I am actively seeking a couple of people to work with me on the WuhWuh project. At least one person (more preferable) to help with the documentation and one person to help me with the code. A word of warning for everyone interested in working with me. I am a stickler for thoroughness and I hate to work with people that do not keep their promises. That being said, I also do not really care how long it takes you to do something as long as you finish it within the time you decided on at the beginning of the project. Here is what I am looking to achieve in terms of documentation: 1) We need an exhaustive run down of each hack implemented (you will have the list of hacks) including the url, original author, functions used, how to tweak the functions and where the function is added into […]

I have long had a pet peeve with forums and discussion boards. People simply do not pay attention!! There are a few simple rules that should be adhered to with every forum/BB posting (if you want your questions looked at/answered) Numero Uno: Please search the forum first to see if your question has already been answered. Many people that want to answer your question will simply ignore it if your question has been answered succintly and the problem solved in the recent past. Almost every (caveat) forum has a stupid search button for just that purpose! The same questions appear over and over again, albeit with ridculous disclaimers like “Sorry if this is a repeat post, I was too lazy to look it up so I am posting again and again and again. Sorry again, please forgive me. I am new to all of this.” Who cares? It is common […]

I have put together a “hacked version” of WordPress 1.1 alpha and would like to get some feedback on it before I package it for release. Here is the link to “WuhWuh” version 0.1 (pronounced woo’aah woo’aah) 😉 Some of the prominent features include simple 3 step installation and a built in theme manager. Username for login: admin Password: password I have a long functional document (explaining all the hacks, functions and ways to use them as well as the changelog and other explanations) along with a wish list and upcoming enhancements. If this does catch on, expect a seperate set of forums (to prevent confusion the original WP forums) and a release cycle of once per major release of WordPress. And ummm…people…dont change the password! That is just stupid to do. It is my database, my server, my control. It just makes life a little more difficult for other […]

I wrote a little crawler which counts the number of WordPress blogs (among others such as blogger, .Text, BlogTool etc) that ping weblogs.com and Blogrolling.com recently updated list. Here is the link to the most updated stats. The crawler has just been running for a day and if your site is not in the list, please be patient and it will get listed in time. The crawler code is being tested and modified and the database might get emptied from time to time for code changes. However, it looks good for now and is a very good place to advertise the variety of sites that WordPress can handle. I am planning to add an XFN crawler when I get the chance. I will make the database available publicly (after you promise to NOT use it for nefarious purposes) once it reaches a 100,000 entries. Please let me know what you […]

This is a very interesting and useful wesbite from ScrtiptyGoddess It talks about the benefits, drawbacks and the tweaks of .htaccess This is a tool which MUST belong in the quiver of an educated and accomplished blogger! Here is the link to the wonderful article.

This tutorial explains the nuances of migrating from b2 or Cafelog to WordPress. Here is the link to the tutorial. It is very well done! The only question I have for him is….and you blog is in MT???

This information can be found in the WordPress Wiki but some people might find it useful to help them make up their mind about upgrades (or migrations) WordPress 1.0.1 Changelog: * Several improvements related to the handling of international characters. * “Future” blog posts should show up in the admin interface * b2 import * blogger import * Calendar day titles are only showing the last post, not all posts separated. * Calendar links to posts in the future * Change installed check to use a different table than options, probably categories * Check all importers * Comment Moderation setting values * comment out sending the unmodified header in rss/rdf feeds * comment_tags_allowed bug * Dublin Core in RSS feeds * edit-showposts.php? * Fix links-update-xml.php * get_links_list should put descriptions in title attribute * greymatter import * fixed import-b2.php errors * Make sure the bookmarklet works in Safari * Modify […]

Jeremy pointed out a method to ping Yahoo RSS crawler for Moveable Type blogs and he did a great job explaining it with pictures. So if you are using MT, check out his entry. I consequently wrote a little pinger for WordPress which does the same thing. Add this function to your my-hacks.php: // pings Yahoo.com RSS Crawler function pingYahoo($blog_ID = 1) { // original function by Dries Buytaert for Drupal global $blogname,$siteurl,$blogfilename; if ((!(($blogname==”my weblog”) && ($siteurl==”http://example.com”) && ($blogfilename==”wp.php”))) && (!preg_match(“/localhost\//”,$siteurl))) { $client = new xmlrpc_client(“/RPC2”, “api.my.yahoo.com”, 80); $message = new xmlrpcmsg(“weblogUpdates.ping”, array(new xmlrpcval($blogname), new xmlrpcval($siteurl.”/”.$blogfilename))); $result = $client->send($message); if (!$result || $result->faultCode()) { return false; } return true; } else { return false; } } Find these lines in your post.php (inside wp-admin folder) : pingWeblogs($blog_ID); pingBlogs($blog_ID); And add this right after that: pingYahoo($blog_ID); All done and pingin!

Here is the link to the moblog script. 1) Upload this file to the root of your blog (rename it to sprint.php) and put in the username and password of your blog in the required places within sprint.php. 2) Setup your email blogging parameters within WordPress. Your security is going to be the email address that your blog is supposed to check, so make it complicated (or something) 3) Send your blog an email (to the email address you specified above). Go to your blog URL and add the sprint.php at the end (on a browser) to test how well the works. e.g. http://www.yourwebserver.com/wordpressdirectory/sprint.php This should give you a very good understanding of what happens. If things work, you should see an entry in your blog with just that picture. 4) Now to make this automated, add a cron script to your webserver so this file gets run every so […]