Ever since Geoff wrote the small script to backup a WordPress installation automatically, I have wanted to make his script email me with the backups once they are done. So I modified the original script to email a given address with the backup files (the backup files are deleted from the server once the email is sent) I ran into some problems while running the script on my own server because of the sheer size of the backups. I rewrote it to FTP the backups to another server to prevent killing my mail server. However, smaller installations (anything less than 500 megs) would benefit from the email backup and I decided to release the code. You can download the script from here, copy it to a location on your drive that would allow execution, give it execute permissions (chmod 755 backupwp.sh) and then write a small cron entry that runs […]

Ping-O-Matic Interface Praise: The Man in Blue praises the Ping-O-Matic interface. In addition to a valuable service, it is very accessible too!

Blogging Scene in India: Dina Mehta (meh’eh’ta) writes on the growing blogging scene in India. The article is short and sweet but gives a good glimpse into where and how blogging is becoming popular in the subcontinent. There is a buzz about blogs in the Indian traditional media today

Smart Archives for WordPress 1.5: If you were looking for an alternative to my Nicer Archives for WordPress, Smart Archives does the job. Check out the example archives here.

This blog has been filtered by Websense as being a restricted site because apparently, weblogtoolscollection.com falls under the category of “Games” (?!?!). Your organization’s Internet use policy restricts access to this web page at this time. Reason: The Websense category “Games” is filtered. Anyone know how I can get in touch with these people to explain to them that blogging and gaming are not the one and same? Their website is more than convoluted and there is no simple way to tell them that their filter(s) might be misfiring. [EDIT] Seems to be fixed now. If you run into futher problems, please let me know.

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WP 1.5 Plugin: Jabberbot: Wow. Incredible what a robust plugin architecture will prompt people to put together. If you ever, I repeat, ever in your laziest of dreams, wanted to post to your WordPress blog through a Jabber based IM client, this plugin enables that functionality.

WP Backup Shell Script After Photomatt’s recent calls for backup, I am going to have to use Geoff’s excellent backup scripts. I might modify them to send me an email with the files as attachments and setup a cron builder to task it every sunday. Add this to tons of stuff to do this weekend! If people are interested in the email part, release the script.