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Engagingly quirky

David — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:24:29 +0000

WordPress 2.7.1 has a wonderful quirk of immediately redirecting the “new post” page to a page that appears to just be the row of buttons from above the editor.

It’s probably a Firefox 3.1 quirk. But it’s still annoying.

del.icio.us plus 1.1

David — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:18:51 +0000

New version of my del.icio.us widget.

The only real change is that it now allows for multiple instances of the widget. So you can have one showing the ‘food’ tag, and the other showing the ‘yodeling’ tag, say.

Strange incompleteness

David — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:51:27 +0000

WordPress‘s API documentation is weirdly incomplete.

The official function reference, for instance, was last updated for WordPress 2.1, and we’re now on 2.5.

This is making updating that widget I wrote be more of a hassle than I expected.

del.icio.us widget

David — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:21:45 +0000

I couldn’t find a WordPress widget that produced output similar to del.icio.us’s linkrolls script. (You can just put their script into a Text widget, but its output doesn’t always mesh well with WordPress themes — it hardcodes h2s, and so forth.)

The Automattic example widget came close, but was a bit lacking on the customization front.

del.icio.us for WordPress also came close, but I disagree with having your server fetch the RSS feed, instead of using the perfectly good JSON API.

So I took the Automattic widget, hacked some extra features into it, made it configurable, and you can now see it in my sidebar. Well, footer currently. It’s a theme thing.

If you want it yourself, here’s the link: del.icio.us plus

Edit on 2008-03-27: This is now in the wordpress.org plugins repository.
Edit on 2008-04-16: Version 1.1 released, granting multiple widget instances.

Code Markup plugin

David — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:20:58 +0000

As one naturally does, I noticed that my blog wasn’t validating. It turned out that I’d forgotten to escape the << in the Ruby on Rails PDFs example.

So I installed Code Markup, a plugin that does all that escaping for me when it notices a block.


It seems to Just Work, and lets me skip having to write < all the damn time.



Three gigabytes free…ish
David — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:12:54 +0000

WordPress.com announced yesterday that all users get three gigabytes of upload space for free.  This is a teensy upgrade from 50MB.
This seems to be primarily for psychological reasons, because there’s a big fat * after the upgrade.
The footnote is that Mr. Mullenweg mentions in this post that “[y]ou still need a space upgrade to upload certain file types, like movies”, and later in the comments that “[y]ou still need a space upgrade to be able to upload MP3s”.  So you still have to pay them if you plan to do anything significant with their bandwidth.  (Not sure where they stand on humongous zip files, or similar.)
Not that this is wrong of them.  It rings a bit of being an arbitrarily large number chosen for PR reasons, but that’s understandable.
The 3 gig limit is very reassuring to an important segment of the blogoratispheroidalmass.  Specifically, the people without their own hosting, who want to be able to post their photos on their blog and not worry about having to trim out old ones after a few months.
50MB = 300-500 decent quality JPEGs of photos.  It’s easy to imagine that being a problem after a short while.  3 gigs… not so much.