();
eat();
travel('home');
}
if ($new_year == true) {
eat() && drink();
$weight++;
$sleep = false;
}
$slack = false;
$resolve++;
$work->resume();
return(true);
}
New features in WordPress 2.0?
December 24th, 2005A lot of people are still asking what the differences are between WordPress version 1.5.2 and version 2.0. I did mention that a lot of the differences are under the surface, and I mentioned the WYSIWYG editor and the new user permissions scheme. Rather than list the changes here, I’ll point you to those who have already written about it.
One of the best articles is probably What’s New in WordPress 2.0? over on Owen Winkler’s site. There are also several articles over on Ryan’s site which detail some of the new changes.
Christmas Lights
One of the things that I only recently discovered myself is the fact that images uploaded to a post become “attachments” which become sub-pages themselves. In other words, each uploaded image becomes a WordPress page, with its own comments. This gives you the basic functionality of a photo gallery without the need for any external software. Click on the image in this post for an example.
WordPress Book
December 22nd, 2005
Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress
Well, actually, the book isn’t just about WordPress. But it does devote six chapters to our favorite blogging platform. The book I’m talking about is Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress, co-authored by Mike Little.
The result is six chapters on using WordPress to help build an online community. Although I wrote the book using version 1.5.x most of the WordPress chapters are version agnostic. This isn’t a “how to use WordPress†book (the excellent WordPress Codex is good for that). This is a book about how to use WordPress to help you build an online community.
It’s published by Apress, who really seem to get the Open Source community. I’ve got several other books by them, and I hope to write up some reviews eventually. I’ll have to see if I can add Mike’s book to my collection, too!
WordPress 2.0 Release on December 26
December 21st, 2005In response to concerns about availability of support over the Christmas holiday, the release of WordPress 2.0 has been delayed until December 26. This will allow all the fine helpers who answer questions in the forums and on IRC to enjoy the holiday without feeling that they need to rush back to assist upgraders.
Upgraded
December 21st, 2005
I went ahead and took the plunge: this site is now running WordPress 2.0 RC3. Everything seems to be working fine so far, despite some of the ugly hacks I have in my home-grown “Rock’em Sock’em Robots” theme. I’m not using the new WYSIWYG editor, as I prefer to write my post markup by hand. And even though the new version lets you add categories on-the-fly, I’m still using the Tags4WP plugin, because it will auto-complete category names for me as I type. And likewise, I’ll probably continue to use the Image Browser plugin, because I don’t like how the built-in media manager stores images in subfolders by date. What I probably need to do is create a plugin to customize the upload location (using the upload_dir filter).
