TechGnome has built a “Blog This” bookmarklet that, when clicked, will popup a blog entry form, with the Title, and TrackBack URL prefilled with the web page’s title & URL. The body of the post will come pre-filled with a hyperlink to the page as well. Here is the link to the hack. Good job TechGnome!!

Just create a bookmark with the following as the link (only for Mozilla): The encoding in WP is messing things up, here is the link to the text file with the javascript bookmarklet. Once you have typed in or pasted code into a form somewhere on a <em>Mozilla page<⁄em>, clicking on this link will encode the elements on the form. The way it stands, it should encode < , >, \ and / It can be modified to encode everything in the ascii alphabet. 🙂 Have fun and let me know how it works out for you! Attribution: Original idea courtesy of ScriptyGoddess, Javascript “Textarea” hack to get around DOM selection problems courtesy of Steve Minutillo All I did was hack the code! 🙂 As per an email question from SouthernGal , I realize that I should have mentioned the way around Mozilla to actually make this a bookmarklet. So […]

I found a couple of other nice templates for WordPress. Reyman has one which looks very clean and polished and looks somewhat like the old B2 theme, just much more smooth. Check it out here and download it here. I have modified my personal blog template (again!) and now I have three columns, but the menus show up on the right on 2 different columns, kinda different and funky. Once the CSS code is done completely, with a browser window resize, the 2 menu columns with merge into one. Check it out here.

The latest Blogging Survey Results are out from BlogsearchEngine.com. Take a closer look. Some of the items are not very surprising (such as 52.3% of bloggers surveyed use Google’s Blogger as their blogging platform of choice) but this information can be used very creatively by the media and PR entities to exploit this growing phenomenon.

A WP user asked about the best way to restrict access to the WP directory (on the WordPress forums) and I posted an answer without realizing that I should have explained myself further. Dougal added his own post which, I thought, was really well put and deserved a mention. He explains the intricacies of securing WordPress and in the process, explains file/directory permissions for UN*X/Linux servers as well. Good, quick, relatively complete explanation. Here is the link to the discussion.

I had written this hack a long time ago, but considering the renewed interest, I wanted to make sure it was recorded. It make a small row of clickable smilies show up on top of box where you edit your post. Click on the smilie and it gets translated and put in the right place, no more guessing! Here is the link to the hack. *Edit* The hack has been fixed for use on comments which show up on the main page (without the use of 12_comments popup)

I have most of the work done for blogPost Beta 1.0. Here is a small list of features and bugs. #Features include (for now), posting to multiple blogs, comment and ping control, category control, –more– and –excerpt– modification ability. #Bugs: There are quite a few for now. I have not been able to test this on too many blog applications I know that the comments do not get blocked on MT, their documentation sucks If someone could get me an LJ code, I could test it on there Any others, let me know. Here is the download link to blogPost 1.0 Beta. Have fun! *Update* – A couple of bugfixes already. Comment and ping control should work for MT now (sorry Anil!) it was my Boo-Boo, not MTs fault!

Nice WordPress Hacks, this time from codegurl They include: The Date Since – displays the years, months, weeks, hours, minutes, and seconds since a post was added Auto Comment Plugger – displays the commenters from the post before or the current post Blog Stats – displays useful blog statistics (partially finished) Nicer Archives – displays the archives in a neat organized fashion Get Stats function – simple function for stats