My friend Bethany Soule, for whom I host a blog, recently asked me if there was a way to write entries using a client program instead of having to login to wordpress via the web interface. I pointed her to the xml-rpc page in wordpress I had run across recently, and then decided to check it out for myself. Since I am on Linux, I looked at the Linux clients, but also wanted to try out a cross-platform option. QTM […] (Read more)

Finally getting around to releasing some more plugins. I started using the Fancy Archives plugin by Andrew Rader about the same time I started using his Fancy Categories plugin (maybe in the reverse order actually). I have been modifying it for some time now, and it seems appropriate to release it as a new plugin. The functionality is best described by simply looking at my archives list on this blog. The default wordpress archives list is a simple unordered list. […] (Read more)

I started using the Fancy Categories plugin by Andrew Rader about 6 or 8 months ago. I have been slowly modifying it for some time now, and it seems appropriate to release it as a new plugin. (Note that I thought that Andrew Rader disappeared as well, but I now have found him at his new home at void*. The functionality is best described by simply looking at my categories list on this blog. The default wordpress categories list is […] (Read more)

I recently started the FedDibblety house blog, documenting our home improvements to our new home in Indiana (which Clare’s parents built). I set up accounts for my wife Clare, her parents, Dave and Ellen, and my parents, Harold and Fran. Ellen, being a technology nut like myself, immediately jumped in writing posts about the house, and also had some feature requests. One of those features was to have the blog read in chronological order. Most blogs read in reverse chronological […] (Read more)

I recently downloaded the vimcolor plugin for wordpress so my code samples could look nice and spiffy, with the syntax highlighting I am accustomed to seeing. There were of course a few problems. The most notable was some path problems. It was trying to use these values: < ?php $in_file = tempnam($GLOBALS['conf']['file_directory_temp'], 'pl'); $out_file = tempnam($GLOBALS['conf']['file_directory_temp'], 'htm'); > I never saw any of these set in any of the configuration files for wordpress, so I just hardcoded in some values […] (Read more)