I have received a couple of requests for custom versions of my nicer archives. Without revealing my suitors, I will try to get the code out to everyone. This version of my “Nicer Archives” allows the removal of one category from all of the archives (such as photomatt’s asides) and the default view only lists archives from the present month. The example archives are here: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/narchives101.php The source can be downloaded here: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/narchives101.phps The installation instructions are included at the top of the file above. I am entertaining a couple of other requests for these archives. If you have suggestions or would like a quick modification, please let me know!

After a spirited IRC discussion, I decided to write a comment spam killing plugin. If you use it, ANY comment flagged for moderation will be deleted, w/o user intervention. No file modifications are needed, just drop into plugins and activate. Use with caution, this is weapons grade material. Read my blog post about it (recommended), visit the project page, or download the .zip file.

Christopher Schmidt has published an easy way to import all of your LiveJournal Entries into WordPress. Once they are imported, you can keep them all synced by using my autoupdate hack. 🙂 Here is the link to the tutorial. http://lj.crschmidt.net/import-wordpress.txt

If you have recently switched from Movable Type to WordPress, you might be missing your MT style titles. I saw a really nice plug-in in the forums which does just that. It cleans your post titles to make them look like MT by putting ‘_’ instead ‘-‘, killing the dots on decimal numbers and sanitizing non-english characters. There is great support for non-english languages built into this plugin. Find more information on the WordPress fora.

BlindMuse from the WordPress fora has written a word count add-on for WP. This plug-in: that not only shows how many words are in the entire post, not just what is current on display. The script will also count how many total images are the post and display that count as well More information here at BlindMuse’s How-to-WordCount section

The Location Manger is a utility add-on for WordPress 1.2, that allows you to save latitude and longitude pairs with a name, url, and a comment. You can access your saved locations from the advanced editing page (on basic editing WP uses the default lat/lon as usual). This hack adds a “Location” panel to the admin interface and a dropdown menu to edit-form-advanced.php. As a technology demonstration, it’s object-oriented, with the HTML output done from inside the class. I’ve uploaded a screenshots of the Location panel and and editing interface for your viewing pleasure. You can download the .zip file from my projects page, and leave comments & bug reports on this blog entry.

For everyone having problems with the WordPress to LiveJournal hack, I have found a solution thanks to testing from Kitten and Cytoplas (from #Wordpress). Please download the following file: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/class-xmlrpc.phps rename it to class-xmlrpc.php and replace the original found in the wp-includes folder of your blog. This file has a bug from WordPress. You can download the new instructions from here: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/ljautoupdate12.txt By popular request, this lot as a zip file: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/lj2wp.zip

This modification allows blog authors to assign a minimum user level required to view each post. The default value is zero (retroactively applied to all existing posts), which means anyone can see the post.

I redid and reworked the Nicer Archives for WordPress. The archives list can be sorted by date and category and filtered by author and year. All of the functions, as far as I tested, are working. The example archives are here: http://mindfulmusings.net/weblog/narchives.php Download php file from here: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/narchives.phps The install is really simple. Just rename the downloaded file to narchives.php and copy it to the root of your blog and create a link from your index.php.