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Movable Type redirect script for WordPress

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March 31st, 2004
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If you have been wanting to import your entries from Movable Type into WordPress so that you can switch, but have been worried about losing your hits from Google and or other linkage, look no further! The venerable Alex King has written and posted a script/tutorial which does just what you are looking for! You can find the script here. He encourages people to use the script to build templates and other material as they please. So if you or a friend have been wanting to switch, but have used this excuse, get crackin! Find a way to thank Alex if you do use his script.

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CODE: Down And Dirty Page Page Timing In PHP

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March 30th, 2004
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There are times when you’re working on a project and you need to test a page’s load overhead. For instance, if you have a lot of database calls or are using some crazy regex kung fu. These two little snippets of PHP code will give you a start to finish execution time of the page you’re loading up. Put the first one at the very top and the second one at the very bottom and load it up. When the page is finished rendering, just view source and you can see the execution time in the HTML comment. You can remove the comment if you want it to echo straight to your page. If you leave it in the comments, you can deploy this in a production page and monitor the load times whenever you feel like it. This goes at the top: <?php ereg(“(\.[0-9]+) ([0-9]+)”,microtime(),$time); $starttime = doubleval($time[1])+doubleval($time[2]); ?> […]

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How to Increase Your ReaderShip…

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March 30th, 2004
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Dave Pollard explains “Top 5 ways to improve your blog” and “Top 5 ways to attract more attention to it”. Makes some very interesting points. Find the article at: http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2004/03/23.html#a674

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WordPress LinkBlog Hack

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March 29th, 2004
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WordPress Hack

As posted on the forums, from Markku here are the details of the LinkBlog hack. It is a very cool idea and I use a rudimentary linkblog on my own blog. This one, however, is a lot more powerful, configurable and deserves some attention. Here is the writeup from markku wp-recent-links is a hack (soon a plugin?) for adding a links blog to your WordPress-powered site, similar to kottke.org’s remaindered links. Compared to WordPress’ included links manager, this plugin allows you to have a separate archives page for your links blog, including monthly archives. You can see it in action on my site, it is labeled “Recent Links” on my sidebar, with its own archive page. Here is the link to the hack.

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WordPress Gallery of Sorts

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March 26th, 2004
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WordPress Hack

I really hate having to use a different gallery program for my pictures and wanted to write something which would work directly from inside WordPress without having to mess with much (and would look good). I rewrote a hack which allows you to upload pictures to your blog so you could upload a bunch of pictures using FTP, specify the folder you uploaded everything to and then have the thumbnails for all those pictures show up in your blog post (with shadows even!) with clickable thumbnails. You might need to wrestle with the CSS a little bit to get it to look right with your blog. Here is a link to the hack: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/wpgallery.zip

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Another Windows Blog Posting Application

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March 26th, 2004
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I found out about BlogJet while I was flying from New Jersey to Detroit yesterday. It looks like it could have a lot of potential and is still free. You can find out more about it at http://www.blogjet.com Here are some of the listed features for this new public beta: * Multiple categories support. * Quick test of FTP settings. * pMachine support. * “Delete Draft files after posting” option in settings. * New keyboard shortcuts: – Ctrl+Tab – switch between Normal/Code view. – Ctrl+M – indent – Ctrl+Alt+M – outdent – Ctrl+Shift+N – numbering – Ctrl+Shift+L – bullet style – Ctrl+Shift+I – insert image – Ctrl+Shift+V – attach voice – Alt+D – select text in Title bar – F5 – change account Currently BlogJet (Version 1.0.0.16 BETA) supports the following blog services: Blogger b2 .Text TypePad MovableType Blogware LiveJournal DeadJournal DasBlog So, since it is still free, and looks […]

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Free RSS reader for Internet Explorer

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March 25th, 2004
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I came across this site on my own little box of ads (though I did not click on it, just typed in the URL). There is a new Internet Explorer RSS plug-in called “Pluck”. It is available at http://www.pluck.com and is free to download and use (for now). There are some interesting and cool features and some which are just lacking. I like the fresh interface, but found to difficult to add feeds. I still like the book style reader pane of Feeddemon much more, though Pluck is free and FeedDemon is not. There is no ATOM support (yet) in Pluck. The reader itself is VERY basic, giving you the ability to add, browse and group feeds. No Frills at all. I think this might be a good alternative to paying for a Feed Reader. Please leave your thoughts on this software if you have used it or plan to […]

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WordPress Javascript Quicktags

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March 24th, 2004
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[EDIT] This has been updated with a fix for Mozilla where the textarea used to jump to the top on addition of a tag. The updated script is in the same file, and some instructions have been added. I tweaked, redid and added some Javascript quicktags in WordPress. Quicktags, for those that are unaware, are those small little buttons above the post content form in your admin interface. Some of the features added include: Automatic CSS dropshadows for images Automatic CSS dropshadows for text Capitalization (can be used for many purposes) Small size and large sized text Left or right floating pictures and text etc. You can see an example of the stuff this is capable of here: http://mindfulmusings.net/weblog/2003/5/24/this-is-another-test/ To install this hack, download this file. Unzip the contents on your computer. Copy the images directory to the root of your WordPress folder. Rename quicktags.txt (in the zip) as quicktags.js. […]

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Convert your LiveJournal, DeadJournal, WordPress blog to PDF format

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March 21st, 2004
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I was helping someone finish writing a script on IRC and I think they have come up with something very cool. They provide a (mostly free) service which allows a LiveJournal, DeadJournal and now WordPress blogger to build a nice PDF page of their whole blog. He calls it LjBook and you can find more information about the features and install at http://www.ljbook.com/. Just like this blog and many others out there, it is a free service that is supported by its users. So if you use his work, please leave a small donation. For WordPress users: http://www.ljbook.com/wordpress.php PS: I dont know how useful it will be to me, but the PDF files are very well formatted and look very cool!

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