When I upgraded to WordPress 1.5, it broke the plugin I was using to post via email with. I’ve since upgraded to John Blade’s Email Hack from my old Keitai plugin. Now it will only post mail from a particular email address (no spam posted to my blog) and it will post pictures.
It’s pretty neat.
It’s always fun for bloggers to look in their website stats to find out how readers have found their webpage. Here are some of the search phrases people have used to get here in the past two months:
These guys fall under the category of “Dude, write your own paper.”
I’ve got a theme switcher dropdown on the sidebar now. The default themes need some tweaking, but I’ve got to go to work now. See y’all later!
UPDATE: I’ve tweaked the sidebar on default WordPress pages to match my default sidebar. Some of the plugins, such as the collapsing/expanding extended entries and comments, which require me to tweak the index file, have not been added yet. Maybe tomorrow.
Although I’ve got vespers tomorrow afternoon. Rats.
Anyways, in case you were wondering, I found the theme switching plug-in via Google here. Despite being an early beta, I find that it works perfectly. (Although I did have to tweak it just a little to get the dropdown box to center properly.)
WordPress is really some awesome software. I love it.
ANOTHER UPDATE: OK, all the plug-ins except for the spell checker and the comment previews are working in all 3 themes. Those’ll take longer to fix, and I’ve got to be up early tomorrow. Will probably fix tomorrow afternoon.
Well, several hours later, I think I’ve got it mostly working.
What’s the difference you ask?
Well, right now, to you… not a whole lot. Most of the updates do cool things for me. For example, changing and creating templates (now called “themes”) is much easier. The program also handles static pages better now; for an example, click the “Let Me Introduce Myself” link on the sidebar. Also, the spam controls are better.
It’s all pretty cool. But, here’s where I need some help: If you see anything that’s broken, please, please e-mail me so I can fix it.
Anyway’s it somehow got to be almost three in the morning, so I’ll see y’all later.
Hey, there’s a new version of WordPress out. I’m gonna try to install it. The site may go down for a while. Sorry.
Well, since I was up, I decided to add a couple of features to the comments section. First, you now have a separate preview and post buttons, for those times you feel hasty. OTOH, when you’re not feeling hasty, use the spell-checker to keep from looking dumb.
Lastly, I’ve thrown on some formatting buttons, which should make things easier for my less HTML literate readers.
Anyways, I really need to go to bed now. G’night.
Well, today, I had the dubious joy of getting my very first WordPress comment spam. Seven minutes later, I destroyed it, but I’ve been forced to activate some anti-spam measures.
Measure One: Any comment with more than two links in it will be sent to moderation. I’ll be notified of it by e-mail, and, after I approve it as non-spam, it’ll show up on the blog.
Measure Two: Also, any comment containing certain commonly-used spam words, like viagra and casino, will be moderated.
Measure Three: I’ve installed the No-Follow plug-in. Comment spam isn’t designed to get people to click on it; it’s designed to move the target page up in the Google rankings. The no-follow plug-in makes Google ignore the spammer’s links.
Hopefully, that’ll be enough. I’ve still got a few plug-ins I can try if that isn’t enough.
But if those fail, I’m going to have to resort to some well-placed hacks.
And I don’t mean the programming kind.
OK, I promise to write something witty or insightful sometime soon. For now though, I’ve been putting more cool plug-ins into my blog. One of them makes extended entries much, much better, and to demonstrate, I’ll put the rest of this post in an extended entry. Don’t be shy, go ahead and click on the link.
As you can see from the post below, I can now blog-via-email. I’m using the Keitai plugin to do it, and it works much better than the built-in WordPress blog-by-email, which I never got to work.
I’ve also added a bank of smilies to click on for the comments page. And I’ve activated the politeifier plugin to convert swear words into asterisks.
Now, I should go do some homework or something.
As you may have noticed, just below my blogroll is a list of my five most recent comments to the blog. Thanks to this guy for writing the plugin.
I had a great idea: My own podcast. Each week I’d read each entry from the Carnival of the Capitalists and record for all the world to hear. I got everything together: I made the XML feed, set up a space on my server to host my mp3 files, and even created a cool webpage for it. This afternoon, I began reading the posts, editing them with Audacity, and getting them to an acceptable level of quality, largely by eliminating the places where I tripped over my own words. Four entries in, I look at the clock: An hour and twenty minutes has passed by. There are more than 30 entries in this weeks Carnival. At this rate, it will take me something like 39 hours to read and edit every entry.
No. Unless I can figure out a way to get a full-time salary out of this thing, there’s no way I can afford to spend 39 hours a week on the idea. No. No.
But, here’s an idea: If everyone posting to the Carnival of the Capitalists would record an mp3 of themselves reading their posts, then one person could assemble them all into a single podcast. It’s really easy to set one up using Feedburner. In fact, I’d be willing to set up the feed myself; I’ll have to email Jay Solo, who apparently keeps track of the CotC’s hosts and gets the entries, about getting this idea together.
Wow! It’s great not having to rebuild my website anymore. And I see an option to email entries to the blog, which I was never able to figure out with Movable Type.
Instead of importing all my entries from MT into WordPress, I’ve decided to keep all the old entries in the Movable Type archive folders to prevent link rot. That’s why there are two search boxes instead of just one on the sidebar.
By the way, it looks a little better in FireFox than it does in Internet Explorer.
Anyways, chances are that I’ve missed something in setting up the template, although I spent all day on it. If you see anything, let me know.
As soon as I can get it looking right, I’ll (probably) be moving from Movable Type to Wordpress. This is actually just a test of the WordPress trackback function. Hopefully, it will work.
Anywho: If you want to see the work in progress, click here.
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