I got hooked onto the Waypath idea once I saw how it worked. The creators had hacked together a plug-in for MT and Radio. I wanted one for WP and B2. So here it is. Look at the hack code and instructions. In simple words, this hack implements a pre-determined number of unsolicited trackbacks from the world of blogs on your post topic. Very cool way to surf the blogosphere! Imagine writing about the weaknesses of Microsoft RPC and getting 10 related entries from other blogs on the same topic. Information aggregation that is useful! See how it works at Mindful Musings Click on a post to get the post and related entries. Very configurable. Uses php XML-RPC. Now with XHTML 1.0 Strict links which open a new window. Look at this change.

I have made some changes to the WordPress Backup procedure and added the Restore script to it. Now you have the ability to backup your MySql database and download it locally, backup your WordPress folder and download it locally, and restore your MySql database, all from the comfort of a web interface (which can be integerated into the WP admin interface). There is added password protection thrown in as well. I had the nasty fortune of using my own backup and restore script this morning which forced me to code some bugfixes and finally emerged into a completely different way of backing up and restoring. Please download the new version from the same link. This has not been tested on a Windows web server (and I am not sure if the applications that I use are present in a Windows/MySql installation, but I need some feedback) Please let me know […]

Here is a question I came across at the WordPress forums: Let’s say there’s an errant link on my site (ex: /index.php?cat=99, where there’s no such category) Currently, it just returns the main template with the content area blank. Is there a way to have it display a custom message? Not a custom 404 message…that I can do for my site. I’m talking about when there’s an invalid string in WP. Per my example, if there’s a link to /index.php?cat=99, index.php is a valid page (my WP template), so there is no 404 error. However, there’s no category 99 in my WP installation, so it returns an empty template (well, the template has everything it should, but the content area is blank.) Go ahead, try it on you own site: enter a non-existant cat and see what happens. Now, try it again here on the WP site. Try this: http://wordpress.org/index.php?cat=99. […]

A lot of people have been looking for an easy way to make daily backups of their WP Mysql database. Rather than re-inventing the wheel, I modified an existing MySql Backup script to work from inside the admin page in WordPress using the WordPress variables. Click on the link below to download the zip file with the installation instructions. It is very simple to install and lets you download the backup files to your local computer as well. I hope someone finds this useful. Please post comments, questions and suggestions. Peace. Download the Backup Zip File

I now have a modification of my moblog script which lets a SprintPCS Vision customer moblog directly from their phone to WordPress 0.72 using email blogging. If anyone is interested in this, please email me or leave a message on here. I have a couple of moblog posts setup on Mindful Musings. Peace

I have the beginnings of a moblog hack for WordPress 0.72 for which I need some beta testers. My mobile phone is not operational yet and I have no real way of testing this. Just a word of warning: THIS IS BUGGY CODE, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY FAILURE. BACKUP EVERYTHING. So here we go… Download this file http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/b2mailtest.phps and rename it to b2mailtest.php. Put it in your wordpress folder and follow the instructions for setting up email blogging for WordPress. Remember to setup a cron job with the new b2mailtest.php and NOT the old b2mail.php file. Create a folder called tmp inside your WordPress folder and make it writeable by your webserver. This hack emulates the settings from the main b2mail.php. Once you have email blogging setup, send an email to your blog with the same information as you would when you blog […]

This is the original hack from Dodo for b2, converted (the insides are completely different) to work well with WordPress 0.72. You can see it at work on my blog: http://dinki.mine.nu/weblog/index.php?p=429&more=1&c=1 Test it out, make lots of comments, see what you think. I have made the instructions as simple and lucid as possible. If you have any questions, post on here or email me. You might have to tweak your CSS to suit yourself. I have tested the installation in both IE and Moz and it looks all right. 😛 Let me know what you think! Here is the link to the hack Peace

I finally had the chance to finish the sticky posts hack for WordPress. Quite simple actually. It lets a blogger indefinitely leave a post on top of their WordPress blog. Here is the link to detailed instructions to install the hack. Let me know if there are any bugs!

Here is the list of WordPress hacks that I will be working on. Please comment or post an entry if you have more you would like to add or if you would like to work on a particular hack. 1) Blog This – Done – look at this post on TechGnome 2) Link This – Done – Look at this link in WP Forums 3) b2stats – Done – Look at this post WP forums 4) LJUpdate – Not done yet, will look into it 🙂 5) Threaded Comments – Done – Look at this link 6) Clickable smilies on the user posting page – Done – Look at this post on the WP forums. I would be interested to know if this works on Opera. 7) Send/print this page hacks – “Send this page” has been worked on . Printing is taken care of through the print CSS. So […]