Archive for the ‘WordPress’ Category.
10th May 2005, 09:02 am
So, they’ve released version 1.5.1 of [WordPress][]. Better go get it while it’s hot!
I’ve been using the [SVN][] version of WordPress ever since I lunched mgeisler.net and
I like it. So far I haven’t had any of the previous spam problems with this version for
example, which is very nice!
So far the new version has been downloaded 2,653 times — the last version was
downloaded an astonishing 207,981 times! Now that’s many…! Go help them
bring that number up!
4th May 2005, 10:32 pm
I’ve just installed a rather cool plugin: Brian’s Threaded Comments, which makes it possible to reply to a specific comment. Go try it out!
4th May 2005, 09:47 pm
With this shiny new version of WordPress that I’m using here at mgeisler.net I’m suddenly getting emails whenever somebody makes a comment to one of my posts. That’s cool — this feature never worked on my old site.
At first I was a bit puzzled because the emails indicated that some of the comments were put on hold for moderation, for no apparent reason. A quick look at the options in WordPress explained this: comments are only let through without moderation if the owner has an previously approved comment. So the first time you submit a comment you’ll have to wait for me to approve it — after that your comments should go through automatically. As always, let me know if you have any problems.
2nd May 2005, 05:55 pm
I’ve been looking on how to convert my legacy news posts from their PhpWiki format into Markdown so that I can re-publish them here in WordPress. Extracting the text of the wiki-pages and turning them into posts in WordPress is not hard — that’s more or less just a matter of selecting them from one table and inserting them into another.
But converting the wiki markup is harder — I guess that the only thing that can really read the PhpWiki wiki markup is PhpWiki itself, which also kind of makes sence… :-) The problem is that the parser in PhpWiki is quite advanced — it’s not just a dumb line-by-line parser — and I don’t know yet if I can easily use it without having to get the whole PhpWiki system going.
In the end I probably end up doing a quick-and-dirty conversion followed by a manual cleanup sweep through the about 100 old posts. You’ll know when the posts are here by the number of archive links to the right — I should really make them into a select box or something like that…
1st May 2005, 12:08 pm
While moving to mgeisler.net I’ve taken the opportunity to clean my site up: I’ve removed some duplicated images, converted GIF images into the much more pleasing PNG format (except for some smilies distributed with WordPress — I didn’t want to mess to much with the installation, it’s only going to give me problems when I update it later…) and created pages for the Danish stuff which I have available for download.
I hope to be able to convert the missing news from the old PhpWiki site some day, but probably not this weekend though — I also have to do a little bit of work for the ETH :-)
For updating my site I’m now using an excellent tool called sitecopy. With this I can easily and very quickly maintain mgeisler.net as a mirror of the files placed locally on my computer. This is of course done in a secure way using SFTP — it’s soo cool to have a SSH login on your webserver, for there are so many things that suddenly becomes much easier and faster.