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steve — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:00:54 +0000

I noticed last night that there was a problem with comment posting (damn this alpha software) – however, there was a fix in the nightly so I’ve updated my release and hopefully it’s fixed.Ã‚Â I suppose I’ll know when I comment on this post.Ã‚Â

Now Playing

steve — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 03:42:39 +0000

I am in the process of hacking up the "Now Reading" plugin from Roblog into a "Now Playing" plugin. And for some reason I couldn't get the library links to work. So after a bit of messing around it seems I've figured it out. I realized that the actual links to the library were working just the rewriting rules weren't. That lead me to 'wp-includes/rewrite.php'. Around line 86 you should see 'var $use_verbose_rules = false;' what I did was change 'false' to 'true'. After uploading the change to my server I went to the WordPress control panel and updated my permalink settings. Then like magic everything works like it should. I'm going to mess around with the script some more as time permits who knows maybe I'll release my hack in the near future…

Image Uploading and WordPress

steve — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 20:32:29 +0000

I was having some issues with WordPress and the image uploading function, every time I uploaded an image I'd get an error telling me that the thumbnail wasn't found. Taking a look at the code in wp-admin/admin-functions.php (starting at line 750 or so) made me realize that I had a similar error on this server when trying out PixelPost. And the fix was exactly the same.

I just checked and there is a fix up on Trac so it should be good to go with the next release. But, if you need to fix it now open up admin-functions.php and look for (around line 750 or so):

$thumbpath = str_replace(basename($file), $thumb, $file);

just after it insert:

touch("$thumbpath");

And you should be all set.

Release 2.0.1

steve — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:34:20 +0000

WordPress 2.0.1 was released the other day – I’ve already updated the site from the nightly code.Ã‚Â Just before the release I started going through Trac to see if I could fix any of the bugs or what not that people had found.Ã‚Â I submitted a couple diffs for some of the minor issues – not for 2.0.1 but for the eventual 2.1 release.Ã‚Â By no means spectacular but, every little bit helps I guess.Ã‚Â Besides it gives me some good PHP practice.Ã‚Â I’m going to follow the Trac and the wp-hackers mailing list as I have time – to see if I can continue to contribute.

I’ve got a couple of ideas in the works for the site – hopefully I’ll have some news posted soon.

Moving Day

steve — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:27:07 +0000

I think I am going to move the site over to WordPress 2.0. In fact I think I might make the change tonight. I’m running a full backup on the site right now – just in case. Yesterday, I spent a little while writing a small PHP script which takes posts from the old database and moves them into the WordPress tables in the correct format, so moving the post over is no problem. I started to mod the default theme to be more to my liking but I still have quite a way to go before it’s ‘perfect’. That reminds me I need to mod WordPress to use my smilies.

I also have PixelPost installed and after a couple of false starts (due to conflicting PHP versions and code problems) got it to work ok.

Well, I’m going to eat some dinner. Then I think I’ll start the move…